[OMPI devel] RFC: make hwloc first-class data

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
WHAT: Make hwloc a 1st class item in OMPI WHY: At least 2 pieces of new functionality want/need to use the hwloc data WHERE: Put it in ompi/hwloc WHEN: Some time in the 1.5 series TIMEOUT: Tues teleconf, Oct 5 (about 2 weeks from now)

[hwloc-devel] Create success (hwloc r1.1a1r2491)

2010-09-22 Thread MPI Team
Creating nightly hwloc snapshot SVN tarball was a success. Snapshot: hwloc 1.1a1r2491 Start time: Wed Sep 22 21:01:04 EDT 2010 End time: Wed Sep 22 21:03:14 EDT 2010 Your friendly daemon, Cyrador

Re: [OMPI devel] Setting AUTOMAKE_JOBS

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 22, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Thanks for the measurements! I'm a bit surprised that the speedup is > not higher. Do you have timings as to how much of the autogen.pl time > is spent inside automake? No, they didn't. I re-ran them to just time autoreconf (is there a way

Re: [OMPI devel] Setting AUTOMAKE_JOBS

2010-09-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jeff, adding bug-automake in Cc: (non-subscribers can't post to the Open MPI list, so please remove that Cc: in case) * Jeff Squyres wrote on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:50:19PM CEST: > $AUTOMAKE_JOBS Total wall time > valueof autogen.pl > 8

Re: [OMPI devel] How to add a schedule algorithm to the pml

2010-09-22 Thread Kenneth Lloyd
Thank you very much. Ken -Original Message- From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Squyres Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:09 AM To: Open MPI Developers Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] How to add a schedule algorithm to the pml I see it

Re: [OMPI devel] How to add a schedule algorithm to the pml

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
I see it here: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00486178/en/ On Sep 22, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Kenneth Lloyd wrote: > Jeff, > > Is that EuroMPI2010 ob1 paper publicly available? I get involved in various > NUMA partitioning/architecting studies and it seems there is not a lot of >

Re: [hwloc-devel] roadmap

2010-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeff Squyres, le Wed 22 Sep 2010 13:37:12 +0200, a écrit : > I think we should support memory binding, even if it does weird things -- > i.e., dropping membinding support on a given OS shouldn't be an option. That's why I'd tend to keep set_cpubind and set_membind, warning that one may have

Re: [hwloc-devel] roadmap

2010-09-22 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 22/09/2010 16:30, Jeff Squyres a écrit : > On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > > >> hwloc_set_*? hwloc_objset* ? Anything better? >> >> hwloc_set_* might not be the best since we would have a hwloc_set_set() >> function to set one bit :) >> > Agreed. Too bad, though -- I

Re: [hwloc-devel] roadmap

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > hwloc_set_*? hwloc_objset* ? Anything better? > > hwloc_set_* might not be the best since we would have a hwloc_set_set() > function to set one bit :) Agreed. Too bad, though -- I liked hwloc_set*. hwloc_group* (that seems kinda lame, though)

Re: [hwloc-devel] roadmap

2010-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brice Goglin, le Wed 22 Sep 2010 10:38:38 +0200, a écrit : > * Some OS bind the process too when you bind memory. Not for all kinds of memory bindings. For now, nothing that has been commited does that, it's only the remaining TODOs. The bindings in question are policy binding, i.e. not binding

Re: [OMPI devel] Question regarding recently common shared-memory component

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:37 PM, wrote: > Like I said in my earlier response, I have never tried this option. So I ran > these tests on 1.4.2 now and apparently the behavior is same ie; the > checkpoint creation time increases when I enable shared

Re: [OMPI devel] New Romio for OpenMPI available in bitbucket

2010-09-22 Thread Pascal Deveze
I just commited the very last modifications of ROMIO (mpich2-1.3rc1) into bitbucket. Pascal Jeff Squyres a écrit : On Sep 17, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Pascal Deveze wrote: In charge of ticket 1888 (see at https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1888) , I have put the resulting code in

[OMPI devel] Setting AUTOMAKE_JOBS

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
Some of you may be unaware that recent versions of automake can run in parallel. That is, automake will run in parallel with a degree of (at most) $AUTOMAKE_JOBS. This can speed up the execution time of autogen.pl quite a bit on some platforms. On my cluster at cisco, here's a few quick

Re: [OMPI devel] Barrier() after Finalize() when a file handle is leaked.

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
Thanks Lisandro! I filed https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2594 about this. On Sep 15, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > I've tested this with (--enable-debug --enable-picky > --enable-mem-debug) 1.4.2 and 1.5rc6. Despite being debug builds, a > mpi4py user got the same with

Re: [OMPI devel] New Romio for OpenMPI available in bitbucket

2010-09-22 Thread Pascal Deveze
Jeff Squyres a écrit : On Sep 17, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Pascal Deveze wrote: In charge of ticket 1888 (see at https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1888) , I have put the resulting code in bitbucket at: http://bitbucket.org/devezep/new-romio-for-openmpi/ Sweet! The work in this

Re: [hwloc-devel] roadmap

2010-09-22 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 22/09/2010 13:36, Jeff Squyres a écrit : > On Sep 22, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > > >> There are still some problems to solve in the membind branch: >> * Some OS bind the process too when you bind memory. I see the following >> solutions: >> + Add a flag such as

Re: [OMPI devel] How to add a schedule algorithm to the pml

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
Sorry for the delay in replying -- I was in Europe for the past two weeks; travel always makes me wy behind on my INBOX... On Sep 14, 2010, at 9:56 PM, 张晶 wrote: > I tried to add a schedule algorithm to the pml component ,ob1 etc. Poorly I > can only find a paper named "Open MPI: A

Re: [OMPI devel] New Romio for OpenMPI available in bitbucket

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 17, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Pascal Deveze wrote: > In charge of ticket 1888 (see at > https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1888) , > I have put the resulting code in bitbucket at: > http://bitbucket.org/devezep/new-romio-for-openmpi/ Sweet! > The work in this repo consisted in refreshing

[hwloc-devel] roadmap

2010-09-22 Thread Brice Goglin
Hello, hwloc 1.0 was released in May. I think we should release 1.1 before SC10, which means doing a first RC within a couple weeks. trunk got many changes since 1.0, but nothing very important. trac says we're missing memory binding, distances and user-defined process restrictions. Memory

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-22 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 21/09/10 19:34, Samuel Thibault wrote: Just a last question: is it ok to include the /proc and /sys trees you have posted in the hwloc testcases? That's ok.