Hi Ralph, I encountered the hostfile issue again where slots are counted by listing the node multiple times. This should be fixed by r29765 - Fix hostfile parsing for the case where RMs count slots ....
The difference is using RM or not. At that time, I executed mpirun through Torque manager. This time I executed it directly from command line as shown at the bottom, where node05,06 has 8 cores. Then, I checked source files arroud it and found that the line 151-160 in plm_base_launch_support.c caused this issue. As node->slots is already counted in hostfile.c @ r29765 even when node->slots_given is false, I think this part of plm_base_launch_support.c would be unnecesarry. orte/mca/plm/base/plm_base_launch_support.c @ 30189: 151 } else { 152 /* set any non-specified slot counts to 1 */ 153 for (i=0; i < orte_node_pool->size; i++) { 154 if (NULL == (node = (orte_node_t*)opal_pointer_array_get_item(orte_node_pool, i))) { 155 continue; 156 } 157 if (!node->slots_given) { 158 node->slots = 1; 159 } 160 } 161 } Removing this part, it works very well, where the function of orte_set_default_slots is still alive. I think this would be better for the compatible extention of openmpi-1.7.3. Regards, Tetsuya Mishima [mishima@manage work]$ cat pbs_hosts node05 node05 node05 node05 node05 node05 node05 node05 node06 node06 node06 node06 node06 node06 node06 node06 [mishima@manage work]$ mpirun -np 4 -hostfile pbs_hosts -cpus-per-proc 4 -report-bindings myprog [node05.cluster:22287] MCW rank 2 bound to socket 1[core 4[hwt 0]], socket 1[core 5[hwt 0]], socket 1[core 6[hwt 0]], so cket 1[core 7[hwt 0]]: [./././.][B/B/B/B] [node05.cluster:22287] MCW rank 3 is not bound (or bound to all available processors) [node05.cluster:22287] MCW rank 0 bound to socket 0[core 0[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 1[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 2[hwt 0]], so cket 0[core 3[hwt 0]]: [B/B/B/B][./././.] [node05.cluster:22287] MCW rank 1 is not bound (or bound to all available processors) Hello world from process 0 of 4 Hello world from process 1 of 4 Hello world from process 3 of 4 Hello world from process 2 of 4