Stephen,
I think you're completely right, and that I had a wrong understanding
of the modulus operator. Based on my memory, I was pretty sure that
the modulus is ALWAYS positive. Now, even Wikipedia seems to
contradict me :) They have a pretty good definition of % based on the
programming
Hmmm...just to be sure we are all clear on this. The reason we
proposed to use mpirun is that "hostfile" has no meaning outside of
mpirun. That's why ompi_info can't do anything in this regard.
We have no idea what hostfile the user may specify until we actually
get the mpirun cmd line. The