Will do.  My machine is currently quite busy, so it will be a while
before I get answers.  Stay tuned.

T. Rosmond


On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 13:36 -0600, Ralph Castain wrote:
> Add --display-map to your mpirun cmd line
> 
> On Apr 24, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote:
> 
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > Yes, I would be interested in such a plugin.  But be advised that I am
> > strictly a fortran programmer, so if it requires any C/C++ talent, I
> > would be in trouble.  So maybe, before jumping into that, I would like
> > to be able to look at what processor/node mapping Open-mpi is actually
> > giving me.  Is there an environmental variable or an MCA option I can
> > add to my 'mpirun' command line that would give that to me?  I am
> > running 1.5.4.
> > 
> > T. Rosmond
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 15:11 -0400, Jeffrey Squyres wrote:
> >> On Apr 24, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote:
> >> 
> >>> My question is this:  If the cartesian mapping is done so the two
> >>> spacial dimensions are the 'most rapidly varying' in equivalent 1-D
> >>> processor mapping, will Open-mpi automatically assign those 2 dimensions
> >>> 'on-node', and assign the 'ensemble' dimension as the slowest varying
> >>> and across nodes?  If not, how can we guarantee this to happen?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Sadly, the MPI mapping functions in Open MPI are effectively no-ops -- if 
> >> you ask for re-ordering, OMPI says "sure!" but then gives you back exactly 
> >> the same mapping.  :-(
> >> 
> >> That being said, the mapping functionality is actually a plugin in Open 
> >> MPI (in the "topo" framework).  It would not be too difficult to write a 
> >> plugin for the mapping that you want.
> >> 
> >> Would this be of interest to you?  I'd be happy to talk you through the 
> >> process of writing such a plugin.
> >> 
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