Re: [OMPI users] Machinefile option in opempi-1.3.2

2009-06-20 Thread Rajesh Sudarsan
Thanks Ralph. It worked. Regards, Rajesh On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: > Ah, yes - that is definitely true. What you need to use is the "seq" (for > "sequential") mapper. Do the following on your cmd line: > --hostfile hostfile -mca rmaps seq > This will cause OMPI to map

Re: [OMPI users] Machinefile option in opempi-1.3.2

2009-06-20 Thread Ralph Castain
Ah, yes - that is definitely true. What you need to use is the "seq" (for "sequential") mapper. Do the following on your cmd line: --hostfile hostfile -mca rmaps seq This will cause OMPI to map the process ranks according to the order in the hostfile. You need to specify one line for each node/ran

Re: [OMPI users] Machinefile option in opempi-1.3.2

2009-06-20 Thread Rajesh Sudarsan
Hi Ralph, Thanks for the reply. The default mapper does round-robin assignment as long as I do not specify the machinefile in the following format: n1 n2 n2 n1where, n1 and n2 are two nodes in the cluster and I use two slots within each node. I have pasted the output and the display map fo

Re: [OMPI users] Machinefile option in opempi-1.3.2

2009-06-19 Thread Ralph Castain
If you do "man orte_hosts", you'll see a full explanation of how the various machinefile options work. The default mapper doesn't do any type of sorting - it is a round-robin mapper that just works its way through the provided nodes. We don't reorder them in any way. However, it does depend on the