[OMPI users] arch question: long running app

2007-12-04 Thread doktora v
Hi, although I did my due diligence on searching for this question, I apologise if this is a repeat. >From an architectural point of view does it make sense to use MPI in the following scenario (for the purposes of resilience as much as parallelization): Each process is a long-running process (run

Re: [OMPI users] arch question: long running app

2007-12-06 Thread doktora v
ion time, you might be > better served for [extremely] long-running applications by using a > simple (but resilient) sockets-based communication layer and not using > MPI. I say this mainly because of the fault tolerance issues involved > and the natural hardware MTBF values that we see on today&