When running your comm_spawn code, did you remove the Info key code? You
wouldn't need to provide a hostfile or hosts any more, which is why it
should resolve that problem.

I agree that providing either hostfile or host as an Info key will cause
the program to segfault - I'm woking on that issue.


On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Evan Samanas <evan.sama...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Setting these environment variables did indeed change the way mpirun maps
> things, and I didn't have to specify a hostfile.  However, setting these
> for my MPI_Comm_spawn code still resulted in the same segmentation fault.
>
> Evan
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>
>> If you add the following to your environment, you should run on multiple
>> nodes:
>>
>> OMPI_MCA_rmaps_base_mapping_policy=node
>> OMPI_MCA_orte_default_hostfile=<your hostfile>
>>
>> The first tells OMPI to map-by node. The second passes in your default
>> hostfile so you don't need to specify it as an Info key.
>>
>> HTH
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Evan Samanas <evan.sama...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ralph,
>>>
>>> Good to know you've reproduced it.  I was experiencing this using both
>>> the hostfile and host key.  A simple comm_spawn was working for me as well,
>>> but it was only launching locally, and I'm pretty sure each node only has 4
>>> slots given past behavior (the mpirun -np 8 example I gave in my first
>>> email launches on both hosts).  Is there a way to specify the hosts I want
>>> to launch on without the hostfile or host key so I can test remote launch?
>>>
>>> And to the "hostname" response...no wonder it was hanging!  I just
>>> constructed that as a basic example.  In my real use I'm launching
>>> something that calls MPI_Init.
>>>
>>> Evan
>>>
>>>
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