Hi,

Thanks for the clarification. So, now I am wondering how rank information regarding processes in MPI_COMM_WORLD are assigned. Is there a table that stores unique integer values for processess or is rank assignment done in some other manner?

Thanks,

Sajjad Tabib



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Hi Sajjad,

The vpid is not unique. If you do a comm_spawn then the newly launched
processes will have a new jobid, and their vpids will start at 0. So the
whole process name is unique.

However, there is talk now of being able to join 2 jobs that were
started completely independently. This may lead to the point where a
process name is no longer unique, however this work appears to be a ways
out and as far as I know no decisions have been made on it yet.

Hope this helps,

Tim

Sajjad Tabib wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a proprietary transport/messaging layer that sits below an MTL
> component. This transport layer requires OpenMPI to assign it a rank
> that is unique and specific to that process and will not change from
> execution to termination. In a way, I am trying to find a one-one
> correspondence between a process's universal rank in OpenMPI and this
> transport layer. I began looking at ompi_proc_t from different processes
> and seemingly found a unique identifier, proc_name.vpid. Consequently, I
> assigned the ranks to each process in my transport layer based on the
> value of the local vpid of each process.
> I have not tested this thoroughly, but it has been working so far.
> Although, I would like to make sure that this is a good approach, or
> know, at least, whether if there are other ways to do this. I would
> appreciate it if you could leave me feedback or give suggestions on how
> to assign universal ranks to a proprietary transport software.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Sajjad Tabib
>
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