You should consider it a bug for now - it won’t work in the 2.0 series, and I 
don’t think it will work in the upcoming 2.1.0 release. Probably will be fixed 
after that.


> On Mar 13, 2017, at 5:17 AM, Adam Sylvester <op8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As a follow-up, I tried this with Open MPI 1.10.4 and this worked as expected 
> (the port formatting looks really different):
> 
> $ mpirun -np 1 ./server
> Port name is 
> 1286733824.0;tcp://10.102.16.135:43074+1286733825.0;tcp://10.102.16.135::300
> Accepted!
> 
> $ mpirun -np 1 ./client 
> "1286733824.0;tcp://10.102.16.135:43074+1286733825.0;tcp://10.102.16.135::300"
> Trying with 
> '1286733824.0;tcp://10.102.16.135:43074+1286733825.0;tcp://10.102.16.135::300'
> Connected!
> 
> I've found some other posts of users asking about similar things regarding 
> the 2.x release - is this a bug?
> 
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Adam Sylvester <op8...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:op8...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I'm using Open MPI 2.0.2 on RHEL 7.  I'm trying to use MPI_Open_port() / 
> MPI_Comm_accept() / MPI_Conn_connect().  My use case is that I'll have two 
> processes running on two machines that don't initially know about each other 
> (i.e. I can't do the typical mpirun with a list of IPs); eventually I think I 
> may need to use ompi-server to accomplish what I want but for now I'm trying 
> to test this out running two processes on the same machine with some toy 
> programs.
> 
> server.cpp creates the port, prints it, and waits for a client to accept 
> using it:
> 
> #include <mpi.h>
> #include <iostream>
> 
> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
>     MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);
> 
>     char myport[MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME];
>     MPI_Comm intercomm;
> 
>     MPI_Open_port(MPI_INFO_NULL, myport);
>     std::cout << "Port name is " << myport << std::endl;
> 
>     MPI_Comm_accept(myport, MPI_INFO_NULL, 0, MPI_COMM_SELF, &intercomm);
> 
>     std::cout << "Accepted!" << std::endl;
> 
>     MPI_Finalize();
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> client.cpp takes in this port on the command line and tries to connect to it:
> 
> #include <mpi.h>
> #include <iostream>
> 
> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
>     MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);
> 
>     MPI_Comm intercomm;
> 
>     const std::string name(argv[1]);
>     std::cout << "Trying with '" << name << "'" << std::endl;
>     MPI_Comm_connect(name.c_str(), MPI_INFO_NULL, 0, MPI_COMM_SELF, 
> &intercomm);
> 
>     std::cout << "Connected!" << std::endl;
> 
>     MPI_Finalize();
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> I run the server first:
> $ mpirun ./server
> Port name is 2720137217.0:595361386
> 
> Then a second later I run the client:
> $ mpirun ./client 2720137217.0:595361386
> Trying with '2720137217.0:595361386'
> 
> Both programs hang for awhile and then eventually time out.  I have a feeling 
> I'm misunderstanding something and doing something dumb but from all the 
> examples I've seen online it seems like this should work.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> -Adam
> 
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