Re: [OMPI users] Mixing Linux's CPU-shielding with mpirun's bind-to-core

2013-08-23 Thread Dave Love
John Hearns writes: > Agree with what you say Dave. > > Regarding not wanting jobs to use certsin cores ie. reserving low-numbered > cores for OS processes then surely a good way forward is to use a 'boot > cpuset' of one or two cores and let your jobs run on the rest of the cores. Maybe, if you

Re: [OMPI users] Mixing Linux's CPU-shielding with mpirun's bind-to-core

2013-08-23 Thread John Hearns
On 23 August 2013 12:36, Dave Love wrote: > John Hearns writes: > > > > cpuset' of one or two cores and let your jobs run on the rest of the > cores. > > Maybe, if you make sure the resource manager knows about it, and users > don't mind losing the cores, Depends how big your machine is. Havin

[OMPI users] What version of PMI (Cray XE6) is working for OpenMPI-1.6.5?

2013-08-23 Thread Teranishi, Keita
Hi, I am trying to install OpenMPI 1.6.5 on Cray XE6 and very curious with the current support of PMI. In the previous discussions, there was a comment on the version of PMI (it works with 2.1.4, but fails with 3.0). Our machine has PMI2.1.4 and PMI4.0 (default). Which version do you recomme

Re: [OMPI users] What version of PMI (Cray XE6) is working for OpenMPI-1.6.5?

2013-08-23 Thread Nathan Hjelm
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:14:25PM +, Teranishi, Keita wrote: >Hi, >I am trying to install OpenMPI 1.6.5 on Cray XE6 and very curious with the >current support of PMI. In the previous discussions, there was a comment >on the version of PMI (it works with 2.1.4, but fails with 3