I sent that last message to quick. I was ignoring that MPI_Abort already
takes two args. I've been doing a lot of Perl the past few weeks, so I'm
in a perl state of mind.
I would say add a third arg to MPI_Abort for a programmer-defined error
string, but that would violate the standard, wouldn't it? Nevermind...
Prentice
Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> I would suggest that MPI_Abort take a string as an argument, and print
> out the that string when MPI_Abort is called. If a programmer wanted to
> NOT have an abort message, they could just omit the argument:
>
> MPI_Abort("Could not open file foo");
>
> or
>
> MPI_Abort();
>
> This would be similar to Perl's die command, where you can provide a
> string to printout when die is called.
>
>
> --
> Prentice
>
> David Singleton wrote:
>> Yes, Dick has isolated the issue - novice users often believe Open MPI
>> (not their application) had a problem. Anything along the lines he
>> suggests
>> can only help.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 04/01/2010 01:12 AM, Richard Treumann wrote:
>>> I do not know what the OpenMPI message looks like or why people want to
>>> hide it. It should be phrased to avoid any implication of a problem with
>>> OpenMPI itself.
>>>
>>> How about something like this which:
>>>
>>> "The application has called MPI_Abort. The application is terminated by
>>> OpenMPI as the application demanded"
>>>
>>>
>>> Dick Treumann - MPI Team
>>> IBM Systems& Technology Group
>>> Dept X2ZA / MS P963 -- 2455 South Road -- Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
>>> Tele (845) 433-7846 Fax (845) 433-8363
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)"<jsquy...@cisco.com>
>>>
>>> To:<david.single...@anu.edu.au>,<us...@open-mpi.org>
>>>
>>> Date: 03/31/2010 06:43 AM
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Hide Abort output
>>>
>>> Sent by: users-boun...@open-mpi.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At present there is no such feature, but it should not be hard to add.
>>>
>>> Can you guys be a little more specific about exactly what you are seeing
>>> and exactly what you want to see? (And what version you're working
>>> with -
>>> I'll caveat my discussion that this may be a 1.5-and-forward thing)
>>>
>>> -jms
>>> Sent from my PDA. No type good.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org<users-boun...@open-mpi.org>
>>> To: Open MPI Users<us...@open-mpi.org>
>>> Sent: Wed Mar 31 05:38:48 2010
>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Hide Abort output
>>>
>>>
>>> I have to say this is a very common issue for our users. They repeatedly
>>> report the long Open MPI MPI_Abort() message in help queries and fail to
>>> look for the application error message about the root cause. A short
>>> MPI_Abort() message that said "look elsewhere for the real error message"
>>> would be useful.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 03/31/2010 07:58 PM, Yves Caniou wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I am using the MPI_Abort() command in a MPI program.
>>>> I would like to not see the note explaining that the command caused Open
>>> MPI
>>>> to kill all the jobs and so on.
>>>> I thought that I could find a --mca parameter, but couldn't grep it. The
>>> only
>>>> ones deal with the delay and printing more information (the stack).
>>>>
>>>> Is there a mean to avoid the printing of the note (except the
>>>> 2>/dev/null
>>>> tips)? Or to delay this printing?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> .Yves.
>>>>
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Prentice Bisbal
Linux Software Support Specialist/System Administrator
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ
