Re: [OMPI users] problem with progress thread and orte

2010-01-12 Thread Ralph Castain
Without progress threads, you can only recv messages when you call a function in the OMPI library - e.g., when you send something. In addition, you only recv -one- message for each time you call into the library. With progress threads, you recv messages when they arrive, even if you aren't in t

Re: [OMPI users] problem with progress thread and orte

2010-01-12 Thread Sangamesh B
Hi, What are the advantages with progress-threads feature? Thanks, Sangamesh On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > Yeah, the system doesn't currently support enable-progress-threads. It is a > two-fold problem: ORTE won't work that way, and some parts of the MPI layer > w

Re: [OMPI users] problem with progress thread and orte

2010-01-08 Thread Ralph Castain
Yeah, the system doesn't currently support enable-progress-threads. It is a two-fold problem: ORTE won't work that way, and some parts of the MPI layer won't either. I am currently working on fixing ORTE so it will work with progress threads enabled. I believe (but can't confirm) that the TCP B

[OMPI users] problem with progress thread and orte

2010-01-08 Thread Dong Li
Hi, guys. My application got stuck when I run an application with Open MPI 1.4 with progress thead enabled. The OpenMPI is configured and compiled with the following options. ./configure --with-openib=/usr --enable-trace --enable-debug --enable-peruse --enable-progress-threads Then I started the