[OMPI users] OMPI and mpipov

2008-07-11 Thread Matthias Hovestadt
Hi! I'm working in a project fucusing on fault tolerance in Grid systems. We have been using LAM-MPI and BLCR so far, now I want to evaluate OpenMPI. I read in the mailing lists that the current stable version of OpenMPI lacks many features on checkpointing, making it recommended to use the deve

Re: [OMPI users] Strange problem with 1.2.6

2008-07-11 Thread Willem Vermin
Hello Joe, I have no solution, but the same problem, see http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2008/07/6007.php There you will find a small program to demonstrate the problem. I found that the problem does not exists on all hardware, I have the impression that the problem manifests itse

[OMPI users] Query regarding OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid env variable

2008-07-11 Thread Aditya Vasal
Hi, I would be glad to receive some information regarding the environment variable OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid 1> It's Importance 2> It's Use Thanks, Aditya Vasal

Re: [OMPI users] Query regarding OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid env variable

2008-07-11 Thread Ralph H Castain
This variable is only for internal use and has no applicability to a user. Basically, it is used by the local daemon to tell an application process its rank when launched. Note that it disappears in v1.3...so I wouldn't recommend looking for it. Is there something you are trying to do with it? Re

Re: [OMPI users] Query regarding OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid env variable

2008-07-11 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:20 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: > This variable is only for internal use and has no applicability to a user. > Basically, it is used by the local daemon to tell an application process its > rank when launched. > > Note that it disappears in v1.3...so I wouldn't recommend

Re: [OMPI users] Query regarding OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid env variable

2008-07-11 Thread Ralph H Castain
On 7/11/08 7:32 AM, "Ashley Pittman" wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:20 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: >> This variable is only for internal use and has no applicability to a user. >> Basically, it is used by the local daemon to tell an application process its >> rank when launched. >> >> No

Re: [OMPI users] Outputting rank and size for all outputs.

2008-07-11 Thread Ralph H Castain
Adding the ability to tag stdout/err with the process rank is fairly simple. We are going to talk about this next week at a design meeting - we have several different tagging schemes that people have requested, so we want to define a way to meet them all that doesn't create too much ugliness in the

Re: [OMPI users] Query regarding OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid env variable

2008-07-11 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:42 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: > > > On 7/11/08 7:32 AM, "Ashley Pittman" > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:20 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: > >> This variable is only for internal use and has no applicability to a user. > >> Basically, it is used by the local d

Re: [OMPI users] Outputting rank and size for all outputs.

2008-07-11 Thread Mark Dobossy
That sounds great Ralph! Do you have any more details about how the process rank would be added? And thanks for the other suggestions from Ashley and Galen. Both methods look like they would work great, and are probably a little nicer than my current setup. -Mark On Jul 11, 2008, at 9

Re: [OMPI users] Outputting rank and size for all outputs.

2008-07-11 Thread Ralph H Castain
Not until next week's meeting, but I would guess we would simply prepend the rank. The issue will be how often to tag the output since we write it in fragments to avoid blocking - so do we tag the fragment, look for newlines and tag each line, etc. We'll figure something out... ;-) On 7/11/08 7:

Re: [OMPI users] Query regarding OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid env variable

2008-07-11 Thread Ralph H Castain
On 7/11/08 7:50 AM, "Ashley Pittman" wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:42 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: >> >> >> On 7/11/08 7:32 AM, "Ashley Pittman" >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:20 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: This variable is only for internal use and has no applicabil

Re: [OMPI users] Outputting rank and size for all outputs.

2008-07-11 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:59 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: > Not until next week's meeting, but I would guess we would simply prepend the > rank. The issue will be how often to tag the output since we write it in > fragments to avoid blocking - so do we tag the fragment, look for newlines > and tag

Re: [OMPI users] Query regarding OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid env variable

2008-07-11 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 08:01 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: > >> I believe this is partly what motivated the creation of the MPI envars - to > >> create a vehicle that -would- be guaranteed stable for just these purposes. > >> The concern was that users were doing things that accessed internal envars

Re: [OMPI users] Query regarding OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid env variable

2008-07-11 Thread Ralph H Castain
On 7/11/08 8:33 AM, "Ashley Pittman" wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 08:01 -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: I believe this is partly what motivated the creation of the MPI envars - to create a vehicle that -would- be guaranteed stable for just these purposes. The concern was that us

Re: [OMPI users] Valgrind Functionality

2008-07-11 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 18:01 -0700, Tom Riddle wrote: > Thanks Ashley, after going through your suggestions we tried our test > with valgrind 3.3.0 and with glibc-devel-2.5-18.el5_1.1, both exhibit > the same results. A simple non-MPI test prog however returns expected > responses, so valgrind itsel