Re: [OMPI users] sm btl choices

2010-03-01 Thread Ralph Castain
On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:04 AM, David Turner wrote: > Hi Ralph, > >> Which version of OMPI are you using? We know that the 1.2 series was >> unreliable about removing the session directories, but 1.3 and above appear >> to be quite good about it. If you are having problems with the 1.3 or 1.4 >>

Re: [OMPI users] sm btl choices

2010-03-01 Thread David Turner
Hi Ralph, Which version of OMPI are you using? We know that the 1.2 series was unreliable about removing the session directories, but 1.3 and above appear to be quite good about it. If you are having problems with the 1.3 or 1.4 series, I would definitely like to know about it. When I was at

Re: [OMPI users] sm btl choices

2010-03-01 Thread Ralph Castain
On Mar 1, 2010, at 8:41 AM, David Turner wrote: > On 3/1/10 1:51 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> Which version of OMPI are you using? We know that the 1.2 series was >> unreliable about removing the session directories, but 1.3 and above appear >> to be quite good about it. If you are having proble

Re: [OMPI users] sm btl choices

2010-03-01 Thread David Turner
On 3/1/10 1:51 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: Which version of OMPI are you using? We know that the 1.2 series was unreliable about removing the session directories, but 1.3 and above appear to be quite good about it. If you are having problems with the 1.3 or 1.4 series, I would definitely like to

Re: [OMPI users] sm btl choices

2010-03-01 Thread Ralph Castain
Which version of OMPI are you using? We know that the 1.2 series was unreliable about removing the session directories, but 1.3 and above appear to be quite good about it. If you are having problems with the 1.3 or 1.4 series, I would definitely like to know about it. When I was at LANL, I ran

[OMPI users] sm btl choices

2010-03-01 Thread David Turner
Hi all, Running on a large cluster of 8-core nodes. I understand that the SM BTL is a "good thing". But I'm curious about its use of memory-mapped files. I believe these files will be in $TMPDIR, which defaults to /tmp. In our cluster, the compute nodes are stateless, so /tmp is actually in R