Re: [OMPI devel] MPI_Comm_spawn fails under certain conditions

2014-06-25 Thread Ralph Castain
I see your point, but I don't know how to make that happen. The problem is that spawn really should fail under certain conditions because you asked us to do something we couldn't do - i.e., you asked that we launch and bind more processes then we could. Increasing the number of available resources

Re: [OMPI devel] MPI_Comm_spawn fails under certain conditions

2014-06-25 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Hi Ralph, On 2014/06/25 2:51, Ralph Castain wrote: > Had a chance to review this with folks here, and we think that having > oversubscribe automatically set overload makes some sense. However, we do > want to retain the ability to separately specify oversubscribe and overload > as well since

[OMPI devel] MPI_Comm_spawn fails under certain conditions

2014-06-24 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Folks, this issue is related to the failures reported by mtt on the trunk when the ibm test suite invokes MPI_Comm_spawn. my test bed is made of 3 (virtual) machines with 2 sockets and 8 cpus per socket each. if i run on one host (without any batch manager) mpirun -np 16 --host slurm1