Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: hostfile setting of #slots

2012-09-02 Thread Kenneth A. Lloyd
This is a tricky issue, isn't it? With the differences between AMD & Intel, and between base operating systems "touching" & heaps (betw. Linux & Windows), and various virtual machines schemes- we have opted for an "outside the main code path" solution to get deterministic results. But that is as t

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: hostfile setting of #slots

2012-09-02 Thread Kenneth A. Lloyd
I should note that we only virtualize the private cloud / management nodes over our HPC. The HPC is not virtualized as such. Ken -Original Message- From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth A. Lloyd Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 7:14 AM

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: hostfile setting of #slots

2012-09-02 Thread Ralph Castain
Guess I should have emphasized the "IF" more - I'm talking about setting the slots ONLY in the case where the user didn't provide that information. If the user provides it, then that is what we use. In OMPI, we *always* accept the user as the ultimate decider. As things stand, we assume slots=1

[OMPI devel] OpenMPI CUDA 5 readiness?

2012-09-02 Thread Dmitry N. Mikushin
Dear Rolf, FYI, looks like with CUDA 5 preview OpenMPI trunk fails to build due to the following errors: $ svn info Path: . URL: http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk Repository Root: http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi Repository UUID: 63e3feb5-37d5-0310-a306-e8a459e722fe Revision: 27216 Node Kind