I get the sender's rank in status.MPI_SOURCE, but it is different than expected. I need to receive that message which was sent to me, not any message.
regards, Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:33:41 -0400 From: Terry Dontje <terry.don...@oracle.com> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Urgent Question regarding, MPI_ANY_SOURCE. To: us...@open-mpi.org Message-ID: <4e201785.6010...@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Mudassar, You can do what you are asking. The receiver uses MPI_ANY_SOURCE for the source rank value and when you receive a message the status.MPI_SOURCE will contain the rank of the actual sender not the receiver's rank. If you are not seeing that then there is a bug somewhere. --td On 7/14/2011 9:54 PM, Mudassar Majeed wrote: > Friend, > I can not specify the rank of the sender. Because only > the sender knows to which receiver the message is to be sent. The > receiver does not know from which sender the message will come. I am > trying to do a research work on load balancing in MPI application > where load is redistributed, so in that I require a receiver to > receive a load value from a sender that it does not know. On the other > hand, the sender actually calculates, to which receiver this load > value should be sent. So for this, I want sender to send a message > containing the load to a receiver, but receiver does not know from > which sender the message will come. See, it is like send receiver in > DATAGRAM sockets. The receiver, receives the message on the IP and > port, the message which was directed for it. I want to have same > behavior. But it seems that it is not possible in MPI. Isn't it? > > regards, > Mudassar > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> > *To:* Mudassar Majeed <mudassar...@yahoo.com> > *Cc:* Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> > *Sent:* Friday, July 15, 2011 3:30 AM > *Subject:* Re: [OMPI users] Urgent Question regarding, MPI_ANY_SOURCE. > > Right. I thought you were asking about receiving *another* message > from whomever you just received from via ANY_SOURCE. > > If you want to receive from a specific sender, you just specify the > rank you want to receive from -- not ANY_SOURCE. > > You will always only receive messages that were sent to *you*. > There's no MPI_SEND_TO_ANYONE_WHO_IS_LISTENING functionality, for > example. So your last statement: "But when it captures with .. > MPI_ANY_SOURCE and MPI_ANY_TAG, the receiver will capture any message > (even not targetted for it)" is incorrect. > > I guess I still don't understand your question...? > > > On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Mudassar Majeed wrote: > > > > > I know this, but when I compare status.MPI_SOURCE with myid, they > are different. I guess you need to reconsider my question. The > MPI_Recv function seems to capture message from the queue with some > search parameters like source, tag etc. So in case the receiver does > not know the sender and wants to receive only that message which was > sent for this receiver. But when it captures with source as > MPI_ANY_SOURCE and MPI_ANY_TAG, the receiver will capture any message > (even not targetted for it). > > > > regards, > > Mudassar > > > > > > From: Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com <mailto:jsquy...@cisco.com>> > > To: Mudassar Majeed <mudassar...@yahoo.com > <mailto:mudassar...@yahoo.com>>; Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org > <mailto:us...@open-mpi.org>> > > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 1:58 AM > > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Urgent Question regarding, MPI_ANY_SOURCE. > > > > When you use MPI_ANY_SOURCE in a receive, the rank of the actual > sender is passed back to you in the status.MPI_SOURCE. > > > > On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Mudassar Majeed wrote: > > > > > Hello people, > > > I am trapped in the following problem plz > help me. Suppose a process A sends a message to process B. The process > B will receive the message with MPI_Recv with MPI_ANY_SOURCE in the > source argument. Let say process B does not know that A is the sender. > But I want B to receive message from process A (the one who actually > sends the message to process B). But if I use MPI_ANY_SOURCE, then any > message from any source is captured by process B (let say there are > other processes sending messages). Instead of MPI_ANY_SOURCE I cannot > use A in the source argument as B does not know about the sender. What > should I do in this situation ? > > > > > > regards, > > > Mudassar Majeed > > > _______________________________________________ > > > users mailing list > > > us...@open-mpi.org <mailto:us...@open-mpi.org> > > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > > > > -- > > Jeff Squyres > > jsquy...@cisco.com <mailto:jsquy...@cisco.com> > > For corporate legal information go to: > > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > > > > > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com <mailto:jsquy...@cisco.com> > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
