Re: [OMPI users] Open-MPI maffinity policy

2011-07-07 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jul 7, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Qasim Ali wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Thanks for following up. I have a question to clear things. > > 1. If I do not specify any affinity in mpirun, what memory allocation policy > is used by default? None. > a. When it is not compiled with libnuma > b. when compiled wi

Re: [OMPI users] Open-MPI maffinity policy

2011-07-02 Thread Qasim Ali
Hi Jeff, Thanks for following up. I have a question to clear things. 1. If I do not specify any affinity in mpirun, what memory allocation policy is used by default? a. When it is not compiled with libnuma b. when compiled with libnuma BTW What do you mean by "internal memory" in OMPI? On

Re: [OMPI users] Open-MPI maffinity policy

2011-07-02 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Libnuma will be used automatically if you use a paffonity setting. But note that it only applies to internal memory in OMPI - I don't remember the version offhand, but late in the 1.5 series we set the general affinity policy for all memory (possibly the unreleased 1.5.4?). Sent from my phone

[OMPI users] Open-MPI maffinity policy

2011-06-30 Thread Qasim Ali
Hi folks, I installed open-mpi with the libnuma library using the --with-libnuma. Everything installed fine. When I do ./ompi_info |grep maffinity MCA maffinity: first_use (MCA v2.0, API v2.0, Component v1.4.2) MCA maffinity: libnuma (MCA v2.0, API v2.0, Component v1.4.2) I