Re: [OMPI users] on-the-fly nodes liberation

2009-03-09 Thread Marcia Cristina Cera
In fact I am running my dynamic or malleable MPI application as a single job, which is able to increase and decrease its amount of nodes/processors at runtime. I am using the OAR resource manager to launch and provide resource availability information to the application. My question concern in kn

Re: [OMPI users] on-the-fly nodes liberation

2009-03-09 Thread Reuti
Hi, Am 09.03.2009 um 13:28 schrieb Marcia Cristina Cera: May I sign one orted daemon to finish its execution on-the-fly? Context: I intend to use OpenMPI in a dynamic resource environment as I did with LAM/MPI helped by lamgrow and lamshrink commands. To perform grow operations (increase t

Re: [OMPI users] on-the-fly nodes liberation

2009-03-09 Thread Ralph Castain
I'm afraid not - once started, the orted must stay alive until mpirun terminates. The problem is that the orteds are used to route messages, and there is currently no way to remove an orted without breaking this network. I know people are investigating this possibility in support of fault

[OMPI users] on-the-fly nodes liberation

2009-03-09 Thread Marcia Cristina Cera
Hi, May I sign one orted daemon to finish its execution on-the-fly? Context: I intend to use OpenMPI in a dynamic resource environment as I did with LAM/MPI helped by lamgrow and lamshrink commands. To perform grow operations (increase the amount of nodes/resources on-the-fly) OpenMPI enable an