OpenMPI does not do this.  MPI codes are regular C and Fortran programs, so if they ALLOCATE or malloc() memory, and linux/mac can give it it will.  

I think what you need is a batch system (Torque Plug goes here).  We use a batch system that will then place processes on nodes based on memory and cpu availability.  
In torque I do this with:

#PBS -l nodes=2:ppn=2,pmem=1gb

Thats 4 cpus across 2 nodes (ppn=processors per node)  with 1gb of memory per processor.  PBS will not start my job until it can find 2 nodes with 2 cpus, where each cpu has 1 gb of memory free. 

Brock Palen
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Center for Advanced Computing
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:49 AM, Cally K wrote:
Hi everyone
 
Hi, am a beginner in openmpi, does openmpi provide a function for allocating memory to a process. For example, I have a rendering process from paraview named pvserver and I would like to allocate a certain amount of memory for that process across a few nodes specified in the hostfile..Any idea...
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