Open MPI does not currently have an option to effect this kind of behavior. It basically assumes that you are going to ask for the right number of slots for your job.
I'll file a ticket for a future enhancement to add this behavior. On 10/6/06 11:25 AM, "Maestas, Christopher Daniel" <cdma...@sandia.gov> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if openmpi had a -pernode like behavior similar to osc > mpiexec .... > mpiexec -pernode mpi_hello > Would launch N mpi processes on N nodes ... No more no less. > > Openmpi already will try and run N*2 nodes if you don't specify -np > mpirun -np mpi_hello > Launches N*2 mpi processes on N nodes (when using torque and 2ppn > specified in your nodes file). This is good. > > I tried: > $ mpirun -nooversubscribe mpi_hello > [dn172:09406] [0,0,0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: All the slots on a given node have > been used in file rmaps_rr.c at line 116 > [dn172:09406] [0,0,0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: All the slots on a given node have > been used in file rmaps_rr.c at line 392 > [dn172:09406] [0,0,0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: All the slots on a given node have > been used in file rmgr_urm.c at line 428 > [dn172:09406] mpirun: spawn failed with errno=-126 > > Here's our env: > $ env | grep ^OM > OMPI_MCA_btl_mvapi_ib_timeout=18 > OMPI_MCA_btl_mvapi_use_eager_rdma=0 > OMPI_MCA_rmaps_base_schedule_policy=node > OMPI_MCA_btl_mvapi_ib_retry_count=15 > OMPI_MCA_oob_tcp_include=eth0 > OMPI_MCA_mpi_keep_hostnames=1 > > This helps us to simply launch scripts to be generic enough to run on > 1ppn and 2ppn studies pretty easily. > > ---- > echo "Running hello world" > mpiexec -pernode mpi_hello > echo "Running hello world 2ppn" > mpiexec mpi_hello > --- > > Thanks, > -cdm > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- Jeff Squyres Server Virtualization Business Unit Cisco Systems
