Subject: Re: [MTT users] Patch to add --local-scratch option
From: Tim Mattox (timattox_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-19 12:43:54
I've also been thinking about this a bit more, and although
having the name match the INI section name has some appeal,
I ultimately think the best name is: --mpi-build-scratch, since
that is what it does. As Ethan mentioned, the actual MPI
install goes into --scratch. And on the other side of it,
the MPI Get also goes into --scratch. The --mpi-build scratch
is only used for untaring/copying the MPI source tree, running
config, make, and make check. The actual "make install"
simply copies the binaries from --mpi-build-scratch into --scratch.
As for names like local-scratch or fast-scratch, they don't convey
what it's used for, so should it be fast-for-big-files, of fast-for-small-files?
Or similarly, "local" to my cluster, my node, or what?
I think mpi-build-scratch conveys the most useful meaning, since you
should pick a filesystem that is tuned (or at least not horrible) for
doing configure/make.
Unfortunately, I won't have time today to get the patch adjusted
and into svn. Maybe on Monday.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Ethan Mallove <ethan.mallove_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep/18/2008 05:35:13PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>> On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Ethan Mallove wrote:
>>
>>>> Ah, yeah, ok, now I see why you wouldl call it --mpi-install-scratch, so
>>>> that it matches the MTT ini section name. Sure, that works for me.
>>>
>>> Since this does seem like a feature that should eventually
>>> propogate to all the other phases (except for Test run),
>>> what will we call the option to group all the fast phase
>>> scratches?
>>
>> --scratch
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Seriously, *if* we ever implement the other per-phase scratches, I think
>> having one overall --scratch and fine-grained per-phase specifications
>> fine. I don't think we need to go overboard to have a way to say I want
>> phases X, Y, and Z to use scratch A. Meaning that you could just use
>> --X-scratch=A --Y-scratch=A and --Z-scratch=A.
>
> --mpi-install-scratch actually has MTT install (using
> DESTDIR) into --scratch. Is that confusing? Though
> --fast-scratch could also be misleading, as I could see a
> user thinking that --fast-scratch will do some magical
> optimization to make their NFS directory go faster. I guess
> I'm done splitting hairs over --mpi-install-scratch :-)
>
> -Ethan
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Squyres
>> Cisco Systems
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