Pvm is not dead. It's "stable".
2013/6/6 Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com>
> The traditional way to do this stuff in MPI is
>
> If rank==0 do_master_stuff
> Else do_slave_stuff
>
> Sounds like that pattern should apply to your app.
>
> Pvm has been dead for years.
>
> Sent from my phone. No type good.
>
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:43 AM, "Ralph Castain" <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>
> I honestly don't know - you'd have to look at the PVM docs. You also
> might look at OpenMP and try doing it with multiple threads instead of
> processes, though that limits you to running on a single node.
>
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:37 AM, José Luis García Pallero <jgpall...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 2013/6/6 Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
>
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:58 AM, José Luis García Pallero <
>> jgpall...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2013/6/6 Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
>>
>>> should work!
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for your answer.
>>
>> So I understand that MPI_Comm_spawn() is my function. But I see in the
>> documentation that the first argument is char* command, and command is the
>> name of the program to spawn, but I not want to execute an external
>> program. Only a piece of code in the same program. How can I deal with
>> that.
>>
>>
>> You'll have to move that code into a separate program, then pass any
>> data it requires using MPI_Send/receive or a collective operation
>>
>
> Mmm... bad news. It is impossible, then in MPI. I need all the code in
> the same executable.
>
> I know this is offtopic in this list, but, can I perform the
> calculations as I want using PVM? (ScaLAPACK et al. can also run with PVM)
>
> Cheers
>
>
>>
>> The second argument is char* argv[]. Admits MPI_Comm_spawn() the NULL
>> value for argv[], as MPI_Init()?
>>
>> I know also that I can do my program by putting the code before and
>> after the call funcCompScalapack() into an if() checking if the node is the
>> root and then these pieces of code will be executed only by the root. But I
>> want to maintain all the program free of MPI code except the
>> funcCompScalapack() function
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:24 AM, José Luis García Pallero <
>>> jgpall...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2013/6/6 Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
>>>
>>>> Afraid not. You could start a single process, and then have that
>>>> process call MPI_Comm_spawn to launch the rest of them
>>>>
>>>
>>> Mmmm... sounds good
>>>
>>> I'm writing an example program using ScaLAPACK. I have written the
>>> ScaLAPACK code in an independent function that must be called after some
>>> work in an individual node (the root one). So I need the first part of the
>>> program be executed by one process. My example looks like:
>>>
>>> int main()
>>> {
>>> //some work that must be done by only one node
>>> .....
>>> //function that runs internally some scalapack computations
>>> funcCompScalapack();
>>> //other work must be done by the original node
>>> ....
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>>
>>> void funcCompScalapack()
>>> {
>>> //Initialize MPI
>>> MPI_Init(NULL,NULL);
>>> //here I think I should write some code in order to inform that
>>> the work must be done by a number X or processors
>>> //maybe using MPI_Comm_spawn?
>>> ....
>>> //some BLACS and ScaLAPACK computations
>>> ....
>>> //finalize MPI
>>> MPI_Finalize();
>>> return;
>>> }
>>>
>>> When I execute this program as mpirun -np X myprogram, the pieces of
>>> code before and after the call to function funcCompScalapack() are executed
>>> by X nodes, but these orders must be executed only by one. So my idea is to
>>> execute the binary as ./myprogram (the same I think as mpirun -np 1
>>> myprogram) and internally set the number of processes in
>>> funcCompScalapack() after the MPI_Init() call.
>>>
>>> Is my idea possible?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 6, 2013, at 7:54 AM, José Luis García Pallero <
>>>> jgpall...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello:
>>>>
>>>> I'm newbie in the use of MPI, so probably I ask some stupid question
>>>> (or previously asked, but in this case I have searched in the archive and I
>>>> haven't found anything):
>>>>
>>>> Exists any other way than -np X in order to pass the number of
>>>> processes to start for an MPI program? I mean a function of the style
>>>> MPI_Set_Number_Processes() or similar
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
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