Re: [hwloc-users] Re : lstopo on multiple machines

2011-08-17 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Aug 17, 2011, at 2:26 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: >> What about an MPI version of lstopo ? > > If you want to see the entire MPI job topology within a single topology, > doing it inside hwloc would likely require to check for mpirun/mpiexec > parameters and so on at configure... big mess.

Re: [hwloc-users] Re : lstopo on multiple machines

2011-08-17 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/08/11 00:07, Jeff Squyres wrote: > That being said, having better support for being able > to aggregate data from multiple hwloc instances > (e.g., lstopo) on multiple machines into a single, > cohesive map, would be great (waving hands here; I

Re: [hwloc-users] Re : lstopo on multiple machines

2011-08-16 Thread Marcelo Alaniz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 07:59:46PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > Marcelo, > Brice, first, thanks for this amazing library. The responses are below. > Could you describe a bit more what you would like to see? What we're > thinking of doing is having

Re: [hwloc-users] Re : lstopo on multiple machines

2011-08-16 Thread Jeff Squyres
I'd be against hwloc automatically spreading across multiple machines. I think there are plenty of tools to do that already. That being said, having better support for being able to aggregate data from multiple hwloc instances (e.g., lstopo) on multiple machines into a single, cohesive map,

[hwloc-users] Re : lstopo on multiple machines

2011-08-16 Thread Brice Goglin
Hello Seb, Hwloc only looks at the local machine, there's no support for multinode topology detection so far. We are considering adding it but we don't know yet what users want to do with it, if it should be in the core or not, automatic or nor. Your feedback is welcome. Brice - Reply