--report-bindings didn't report anything
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Ron Cohen
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Ronald Cohen <recoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> —display-allocation an
> didn't seem to give useful information:
>
> ======================   ALLOCATED NODES   ======================
>         n005: slots=16 max_slots=0 slots_inuse=0 state=UP
>         n008.cluster.com: slots=16 max_slots=0 slots_inuse=0 state=UP
>         n007.cluster.com: slots=16 max_slots=0 slots_inuse=0 state=UP
>         n006.cluster.com: slots=16 max_slots=0 slots_inuse=0 state=UP
> =================================================================
>
> for
> mpirun -display-allocation  --map-by ppr:8:node -n 32
>
> Ron
>
> ---
> Ron Cohen
> recoh...@gmail.com
> skypename: ronaldcohen
> twitter: @recohen3
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Ronald Cohen <recoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually there was the same number of procs per node in each case. I
>> verified this by logging into the nodes while they were running--in
>> both cases 4 per node .
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> ---
>> Ron Cohen
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Ronald Cohen <recoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It is very strange but my program runs slower with any of these
>>>> choices than if IO simply use:
>>>>
>>>> mpirun  -n 16
>>>> with
>>>> #PBS -l 
>>>> nodes=n013.cluster.com:ppn=4+n014.cluster.com:ppn=4+n015.cluster.com:ppn=4+n016.cluster.com:ppn=4
>>>> for example.
>>>
>>> This command will tightly pack as many procs as possible on a node - note 
>>> that we may well not see the PBS directives regarding number of ppn. Add 
>>> —display-allocation and let’s see how many slots we think were assigned on 
>>> each node
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The timing for the latter is 165 seconds, and for
>>>> #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=16,pmem=1gb
>>>> mpirun  --map-by ppr:4:node -n 16
>>>> it is 368 seconds.
>>>
>>> It will typically be faster if you pack more procs/node as they can use 
>>> shared memory for communication.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Ron Cohen
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Ronald Cohen <recoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you! I will try it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What would
>>>>>> -cpus-per-proc  4 -n 16
>>>>>> do?
>>>>>
>>>>> This would bind each process to 4 cores, filling each node with procs 
>>>>> until the cores on that node were exhausted, to a total of 16 processes 
>>>>> within the allocation.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Ron Cohen
>>>>>> recoh...@gmail.com
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>>>>>> twitter: @recohen3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Add -rank-by node to your cmd line. You’ll still get 4 procs/node, but 
>>>>>>> they will be ranked by node instead of consecutively within a node.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Ronald Cohen <recoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am using
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> mpirun  --map-by ppr:4:node -n 16
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and this loads the processes in round robin fashion. This seems to be
>>>>>>>> twice as slow for my code as loading them node by node, 4 processes
>>>>>>>> per node.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How can I not load them round robin, but node by node?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> Ron Cohen
>>>>>>>> recoh...@gmail.com
>>>>>>>> skypename: ronaldcohen
>>>>>>>> twitter: @recohen3
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> Ronald Cohen
>>>>>>>> Geophysical Laboratory
>>>>>>>> Carnegie Institution
>>>>>>>> 5251 Broad Branch Rd., N.W.
>>>>>>>> Washington, D.C. 20015
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