should work!
On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:24 AM, José Luis García Pallero <jgpall...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2013/6/6 Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
> Afraid not. You could start a single process, and then have that process call
> MPI_Comm_spawn to launch the rest of them
>
> Mmmm... sounds good
>
> I'm writing an example program using ScaLAPACK. I have written the ScaLAPACK
> code in an independent function that must be called after some work in an
> individual node (the root one). So I need the first part of the program be
> executed by one process. My example looks like:
>
> int main()
> {
> //some work that must be done by only one node
> .....
> //function that runs internally some scalapack computations
> funcCompScalapack();
> //other work must be done by the original node
> ....
> return 0;
> }
>
> void funcCompScalapack()
> {
> //Initialize MPI
> MPI_Init(NULL,NULL);
> //here I think I should write some code in order to inform that the work
> must be done by a number X or processors
> //maybe using MPI_Comm_spawn?
> ....
> //some BLACS and ScaLAPACK computations
> ....
> //finalize MPI
> MPI_Finalize();
> return;
> }
>
> When I execute this program as mpirun -np X myprogram, the pieces of code
> before and after the call to function funcCompScalapack() are executed by X
> nodes, but these orders must be executed only by one. So my idea is to
> execute the binary as ./myprogram (the same I think as mpirun -np 1
> myprogram) and internally set the number of processes in funcCompScalapack()
> after the MPI_Init() call.
>
> Is my idea possible?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 7:54 AM, José Luis García Pallero <jgpall...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I'm newbie in the use of MPI, so probably I ask some stupid question (or
>> previously asked, but in this case I have searched in the archive and I
>> haven't found anything):
>>
>> Exists any other way than -np X in order to pass the number of processes to
>> start for an MPI program? I mean a function of the style
>> MPI_Set_Number_Processes() or similar
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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