Re: [OMPI users] Number of processes and number of the cores.

2007-10-24 Thread Jeff Squyres
We don't really have this kind of fine-grained processor affinity control in Open MPI yet. Is there a reason you want to oversubscribe cores this way? Open MPI assumes that each process should be as aggressive as possible in terms of performance -- spinning heavily until progress can be ma

Re: [OMPI users] Number of processes and number of the cores.

2007-10-23 Thread Prasun Ratn
I assumed you meant processes on a host, but I noticed that you wrote "cores". I'm not sure what the answer is if you really meant cores. I run different number of processes per "node" using mpirun -hostfile=hosts , where hosts file contains: host0 slots=5 host1 slots=5 host2 slots=5 host

Re: [OMPI users] Number of processes and number of the cores.

2007-10-23 Thread Siamak Riahi
Thanks for the answer. I have been using LAM MPI. I'm using FDS (Fire Dynamic Simulator) and in my model I have 7 threads and want to tie them to two cores which means I don't want the 7 threads to use all four cores on the cluster that we have. Have you done some thing similar to this? Thanks, S

Re: [OMPI users] Number of processes and number of the cores.

2007-10-23 Thread Prasun Ratn
I do this using the hostfile. There might be a more sophisticated way too. Siamak Riahi wrote: I have a question about using the open mpi. I want to tie "N" number of processes to one core and "M" number of processes to another core. I want to know if open mpi is capable of doing that. Tha

[OMPI users] Number of processes and number of the cores.

2007-10-23 Thread Siamak Riahi
I have a question about using the open mpi. I want to tie "N" number of processes to one core and "M" number of processes to another core. I want to know if open mpi is capable of doing that. Thanks, Siamak