We don't provide a mechanism for determining the node number - never came up before as you can use gethostname to find out what node you are on.
We do provide an envar that tells you the process rank within the node: OMPI_COMM_WORLD_LOCAL_RANK is what you are probably looking for. On Jan 26, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Frank wrote: > Say, I run a parallel program using MPI. Execution command > > mpirun -n 8 -npernode 2 <prg> > > launches 8 processes in total. That is 2 processes per node and 4 > nodes in total. (OpenMPI 1.5). Where a node comprises 1 CPU (dual > core) and network interconnect between nodes is InfiniBand. > > Now, the rank number (or process number) can be determined with > > int myrank; > MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &myrank); > > This returns a number between 0 and 7. > > But, How can I determine the node number (in this case a number > between 0 and 3) and the process number within a node (number between > 0 and 1)? > > You can find this question on stackoverflow (if you prefer to answer > through their interface): > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9022496/how-to-determine-mpi-rank-process-number-local-to-a-socket-node > > Best, > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
