Re: [OMPI devel] RFC 1/1: improvements to the "notifier" framework and ORTE WDC

2010-03-29 Thread Ralph Castain
On Mar 29, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Abhishek Kulkarni wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Sylvain Jeaugey wrote: > >> Hi Ralph, >> >> For now, I think that yes, this is a unique identifier. However, in my >> opinion, this could be improved in the future replacing it by a unique >> string. >> >> Som

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC 1/1: improvements to the "notifier" framework and ORTE WDC

2010-03-29 Thread Abhishek Kulkarni
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Sylvain Jeaugey wrote: Hi Ralph, For now, I think that yes, this is a unique identifier. However, in my opinion, this could be improved in the future replacing it by a unique string. Something like : #define ORTE_NOTIFIER_DEFINE_EVENT(eventstr, associated_text) {

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC 1/1: improvements to the "notifier" framework and ORTE WDC

2010-03-29 Thread Abhishek Kulkarni
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Ralph Castain wrote: Hi Abhishek I'm confused by the WDC wiki page, specifically the part about the new ORTE_NOTIFIER_DEFINE_EVENT macro. Are you saying that I (as the developer) have to provide this macro with a unique notifier id? So that would mean that ORTE/OMPI would

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC 1/1: improvements to the "notifier" framework and ORTE WDC

2010-03-29 Thread Ralph Castain
Hi Sylvain I think something like that is really required. Having to manage event identifiers across OMPI layers is going to prove impractical otherwise. Abhishek: I would suggest this be done prior to moving the branch into the trunk. Whether you use Sylvain's proposed solution or another is u

Re: [OMPI devel] Changing BTLs at runtime

2010-03-29 Thread Josh Hursey
This line of work sounds interesting. Just wanted to add my 2 cents on one point below. On Mar 26, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Christoph Konersmann wrote: The Background: I should give some background, why I'm implementing this. Changing the MPI communication from a high speed network to a netwo

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC 1/1: improvements to the "notifier" framework and ORTE WDC

2010-03-29 Thread Sylvain Jeaugey
Hi Ralph, For now, I think that yes, this is a unique identifier. However, in my opinion, this could be improved in the future replacing it by a unique string. Something like : #define ORTE_NOTIFIER_DEFINE_EVENT(eventstr, associated_text) { static int event = -1; if (OPAL_UNL

Re: [OMPI devel] The feature of openmpi1.5

2010-03-29 Thread Josh Hursey
Process migration is a feature that we are planning on adding to the 1.5 series within the next year. Unfortunately I cannot provide any more details about the state of the implementation or availability schedule at the moment. Once it is publicly available then there will be an announcemen

Re: [OMPI devel] process migration on openmpi

2010-03-29 Thread Josh Hursey
The link that Jeff cited contains all of the public information about the current design and use of the C/R infrastructure in Open MPI. The rest of the design of Open MPI is largely in the source code at the moment. If you have questions about the design or specific pieces of code, then t

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC 1/1: improvements to the "notifier" framework and ORTE WDC

2010-03-29 Thread Ralph Castain
Hi Abhishek I'm confused by the WDC wiki page, specifically the part about the new ORTE_NOTIFIER_DEFINE_EVENT macro. Are you saying that I (as the developer) have to provide this macro with a unique notifier id? So that would mean that ORTE/OMPI would have to maintain a global notifier id count

[OMPI devel] RFC 2/2: merge the OPAL SOS development branch into trunk

2010-03-29 Thread Abhishek Kulkarni
== [RFC 2/2] == WHAT: Merge the OPAL SOS development branch into the OMPI trunk. WHY: Bring over some of the work done to enhance error reporting capabilities

[OMPI devel] RFC 1/1: improvements to the "notifier" framework and ORTE WDC

2010-03-29 Thread Abhishek Kulkarni
== [RFC 1/2] == WHAT: Merge improvements to the "notifier" framework from the OPAL SOS and the ORTE WDC mercurial branches into the SVN trunk. WHY: Some i