Re: [OMPI devel] [devel-core] [RFC] Exit without finalize

2007-09-11 Thread Aurelien Bouteiller
Sounds great to me. Aurelien Le 11 sept. 07 à 13:03, Jeff Squyres a écrit : If you genericize the concept, I think it's compatible with FT: 1. during MPI_INIT, one of the MPI processes can request a "notify" exit pattern for the job: a process must notify the RTE before it actually exits (i.e.

Re: [OMPI devel] [devel-core] [RFC] Exit without finalize

2007-09-11 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 8, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Aurelien Bouteiller wrote: I agree (b) is not a good idea. However I am not very pleased by (a) either. It totally prevent any process Fault Tolerant mechanism if we go that way. If we plan to add some failure detection mechanism to RTE and failure management (to avoi

Re: [OMPI devel] [devel-core] [RFC] Exit without finalize

2007-09-08 Thread Aurelien Bouteiller
Le 6 sept. 07 à 09:27, Terry D. Dontje a écrit : Gleb Natapov wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:50:43AM -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: WHAT: Decide upon how to handle MPI applications where one or more processes exit without calling MPI_Finalize WHY:Some applications can abort

Re: [OMPI devel] [devel-core] [RFC] Exit without finalize

2007-09-06 Thread Terry D. Dontje
Gleb Natapov wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:50:43AM -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: WHAT: Decide upon how to handle MPI applications where one or more processes exit without calling MPI_Finalize WHY:Some applications can abort via an exit call instead of calling MPI_Abo

Re: [OMPI devel] [devel-core] [RFC] Exit without finalize

2007-09-06 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:50:43AM -0600, Ralph H Castain wrote: > WHAT: Decide upon how to handle MPI applications where one or more > processes exit without calling MPI_Finalize > > WHY:Some applications can abort via an exit call instead of > calling MPI_Abort when a libra