>>> Terry -- please add this to the agenda (but at the lowest priority).
It's been a long-standing dream of mine to launch MPI processes in individual text screens. The venerable screen(1) app makes this somewhat difficult, but I was pleased to discover recently that tmux(1) -- basically, a 2nd-generation version of screen -- makes it quite easy. With Ralph's help, I have a Mercurial branch from the trunk (https://bitbucket.org/jsquyres/ompi-tmux) where you can do stuff like this: mpirun --tmux -np 4 a.out and you'll get a 4-window tmux. Window 0 will be MCW rank 0; window 1 will be MCW rank 1, etc. You can switch between them just like you would with screen(1), and see all the proc's stdout and stderr. Once stdin forwarding is working, you'll even be able to do something like this: mpirun --tmux -np 4 gdb a.out And get a gdb in each tmux window running a single MCW process. Of course, you could do this with xterm instead: mpirun -x DISPLAY=whatever:1 -np 4 xterm -e gdb a.out But for me, at least, xterm latency is horrendous. This is why I wanted a text/ncurses-based solution. Here's the limitations so far: 1. it doesn't scale to lots of MPI processes --> this is only intended to be a debugging / development tool --> it uses the orte-iof tool for stdout/stderr/stdin forwarding 2. mpirun quits when tmux quits/detaches --> you can't disconnect and leave it running --> this could change, though (depending on what people want) 3. only stdout/stderr so far; no stdin forwarding --> it's on the to-do list; it'll take a little more work My question to developers is: what kind of functionality would you find useful? -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
