yes, i'm using 1.4.2

Thanks
  Jody

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:17 AM, jody wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a master process which spawns a number of workers of which i'd
>> like to  save the output in separate files.
>>
>> Usually i use the '-output-filename' option in such a situation.
>> However, if i do
>>  mpirun -np 1 -output-filename work_out master arg1 arg2
>> all the files work_out.1, work_out.2, ... are ok,
>> but work_out.0 contains both outputs of the master process(process 0
>> in COMM_WORLD) and
>> of the first worker (process 0 in the communicator of the spawned processes).
>
> Crud - that's a bug.
>
>>
>> I also tried the '-tag-output' option, but this involves several
>> additional steps,
>> because i have to separate the combined outputs
>>  mpirun -np 1 -tag-output  master arg1 arg2 > total.out
>>  grep "\[1,0\]" total.out | sed 's/\[1,0\]<stdout>://' > master.out
>>  grep "\[2,0\]" outA | sed 's/\[2,0\]<stdout>://' > worker_0.out
>>  grep "\[2,1\]" outA | sed 's/\[2,1\]<stdout>://' > worker_1.out
>>  ...
>> Of course, this could be wrapped in a script,  but it is a bit cumbersome
>> (and i am not sure if the job-ids are always "1" and "2") ...
>>
>> Is there some simpler way to separate the output of the two streams?
>
> Not really.
>
>>
>> If not, would it be possible to extend the -output-filename option i
>> such a way that it
>> would also combine job-id and rank withe the output file:
>>  work_out.1.0
>> for the master's output, and
>>  work_out.2.0
>>  work_out.2.1
>>  work_out.2.2
>>  ...
>> for the worker's output?
>
> Yeah, I can do that - will put something together. Are you doing this in the 
> 1.4 series?
>
>>
>> Thank You
>>  Jody
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