Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI/ORTE and tools

2008-01-23 Thread Jeff Squyres
Gotcha; thanks for the explanation. The capabilities you added sounds good for the moment; I'm sure we'll think of more over time... On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Ralph H Castain wrote: On 1/19/08 6:31 AM, "Jeff Squyres" wrote: Ralph -- I'm a little confused as to what you're provid

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI/ORTE and tools

2008-01-22 Thread Ralph H Castain
On 1/19/08 6:31 AM, "Jeff Squyres" wrote: > Ralph -- > > I'm a little confused as to what you're providing. In all 3 of the > scenarios you describe, you're saying that the external tool can > connect to the HNP for one or more jobs and execute a few discrete > functions: > > - find procs a

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI/ORTE and tools

2008-01-19 Thread Jeff Squyres
Ralph -- I'm a little confused as to what you're providing. In all 3 of the scenarios you describe, you're saying that the external tool can connect to the HNP for one or more jobs and execute a few discrete functions: - find procs and/or jobs running under that HNP - querying status of

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI/ORTE and tools

2008-01-16 Thread Ralph Castain
I should have also stated that one other difference in the "tool" setup is that the tool does not create a session directory (you can override that if you need one). This simplifies cleanup of the tool, and helps with tools like orte-clean. Note that the session directory's main function is to hous

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI/ORTE and tools

2008-01-16 Thread Ralph Castain
Hi Josh I already converted orte-ps and orte-clean in the tmp/rhc-step2b branch on OMPI's svn repository. Shouldn't be hard to convert the checkpoint/restart tools to use it too - I may have already done some of that work, but I may not be remembering it correctly. I'll do some cleanup on the cod

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI/ORTE and tools

2008-01-16 Thread Josh Hursey
Ralph, This looks interesting. Can you point me to the header files and any ORTE tools that you may have converted to use this library already (e.g., orte-ps)? I can port the checkpoint/restart tools to this library and start sending you some feedback on the API. Cheers, Josh On Jan 16,

[OMPI devel] OMPI/ORTE and tools

2008-01-16 Thread Ralph Castain
Hello all Summary: this note provides a brief overview of how various tools can interface to OMPI applications once the next version of ORTE is integrated into the trunk. It includes a request for input regarding any needs (e.g., additional commands to be supported in the interface) that have not