[OMPI devel] Open MPI 1.4.2 released

2010-05-04 Thread Ralph Castain
The Open MPI Team, representing a consortium of research, academic, and industry partners, is pleased to announce the release of Open MPI version 1.4.2. This release is mainly a bug fix release over the v1.4.1 release. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to version 1.4.2 if possible.

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request forCommunity Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread N.M. Maclaren
On May 4 2010, Jeff Squyres wrote: If there's a sleep(1) in the run-time test, that would be an annoying source of delay in the startup of a job. This is not a deal-breaker, but it would be nice(r) if there was a "fast" run-time check that could be checked during the sysv selection logic (i.e.

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for OpenMPI:Request forCommunity Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Ashley Pittman
On 4 May 2010, at 15:41, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On May 4, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Ashley Pittman wrote: > >>> One thing to be careful with a run-time check is that you might not want >>> *all* processes on a box to try to alloc a sysv segment, fork a child, try >>> to connect, ...etc. With large cou

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for OpenMPI:Request forCommunity Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
On May 4, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Ashley Pittman wrote: > > One thing to be careful with a run-time check is that you might not want > > *all* processes on a box to try to alloc a sysv segment, fork a child, try > > to connect, ...etc. With large count boxen, you might run out of sysv > > shmem segm

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request forCommunity Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Ashley Pittman
On 4 May 2010, at 15:27, Jeff Squyres wrote: > One thing to be careful with a run-time check is that you might not want > *all* processes on a box to try to alloc a sysv segment, fork a child, try to > connect, ...etc. With large count boxen, you might run out of sysv shmem > segments if all p

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request forCommunity Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
If there's a sleep(1) in the run-time test, that would be an annoying source of delay in the startup of a job. This is not a deal-breaker, but it would be nice(r) if there was a "fast" run-time check that could be checked during the sysv selection logic (i.e., sysv could disqualify itself if the

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread N.M. Maclaren
On May 4 2010, Terry Dontje wrote: Ralph Castain wrote: Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctly? I think J

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Ralph Castain
On May 4, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: > Ralph Castain wrote: >> >> >> On May 4, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: >> >>> Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the >>> same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in >>> th

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Terry Dontje
Ralph Castain wrote: On May 4, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctl

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Ralph Castain
On May 4, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: > Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same > in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new > SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctly? I > think Jef

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread N.M. Maclaren
On May 4 2010, Terry Dontje wrote: Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctly? I think Jeff had hinted to this

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Terry Dontje
Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctly? I think Jeff had hinted to this similarly when suggesting this may n