On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 05:25:56PM +0000, Josh Hursey via users wrote: > Thank you for the bug report. I filed a bug against PRRTE so this doesn't get > lost that you can follow below: > https://github.com/openpmix/prrte/issues/720 > > Making rankfle a per-job instead of a per-DVM option might require some > internal plumbing work. So I'm not sure how quickly this will be resolved, > but you can follow the status on that issue.
Thanks. I achieved the asymmetric node allocation among ranks by using hostfiles instead of a rankfile (with a tiny two line patch to prrte). I planned to post the full solution in a reply here (and submit a PR), just didn't get to it yet; please expect it soon.