Re: [OMPI users] multiple threads synchronization with Openmpi

2007-08-10 Thread George Bosilca
MPI is process based and not thread based. So there is no way in MPI to synchronize several threads. Moreover, all threads in a process will return the same rank [as you noticed]. Synchronizations internal to a process have to be done outside MPI. Any threading library, such as pthread libr

[OMPI users] multiple threads synchronization with Openmpi

2007-08-10 Thread Yuan, Huapeng
Hi, Can I use openmpi API like MPI_Reduce or MPI_Gather to synchronize multiple theads in a process? In my test in redhat linux, MPI_Comm_rank return 0 for all threads in the same process. If I want to use the MPI functions like MPI_Reduce or MPI_Gather, the rank number shoule be different