Re: [OMPI users] Question on MPI_Comm_spawn timing

2016-04-05 Thread Emani, Murali
.org>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Question on MPI_Comm_spawn timing I honestly don’t think anyone has been concerned about the speed of MPI_Comm_spawn, and so there hasn’t been any effort made to optimize it On Apr 3, 2016, at 2:52 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet mailto:gilles.gouaillar..

Re: [OMPI users] Question on MPI_Comm_spawn timing

2016-04-03 Thread Ralph Castain
I honestly don’t think anyone has been concerned about the speed of MPI_Comm_spawn, and so there hasn’t been any effort made to optimize it > On Apr 3, 2016, at 2:52 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet > wrote: > > Hi, > > performance of MPI_Comm_spawn in the v1.8/v1.10 series is known to be poor, > es

Re: [OMPI users] Question on MPI_Comm_spawn timing

2016-04-03 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Hi, performance of MPI_Comm_spawn in the v1.8/v1.10 series is known to be poor, especially compared to v1.6 generally speaking, I cannot recommend v1.6 since it is no more maintained. that being said, if performance is critical, you might want to give it a try. I did not run any performance meas

[OMPI users] Question on MPI_Comm_spawn timing

2016-04-03 Thread Emani, Murali
Hi all, I am trying to evaluate the time taken for MPI_Comm_spawn operation in the latest version of OpenMPI. Here a parent communicator (all processes, not just the root) spawns one new child process (separate executable). The code I¹m executing is main(){ { Š.. // MPI initialization Š.. start1