Thanks for the patch - it works fine!

Jody

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
> Just so you don't have to wait for 1.4.3 to be released, here is the patch.
> Ralph
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> On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:44 AM, jody wrote:
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>> 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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