Hi,
in the mpirun/mpiexec/orterun manpage (openmpi V1.2.5) the Multiple
Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) Mode command line syntax is badly garbled
and hard to understand.
I'd like to suggest the attached patch.
regards
Peter Breitenlohner <p...@mppmu.mpg.de>
diff -ur openmpi-1.2.5.orig/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.1
openmpi-1.2.5/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.1
--- openmpi-1.2.5.orig/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.1 2007-12-06
21:20:59.000000000 +0100
+++ openmpi-1.2.5/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.1 2008-01-14 19:21:39.000000000
+0100
@@ -22,20 +22,26 @@
.PP
Single Process Multiple Data (SPMD) Model:
-.B mpirun [ options ]
-.B <program> [ <args> ]
+.B mpirun
+[ options ]
+.B <program>
+[ <args> ]
.P
Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) Model:
-.B mpirun .R [ global_options ]
+.B mpirun
+[ global_options ]
[ local_options1 ]
-.B <program1> .R [ <args1> ] :
+.B <program1>
+[ <args1> ] :
[ local_options2 ]
-.B <program2> .R [ <args2> ] :
+.B <program2>
+[ <args2> ] :
... :
[ local_optionsN ]
-.B <programN> .R [ <argsN> ]
+.B <programN>
+[ <argsN> ]
.P
Note that in both models, invoking \fImpirun\fR via an absolute path
