Re: [OMPI users] allow over-subscription by default

2019-04-18 Thread Ralph Castain
The two params are the result of user requests for two command line options: —oversubscribe and —no-oversubscribe. These were created for people working in environments where the system admin set a default one way or the other, and the user wanted to override it. The specific request was for a s

Re: [OMPI users] allow over-subscription by default

2019-04-18 Thread Steffen Christgau
On 17/04/2019 16.51, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via users wrote: > On Apr 17, 2019, at 3:38 AM, Steffen Christgau > wrote: >> was configured with nothing more than a --prefix and >> --enable-mpi-fortran. I checked for updates and it appears that there >> was an issue until 4.0.1 with oversubscriptio

Re: [OMPI users] allow over-subscription by default

2019-04-17 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via users
On Apr 17, 2019, at 3:38 AM, Steffen Christgau wrote: > > as written in my original post, I'm using a custom build of 4.0.0 which I'm sorry -- I missed that (it was at the bottom; my bad). > was configured with nothing more than a --prefix and > --enable-mpi-fortran. I checked for updates and

Re: [OMPI users] allow over-subscription by default

2019-04-17 Thread Steffen Christgau
Hi Jeff, as written in my original post, I'm using a custom build of 4.0.0 which was configured with nothing more than a --prefix and --enable-mpi-fortran. I checked for updates and it appears that there was an issue until 4.0.1 with oversubscription. The changelog states > - Fix a problem with t

Re: [OMPI users] allow over-subscription by default

2019-04-16 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via users
Steffen -- What version of Open MPI are you using? > On Apr 16, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Steffen Christgau > wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > it helps, up to four processes. But it has two drawbacks. 1) Using more > cores/threads than the machine provides (so the actual > over-subscription) is still not pos

Re: [OMPI users] allow over-subscription by default

2019-04-16 Thread Steffen Christgau
Hi Tim, it helps, up to four processes. But it has two drawbacks. 1) Using more cores/threads than the machine provides (so the actual over-subscription) is still not possible. 2) it still requires an additional command line argument. What I'd like to see is that a call of mpirun with an arbitr

Re: [OMPI users] allow over-subscription by default

2019-04-16 Thread Tim Jim
Hi Steffen, I'm not sure if this will help you (I'm by far no expert) but the mailing group pointed by to using: mpirun --use-hwthread-cpus to solve something similar. Kind regards, Tim On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 19:01, Steffen Christgau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > on my 2 cores/4 threads developm