[OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-13 Thread Warner Yuen
. Warner Yuen Scientific Computing Consulting Engineer Apple, Inc. email: wy...@apple.com On Jul 11, 2009, at 9:00 AM, users-requ...@open-mpi.org wrote: -- Message: 3 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:56:08 -0700 From: Klymak Jody Subject: [OMPI users] Xgrid and

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-12 Thread Ralph Castain
On Jul 12, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Klymak Jody wrote: Hi Ralph, On 12-Jul-09, at 4:07 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: Assuming that Scoreboard is appropriately licensed (i.e., is not licensed under GPL, but preferably something like FreeBSD), and that it has an accessible API, then we can link against

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-12 Thread Klymak Jody
Hi Ralph, On 12-Jul-09, at 4:07 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: Assuming that Scoreboard is appropriately licensed (i.e., is not licensed under GPL, but preferably something like FreeBSD), and that it has an accessible API, then we can link against it when in that environment and interact any way

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-12 Thread Ralph Castain
On Jul 11, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Klymak Jody wrote: Hi Vitorio, On 11-Jul-09, at 8:40 PM, Luis Vitorio Cargnini wrote: did you saw that, maybe, just maybe using: xserve01.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve02.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve03.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve04.local slots=8 max-s

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-12 Thread Klymak Jody
Hi Vitorio, On 11-Jul-09, at 8:40 PM, Luis Vitorio Cargnini wrote: did you saw that, maybe, just maybe using: xserve01.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve02.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve03.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve04.local slots=8 max-slots=8 it can set the number of process specificall

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-11 Thread Luis Vitorio Cargnini
did you saw that, maybe, just maybe using: xserve01.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve02.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve03.local slots=8 max-slots=8 xserve04.local slots=8 max-slots=8 it can set the number of process specifically for each node, the "slots" does this setting the configuration of

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-11 Thread Klymak Jody
If anyone else is using xgrid, there is a mechanism to limit the processes per machine: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.xgrid.agent MaximumTaskCount 8 on each of the nodes and then restarting xgrid tells the controller to only send 8 processes to that node. For now tha

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-11 Thread Ralph Castain
Looking at the code, you are correct in that the Xgrid launcher is ignoring hostfiles. I'll have to look at it to determine how to correct that situation - I didn't write that code, nor do I have a way to test any changes I might make to it. For now, though, if you add --bynode to your comm

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-11 Thread Klymak Jody
Hi Vitorio, Thanks for getting back to me! My hostfile is xserve01.local max-slots=8 xserve02.local max-slots=8 xserve03.local max-slots=8 xserve04.local max-slots=8 I've now checked, and this seems to work fine just using ssh. i.e. if I turn off the Xgrid queue manager I can submit jobs ma

Re: [OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-11 Thread Luis Vitorio Cargnini
Hi, So you have 4 nodes each one with 2 processors, each processor 4-core - quad-core. So you have capacity for 32 process in parallel. I think that only using the hostfile is enough is how I use. If you to specify a specific host or a different sequence, the mpirun will obey the host sequ

[OMPI users] Xgrid and choosing agents...

2009-07-11 Thread Klymak Jody
Hi all, Sorry in advance if these are naive questions - I'm not experienced in running a grid... I'm using openMPI on 4 duo Quad-core Xeon xserves. The 8 cores mimic 16 cores and show up in xgrid as each agent having 16 processors. However, the processing speed goes down as the used pr