Ah, I was wrong: it wasn't Adam Moody -- it was Marc Snir's proposal. It's MPI
Forum 3.0 ticket #313:
https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/313
Download the 313.pdf to see the changes for this proposal. It did pass and
will be part of MPI-3.0.
Basically, MPI now defines a pre-defined MPI_Info object named MPI_INFO_ENV
containing the information that you are looking for.
***NOTE: the MPI_INFO_ENV name is different than what is shown in the 313.pdf
-- see the MPI-3 draft doc document for the final/official text:
http://meetings.mpi-forum.org/MPI_3.0_main_page.php).
On Aug 10, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> I swear that there was an MPI-3 proposal for just about exactly this issue
> (because there is currently no MPI-standardized way to get this information).
>
> I honestly don't remember what happened to this proposal, but I know who made
> it (Adam Moody, from Livermore). I've just pinged him off list to find out
> what happened to that proposal.
>
> Stay tuned...
>
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Frank Kampe wrote:
>
>> OK. I think I am not being clear and am using the wrong terms. For
>> example, suppose we launch and MPMD job:
>>
>> mpirun -np 1 a.out : -np 8 a.out2 : -np 512 a.out3
>>
>> There are three "instances" invoked here---that's info item(1). In other
>> words, how many executables are started. Given MPMD mode, the entire set of
>> apps belong to the same MPI_COMM_WORLD. So, MPI Task 0 is the MPI rank of
>> the process executing a.out, MPI Task 1 is the 1st MPI rank for process(s)
>> executing a.out2, and Task 9 is the 1st MPI rank for processes(s) executing
>> a.out3. That's the info in item (2) below. Finally number of tasks for
>> instance 1 is 1, for instance 2 is 8, and for instance 3 is 512---that's
>> item (3).
>>
>> What user-callable interface does OpenMPI provide to get that information in
>> a.out, a.out2, and a.out3 during run-time?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [users-boun...@open-mpi.org] on behalf of
>> Ralph Castain [r...@open-mpi.org]
>> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:00 PM
>> To: Open MPI Users
>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] User Interface for MPMD
>>
>> I gather you don't want to use the MPI calls to get it? Perhaps it would
>> help if we understood a little more about what you are trying to do.
>>
>> Or maybe we just aren't understanding the term "instance" - e.g., for #1,
>> you want to know how many processes are executing in the job, yes?
>>
>> If that's correct, then the second question doesn't make sense to me - so
>> I'm a little lost.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Frank Kampe <u2...@cray.com> wrote:
>>
>>> No. I am looking for a user-callable function that will return information
>>> about the running OpenMPI MPMD program from within the running
>>> program---the information listed below in (1) -- (3).
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [users-boun...@open-mpi.org] on behalf of
>>> Ralph Castain [r...@open-mpi.org]
>>> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:15 AM
>>> To: Open MPI Users
>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] User Interface for MPMD
>>>
>>> I'm actually not sure I understand the question - are you talking about a
>>> programmatic API where an application wants to spawn an MPI program? Or an
>>> inter-program communication API that wants to tell another program some
>>> information? Or an API by which the app can tell MPI "I'm going to spawn N
>>> threads"? Or...?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Gus Correa <g...@ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/10/2012 11:31 AM, Frank Kampe wrote:
>>>>> Are there any user level APIs to provide the following information to a
>>>>> running OpenMPI MPMD program:
>>>>>
>>>>> (1) Number of executable instances
>>>>>
>>>>> (2) 1st MPI Task rank of each instance
>>>>>
>>>>> (3) Number of MPI Tasks per instance
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank You
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> Hi Frank
>>>> Check 'man mpiexec', the --app file option, maybe also --rankfile.
>>>> The on process binding at the end may also help.
>>>> I hope this helps,
>>>> Gus Correa
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