Le Wednesday 28 July 2010 06:03:21 Nysal Jan, vous avez écrit :
> OMPI_COMM_WORLD_RANK can be used to get the MPI rank. For other environment
> variables -
> http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#mpi-environmental-variables
Are processes affected to nodes sequentially, so that I can get the NODE
number from $OMPI_COMM_WORLD_RANK modulo the number of proc per node?
> For processor affinity see this FAQ entry -
> http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=all#using-paffinity
Thank you, but that's where I had the information that I put in my previous
mail, so it doesn't answer to my question.
.Yves.
> --Nysal
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Yves Caniou <yves.caniou_at_[hidden]>wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some performance issue on a parallel machine composed of nodes of
> > 16 procs each. The application is launched on multiple of 16 procs for
> > given numbers of nodes.
> > I was told by people using MX MPI with this machine to attach a script to
> > mpiexec, which 'numactl' things, in order to make the execution
> > performance stable.
> >
> > Looking on the faq (the oldest one is for OpenMPI v1.3?), I saw that
> > maybe the
> > solution would be for me to use the --mca mpi_paffinity_alone 1
> >
> > Is that correct? -- BTW, I have both memory and processor affinity:
> > >ompi_info | grep affinity
> >
> > MCA paffinity: linux (MCA v2.0, API v2.0, Component v1.4.2)
> > MCA maffinity: first_use (MCA v2.0, API v2.0, Component v1.4.2)
> > MCA maffinity: libnuma (MCA v2.0, API v2.0, Component v1.4.2)
> > Does it handle memory too, or do I have to use another option like
> > --mca mpi_maffinity 1?
> >
> > Still, I would like to test the numactl solution. Does OpenMPI provide an
> > equivalent to $MXMPI_ID which gives at least gives the NODE on which a
> > process is launched by OpenMPI, so that I can adapt the script that was
> > given
> > to me?
> >
> > Tkx.
> >
> > .Yves.
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