Re: [OMPI users] MPI_Comm_split

2010-11-23 Thread Hicham Mouline
> -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On > Behalf Of Bill Rankin > Sent: 23 November 2010 19:32 > To: Open MPI Users > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] MPI_Comm_split > > Hicham: > > > If I have a 256 mpi processes in 1 communicator, am I

Re: [OMPI users] MPI_Comm_split

2010-11-23 Thread Bill Rankin
Hicham: > If I have a 256 mpi processes in 1 communicator, am I able to split > that communicator, then again split the resulting 2 subgroups, then > again the resulting 4 subgroups and so on, until potentially having 256 > subgroups? You can. But as the old saying goes: "just because you *can*

Re: [OMPI users] tool for measuring the ping with accuracy

2010-11-23 Thread Eugene Loh
George Markomanolis wrote: Dear Eugene, Thanks a lot for the answer you were right for the eager mode. I have one more question. I am looking for an official tool to measure the ping time, just sending a message of 1 byte or more and measure the duration of the MPI_Send command on the rank

[OMPI users] MPI_Comm_split

2010-11-23 Thread Hicham Mouline
Hello If I have a 256 mpi processes in 1 communicator, am I able to split that communicator, then again split the resulting 2 subgroups, then again the resulting 4 subgroups and so on, until potentially having 256 subgroups? Is this insane in terms of performance? regards,

Re: [OMPI users] launching the mpi runtime

2010-11-23 Thread Hicham Mouline
>MPI doesn't necessarily mean SPMD -- you can certainly have the GUI call >MPI_INIT and then call MPI_COMM_SPAWN to launch a different >executable to do >the compute working stuff.  >-- >Jeff Squyres >jsquyres_at_[hidden] This is confusing to me. If the GUI does that, will the GUI process

Re: [OMPI users] Prioritization of --mca btl openib,tcp,self

2010-11-23 Thread Terry Dontje
On 11/22/2010 08:18 PM, Paul Monday (Parallel Scientific) wrote: This is a follow-up to an earlier question, I'm trying to understand how --mca btl prioritizes it's choice for connectivity. Going back to my original network, there are actually two networks running around. A point to point

Re: [OMPI users] possible mismatch between MPI_Iprobe and MPI_Recv?

2010-11-23 Thread Riccardo Murri
Hi Jeff, thanks for the explanation - I should have read the MPI standard more carefully. In the end, I traced the bug down to using standard send instead of synchronous send, so it had nothing to do with the receiving side at all. Best regards, Riccardo