On Jan 9, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Warner Yuen wrote:
Thanks to Brian Barrett, I was able to get through some ugly Intel compiler bugs during the configure script. I now have OMPI v1.2.5 running nicely under Mac OSX v10.5 Leopard!
Excellent!
However, I have a question about hostfiles. I would like to manually launch MPI jobs from my headnode, but I don't want the jobs to run on the head node. In LAM/MPI I could add a "hostname schedule=no" to the hostfile, is there an equivalent in OpenMPI? I'm sure this has come up before, but I couldn't find an answer in the archives.
Actually, we tried to learn how *not* do to it from LAM :-) and did it a bit better in Open MPI (at least, we think so ;-) ).
In Open MPI, you can simply not list the head node in the hostfile. More specifically: in LAM, you *have* to list the node where you invoke mpirun from in the hostfile (hence the need for the schedule=no attribute). In Open MPI, there is no such requirement, so you can just lead the head node's hostname out of the hostfile.
-- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems
