Re: [OMPI users] Maximum number of MPI processes on a node + discovering faulty nodes

2012-11-27 Thread George Markomanolis
Dear Ralph, For the file descriptors the declared limit is over 65536 files but if OMPI needs several of them, then this can be interesting. Is there any source to read about it or I just should do trials? About the child processes again, can I do something? I have root access, so I can change

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum number of MPI processes on a node + discovering faulty nodes

2012-11-27 Thread Ralph Castain
Just glancing at the code, I don't see anything tied to 2**12 that pops out at me. I suspect the issue is that you are hitting a system limit on the number of child processes a process can spawn - this is different from the total number of processes allowed on the node - or the number of file de

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum number of MPI processes on a node + discovering faulty nodes

2012-11-27 Thread George Markomanolis
Dear Jeff, Of course I was thinking to execute memtester on each node on the same time and gather the outputs. However executing memtester on a node with 48GB memory it takes a lot of time (more than 1-2 hours, I don't remember exactly, maybe even more because I cancelled its execution) and I

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum number of MPI processes on a node + discovering faulty nodes

2012-11-27 Thread George Markomanolis
Dear Ralph, Thanks for the answer, I am using OMPI v1.4.1. Best regards, George Markomanolis On 11/26/2012 05:07 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: What version of OMPI are you using? On Nov 26, 2012, at 1:02 AM, George Markomanolis wrote: Dear all, Initially I would like an advice of how to ident

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum number of MPI processes on a node + discovering faulty nodes

2012-11-26 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:02 AM, George Markomanolis wrote: > Another more generic question, is about discovering nodes with faulty memory. > Is there any way to identify nodes with faulty memory? I found accidentally > that a node with exact the same hardware couldn't execute an MPI application >

Re: [OMPI users] Maximum number of MPI processes on a node + discovering faulty nodes

2012-11-26 Thread Ralph Castain
What version of OMPI are you using? On Nov 26, 2012, at 1:02 AM, George Markomanolis wrote: > Dear all, > > Initially I would like an advice of how to identify the maximum number of MPI > processes that can be executed on a node with oversubscribing. When I try to > execute an application wi