My best guess is that SLURM has only allocated 2 slots, and we respect the RM 
regardless of what you say in the hostfile. You can check this by adding 
--display-allocation to your cmd line. You probably need to tell slurm to 
allocate more cpus/node.


> On Sep 7, 2017, at 3:33 AM, Maksym Planeta <mplan...@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to tell OpenMPI how many processes per node I want to use, but 
> mpirun seems to ignore the configuration I provide.
> 
> I create following hostfile:
> 
> $ cat hostfile.16
> taurusi6344 slots=16
> taurusi6348 slots=16
> 
> And then start the app as follows:
> 
> $ mpirun --display-map   -machinefile hostfile.16 -np 2 hostname
> Data for JOB [42099,1] offset 0
> 
> ========================   JOB MAP   ========================
> 
> Data for node: taurusi6344     Num slots: 1    Max slots: 0    Num procs: 1
>        Process OMPI jobid: [42099,1] App: 0 Process rank: 0 Bound: socket 
> 0[core 0[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 1[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 2[hwt 0]], socket 
> 0[core 3[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 4[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 5[hwt 0]], socket 
> 0[core 6[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 7[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 8[hwt 0]], socket 
> 0[core 9[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 10[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 11[hwt 
> 0]]:[B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B][./././././././././././.]
> 
> Data for node: taurusi6348     Num slots: 1    Max slots: 0    Num procs: 1
>        Process OMPI jobid: [42099,1] App: 0 Process rank: 1 Bound: socket 
> 0[core 0[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 1[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 2[hwt 0]], socket 
> 0[core 3[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 4[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 5[hwt 0]], socket 
> 0[core 6[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 7[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 8[hwt 0]], socket 
> 0[core 9[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 10[hwt 0]], socket 0[core 11[hwt 
> 0]]:[B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B][./././././././././././.]
> 
> =============================================================
> taurusi6344
> taurusi6348
> 
> If I put anything more than 2 in "-np 2", I get following error message:
> 
> $ mpirun --display-map   -machinefile hostfile.16 -np 4 hostname
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the 4 slots
> that were requested by the application:
>  hostname
> 
> Either request fewer slots for your application, or make more slots available
> for use.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The OpenMPI version is "mpirun (Open MPI) 2.1.0"
> 
> Also there is SLURM installed with version "slurm 
> 16.05.7-Bull.1.1-20170512-1252"
> 
> Could you help me to enforce OpenMPI to respect slots paremeter?
> -- 
> Regards,
> Maksym Planeta
> 
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