Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Ralph Castain
that lead us to our conclusions. That > way, others can experiment to see which solutions work best for them. > > Ken > > > > -Original Message- > From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On > Behalf Of Ralph Castain > Sent: Tuesday, October

Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Kenneth Lloyd
Ken -Original Message- From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:28 AM To: Open MPI Developers Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Threading I honestly wasn't casting aspersions - just sounds like a

Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Ralph Castain
te us "oddball" > cases. Continue to "do what you do". > > Ken > > -Original Message- > From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On > Behalf Of Ralph Castain > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:01 AM > To: Open MPI Develo

Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Kenneth Lloyd
12, 2010 9:01 AM To: Open MPI Developers Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Threading Hmmm...I don't understand what you just said, but it definitely sounds -ugly-! :-) I'll take your word for it - we may have to provide a lower performance version for such oddball purposes, and offer a higher c

Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Kenneth Lloyd
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. Some might even think it elegant. -Original Message- From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:01 AM To: Open MPI Developers Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Ralph Castain
t; From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On > Behalf Of Barrett, Brian W > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:24 AM > To: Open MPI Developers > Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Threading > > On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > >&g

Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Kenneth Lloyd
[mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Barrett, Brian W Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:24 AM To: Open MPI Developers Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Threading On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > Does anyone know of a reason why mpirun can -not- be threaded, assuming that

Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Samuel K. Gutierrez
Same here. -- Samuel K. Gutierrez Los Alamos National Laboratory > On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a reason why mpirun can -not- be threaded, assuming >> that all threads block and do not continuously chew cpu? Is there an >> environment where this wou

Re: [OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Barrett, Brian W
On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > Does anyone know of a reason why mpirun can -not- be threaded, assuming that > all threads block and do not continuously chew cpu? Is there an environment > where this would cause a problem? We don't have any machines at Sandia where I could

[OMPI devel] Threading

2010-10-12 Thread Ralph Castain
Does anyone know of a reason why mpirun can -not- be threaded, assuming that all threads block and do not continuously chew cpu? Is there an environment where this would cause a problem? Ralph