That is an awfully old kernel, so it may indeed not have support for binding. I'd have to defer to someone more knowledgable to say for sure, but you might consider updating to something newer.
On Mar 17, 2011, at 1:57 PM, vaibhav dutt wrote: > 2.6.9-78.0.17.ELpapismp #1 SMP Tue Apr 7 13:14:04 CDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > What OS version is it? > > uname -a > > will tell you, if you are on linux. > > On Mar 17, 2011, at 1:31 PM, vaibhav dutt wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for your reply. I tried to execute first a process by using >> >> mpirun -machinefile hostfile.txt --slot-list 0:1 -np 1 >> >> but it gives the same as error as mentioned previously. >> >> Then, I created a rankfile with contents" >> >> rank 0=t1.tools.xxx slot=0:0 >> rank 1=t1.tools.xxx slot=1:0. >> >> and the used command >> >> mpirun -machinefile hostfile.txt --rankfile my_rankfile.txt -np 2 >> >> but ended up getting same error. Is there any patch that I can install in >> my system to make it >> topology aware? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: >> The error is telling you that your OS doesn't support queries telling us >> what cores are on which sockets, so we can't perform a "bind to socket" >> operation. You can probably still "bind to core", so if you know what cores >> are in which sockets, then you could use the rank_file mapper to assign >> processes to groups of cores in a socket. >> >> It's just that we can't do it automatically because the OS won't give us the >> required info. >> >> See "mpirun -h" for more info on slot lists. >> >> On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:26 AM, vaibhav dutt wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am trying to perform an experiment in which I can spawn 2 MPI processes, >> > one on each socket in a 4 core node >> > having 2 dual cores. I used the option "bind to socket" which mpirun for >> > that but I am getting an error like: >> > >> > An attempt was made to bind a process to a specific hardware topology >> > mapping (e.g., binding to a socket) but the operating system does not >> > support such topology-aware actions. Talk to your local system >> > administrator to find out if your system can support topology-aware >> > functionality (e.g., Linux Kernels newer than v2.6.18). >> > >> > Systems that do not support processor topology-aware functionality cannot >> > use "bind to socket" and other related functionality. >> > >> > >> > Can anybody please tell me what is this error about. Is there any other >> > option than "bind to socket" >> > that I can use. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > us...@open-mpi.org >> > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
