On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:00:57PM -0600, Edgar Gabriel wrote:
> you are touching here a difficult area in Open MPI:
I don't doubt it. I haven't found an MPI implementation yet that does
this without any quirks or oddities :>
> - name publishing across independent jobs does unfortunatly not work
> right now (It does work, if all processes have been started by the
> same mpirun or if the have been spawned by a father process using
> MPI_Comm_spawn). Your approach with passing the port as a command
> line option should work however.
>
> - you have to start however the orted daemon *before* starting both
> jobs using the flags ' orted --seed --persistent --scope public'
> These flags are however currently just lightly tested, since a
> brand new runtime environment with much better support for these
> operations is currently under development.
Ok, got it. If there is some sort of setup before hand (in this
case, lanuching orted), then these independent mpi processes will
have a lot easier time talking to each other. Makes sense.
> - regarding the 'pack data mismatch': do both machines which you are
> using have the same data representation? The reason I ask is
> because this looks like a data type mismatch error, and Open MPI
> currently does have some restriction regarding different data
> formats and endianness...
I'm just running this on the same machine.
Thanks for the quick response.
==rob
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Rob Latham
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Argonne National Labs, IL USA B29D F333 664A 4280 315B
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