Thanks, increasing to 1G seem to "unstuck" the processes. 
My training pairs is only about 250K of sentences, so I had thought 0.5G should
be sufficient; perhaps the issue is with the size of the LM.

Nevertheless, I'm doing mert on a dev-set which has only about 1000 source
sentences. For this setup, I found that parallel mert only marginally reduces
the time for each mert iteration. Non-parallel mert needs 60 minutes per
iteration; while parallel-mert on 5 nodes needs 40-50 minutes per iteration. 

I know that the speedup from parallel mert is non-linear in the no. of nodes,
due to the time needed to coordinate among the sub-processes.

Best regards,
Yee Seng.






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