Hi, I tested a simple hello world program on 5 nodes each with dual quad-core processors. I noticed that openmpi does not always follow the order of the processors indicated in the machinefile. Depending upon the number of processors requested, openmpi does some type of sorting to find the best node fit for a particular job and runs on them. Is there a way to make openmpi to turn off this sorting and strictly follow the order indicated in the machinefile?
mpiexec supports three options to specify the machinefile - default-machinefile, hostfile, and machinefile. Can anyone tell what is the difference between these three options? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rajesh
