Ralph, I am using 1.3.2, so the relative node syntax certainly seems the way to go. However, I seem to be missing something. On the 'orte_hosts' man page near the top is the simple example:
mpirun -pernode -host +n1,+n2 ./app1 : -host +n3,+n4 ./app2 I set up my job to run on 4 nodes (4 processors/node), and slavishly copied this line into my PBS script. However, I got the following error message: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- mpirun found multiple applications specified on the command line, with at least one that failed to specify the number of processes to execute. When specifying multiple applications, you must specify how many processes of each to launch via the -np argument. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I suspect an '-npernode 4' option, rather than '-pernode', is what I really need, since I want 4 processes per node. Either way, however, I don't think that explains the above error message. Correct? Do I still need to extract node-name information from the PBS_NODEFILE for this approach, and replace n1, n2, etc, with the actual node-names? T. Rosmond On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 14:54 -0700, Ralph Castain wrote: > What version are you trying to do this with? > > Reason I ask: in 1.3.x, we introduced relative node syntax for > specifying hosts to use. This would eliminate the need to create the > hostfiles. > > You might do a "man orte_hosts" (assuming you installed the man pages) > and see what it says. > > Ralph > > On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote: > > > I want to run a number of MPI executables simultaneously in a PBS job. > > For example on my system I do 'cat $PBS_NODEFILE' and get a list like > > this: > > > > n04 > > n04 > > n04 > > n04 > > n06 > > n06 > > n06 > > n06 > > n07 > > n07 > > n07 > > n07 > > n09 > > n09 > > n09 > > n09 > > > > i.e, 16 processors on 4 nodes. from which I can parse into file(s) as > > desired. If I want to run prog1 on 1 node (4 processors), prog2 on 1 > > node (4 processors), and prog3 on 2 nodes (8 processors), I think the > > syntax will be something like: > > > > mpirun -np 4 --hostfile nodefile1 prog1: \ > > -np 4 --hostfile nodefile2 prog2: \ > > -np 8 --hostfile nodefile3 prog3 > > > > Where nodefile1, nodefile2, and nodefile3 are the lists extracted from > > PBS_NODEFILE. Is this correct? Any suggestion/advice, (e.g. syntax > > of > > the 'nodefiles'), is appreciated. > > > > T. Rosmond > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
