I keep checking my email in hopes that someone will come up with
something that Matt or I might've missed.
I'm just having a hard time accepting that something so fundamental
would be so broken.
The MPI_Comm_spawn command is essentially useless without the ability to
spawn processes on other nodes.
If this is true, then my personal scorecard reads:
# Days spent using openmpi: 4 (off and on)
# identified bugs in openmpi :2
# useful programs built: 0
Please prove me wrong. I'm eager to be shown my ignorance -- to find
out where I've been stupid and what documentation I should've read.
Matt Hughes wrote:
I've found that I always have to use mpirun to start my spawner
process, due to the exact problem you are having: the need to give
OMPI a hosts file! It seems the singleton functionality is lacking
somehow... it won't allow you to spawn on arbitrary hosts. I have not
tested if this is fixed in the 1.3 series.
Try
mpiexec -np 1 -H op2-1,op2-2 spawner op2-2
mpiexec should start the first process on op2-1, and the spawn call
should start the second on op2-2. If you don't use the Info object to
set the hostname specifically, then on 1.2.x it will automatically
start on op2-2. With 1.3, the spawn call will start processes
starting with the first item in the host list.
mch
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