Well that stinks. I'll take care of it - sorry about that. Guess a patch didn't 
come across at some point.


On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Olivier Riff wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> There was a bug in the use of hostfiles when a username is supplied which has 
> been fixed in OpenMPI v1.4.2.
> I have just installed the v1.5 and the bug seems to come out again : only the 
> first username provided in the machinefile is taken into account.
> 
> See mails below for the history.
> 
> My configuration : 
> OpenMPI 1.5
> Linux Mandriva 2008 x86_64 and Linux RHE x86_64
> machinefile example : 
> or985966@is209898 slots=1
> realtime@is206022 slots=8
> realtime@is206025 slots=8
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
> Date: 2010/3/11
> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OPenMpi: How to specify login name in machinefile 
> passed to mpirun
> To: Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org>
> 
> 
> Yeah, it was a bug in the parser - fix scheduled for 1.4.2 release.
> 
> Thanks!
> Ralph
> 
> On Mar 11, 2010, at 4:32 AM, Olivier Riff wrote:
> 
>> Hello Ralph,
>> 
>> Thanks for you quick reply.
>> Sorry I did not mention the version : it is the v1.4 (which indeed is not 
>> the very last one).
>> I will appreciate if you could make a short test.
>> 
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> 
>> Olivier
>> 
>> 2010/3/10 Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
>> Probably a bug - I don't recall if/when anyone actually tested that code 
>> path. I'll have a look...probably in the hostfile parser.
>> 
>> What version are you using?
>> 
>> On Mar 10, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Olivier Riff wrote:
>> 
>>> Oops sorry I made the test too fast: it still does not work properly with 
>>> several logins:
>>> 
>>> I start on user1's machine: 
>>> mpirun -np 2 --machinefile machinefile.txt MyProgram
>>> 
>>> with machinefile:
>>> user1@machine1 slots=1
>>> user2@machine2 slots=1
>>> 
>>> and I got :
>>> user1@machine2 password prompt ?! (there is no user1 account on machine2...)
>>> 
>>> My problem is still open... why is there a connection attempt to machine2 
>>> with user1 ...
>>> Has somebody an explanation ?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Olivier
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2010/3/10 Olivier Riff <olir...@googlemail.com>
>>> OK, it works now thanks. I forgot to add the slots information in the 
>>> machinefile.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Olivier
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2010/3/10 Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
>>> 
>>> It is the exact same syntax inside of the machinefile:
>>> 
>>> user1@machine1 slots=4
>>> user2@machine2 slots=3
>>> ....
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:41 AM, Olivier Riff wrote:
>>> 
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I am using openmpi on several machines which have different user accounts 
>>> > and I cannot find a way to specify the login for each machine in the 
>>> > machinefile passed to mpirun.
>>> > The only solution I found is to use the -host argument of mpirun, such as:
>>> > mpirun -np 2 --host user1@machine1,user2@machine2 MyProgram
>>> > which is very inconvenient with a lot of machines.
>>> >
>>> > Is there a way to do the same using a machinefile text? :
>>> > mpirun -np 2 -machinefile machinefile.txt MyProgram
>>> >
>>> > I cannot find the appropriate syntax for specifying a user in 
>>> > machinefile.txt...
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance,
>>> >
>>> > Olivier
>>> >
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