On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:29 AM, "Nima Aghajari" <gr...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello, > first of all thanks for your reply. I tried specifying the --slot-list option > like you proposed. This will unfortunately lead to the same mpirun with 5 > cores. Adding another slot-list command for the second program, e.g. > > mpirun -np 4 --slot-list 0-3 prog_1 : -np 1 --slot-list 0 prog_2 > > will actually run on only 4 cores, but now it takes more than triple the time > as needed before on 5 cores. I suppose there should be some overhead because > of the oversubscription but that definitely seems too much. Any suggestions? Not really - oversubscription is pretty painful, depending on what mechanism you use to "idle" prog_2. It could be polling if you aren't careful. You also have to see how you are "idling" prog_1 once it completes its task - again, it could be polling hard if it is in a barrier in MPI_Finalize. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
