It sounds to me a bit like asking to be born before your mother. Unless I misunderstand the question... Douglas.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:24:29AM +1100, Jaison Paul wrote: > Hi, I am just reposting my early query once again. If anyone one can > give some hint, that would be great. > > Thanks, Jaison > ANU > > Jaison Paul wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am trying to use MPI for scientific High Performance (hpc) >> applications. I use MPI_Spawn to create child processes. Is there a >> way to start child processes early than the parent process, using >> MPI_Spawn? >> >> I want this because, my experiments showed that the time to spawn the >> children by parent is too long for HPC apps which slows down the whole >> process. If the children are ready when parent application process >> seeks for them, that initial delay can be avoided. Is there a way to >> do that? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Jaison >> Australian National University