Discriminate we did. Not intentionally, but you are correct that it
is not supported by all the launchers yet.
We are not removing it, but I don't have the cycles at the moment to
add the support to all the different launchers. It is about 10 lines
that need to be added to the launchers, and shouldn't take much time.
Are you volunteering?
-- Josh
On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:10 PM, George Bosilca wrote:
I'm coming back on this feature. Whatever it does, it doesn't do it
right. If we support a new feature, then at least it should be
supported by all launchers (HINT it should go somewhere in the
base). As I read the PLS code, only the RSH PLS can have this
feature. That's called discrimination !!! Either we support it
everywhere, or we completely remove it.
george.
On Mar 2, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
On Mar 2, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Josh Hursey wrote:
Certainly the end user could specify another file to use in addition
to the default MCA parameter files (mca_param_files), but then they
must also specify the other locations that already exist in that
path
(e.g., $HOME/.openmpi/mca-params.conf:$SYSCONFDIR/openmpi-mca-
params.conf). This is a short cut in a sense, so the end user
doesn't
have to know all of this uglyness every time they want to run a
benchmark, or ...
This is the main point of AMCA's: user convenience. Yes, you could
supply 20 MCA params on the command line, or set them in the
environment, or add them to your $HOME/.openmpi .conf file, or add an
individual file to your MCA param file list, or ... The --amca param
is effectively syntactic sugar for adding a .conf file to the MCA
param file list. It seemed a whole lot easier to do:
mpirun --amca my_benchmark_settings.conf ...
Than
foo=`ompi_info --param mca base --parsable | grep
mca_param_files:value | cut -d: -f7-`
mpirun --mca mca_base_path my_benchmark_settings.conf:$foo ...
The intent is that various AMCA files can be introduced and installed
around the code base (I have one for the openib BTL for benchmarking,
for example -- settings that you wouldn't use in production, but you
would use with netpipe).
--
Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
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