Re: [OMPI devel] Hints for using an own pmix server

2018-10-09 Thread Stephan Krempel
Ralph, Gilles, thanks for your input. Before I answer, let me shortly explain what my general intention is. We do have our own resource manager and process launcher that supports different MPI implementations in different ways. I want to adapt it to PMIx to cleanly support OpenMPI and hopefully o

Re: [OMPI devel] Hints for using an own pmix server

2018-10-09 Thread Ralph H Castain
Hi Stephan Thanks for the clarification - that helps a great deal. You are correct that OMPI’s orted daemons do more than just host the PMIx server library. However, they are only active if you launch the OMPI processes using mpirun. This is probably the source of the trouble you are seeing. S

Re: [OMPI devel] Hints for using an own pmix server

2018-10-09 Thread Stephan Krempel
Hi Ralf, After studying prrte a little bit, I tried something new and followed the description here using openmpi 4: https://pmix.org/code/building-the-pmix-reference-server/ I configured openmpi 4.0.0rc3: ../configure --enable-debug --prefix [...] --with-pmix=[...] \ --with-libevent=/usr --wi

Re: [OMPI devel] Hints for using an own pmix server

2018-10-09 Thread Ralph H Castain
I assume this (--with-ompi-mpix-rte) is a typo as the correct option is —with-ompi-pmix-rte? It all looks okay to me for the client, but I wonder if you remembered to call register_nspace and register_client on your server prior to starting the client? If not, the connection will be dropped - y