[mvapich-discuss] Followup on hydra vs. mpirun_rsh for large scale jobs

[Jonathan Perkins]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:54:42AM -0600, Craig Tierney wrote:
> This is a followup to a recent thread regarding which launcher the
> MVAPICH team recommends for large jobs.  Are there plans to add MPMD
> launching to the mpiexec.mpirun_rsh command line syntax?  Currently it
> can be done via a config file, but most other systems that my users
> work with can use the colon syntax like what is available through
> mpiexec.hydra.

Thanks for the note Craig.  Supporting that syntax is in the long term
plans for mpiexec.mpirun_rsh.  We should have this in one of our future
releases.

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Jonathan Perkins
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