Re: [OMPI users] limiting tasks/ranks

2012-11-01 Thread Ralph Castain
Not per se, but you could set the #slots to 12, and then add rmaps_base_no_oversubscribe = 1 to your default MCA param file. That would do what you describe. On Nov 1, 2012, at 4:21 PM, David Turner wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to limit the number of tasks started by mpirun? > For example

[OMPI users] limiting tasks/ranks

2012-11-01 Thread David Turner
Hi, Is there a way to limit the number of tasks started by mpirun? For example, on our 48-core SMP, I'd like to limit MPI jobs to a maximum of 12 tasks. That is, "mpirun -np 16 ..." would return an error. Note that this is a strictly interactive system; no batch environment available. I've jus