[mvapich-discuss] How to Specify Processes Per Node With mvapich

[Jonathan Perkins]

Yes Susan, you are correct.  We'll look into adding this option to mpirun_rsh.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Susan A. Schwarz
<Susan.A.Schwarz at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for your email. So you are saying that I need to make my own hostfile
> and since I am using torque, I am going to have to have my submit script
> read the $PBS_NODEFILE and then make a hostfile to use with the mpirun_rsh
> command. Is that correct?
>
> It would be nice to have a "ppn" command line option in a future version!
>
> Susan
>
>
>
> On 04/22/2014 01:30 PM, Jonathan Perkins wrote:
>>
>> Hello Susan.
>>
>> In order to control the number of processes per node with mpirun_rsh
>> you will need to provide a hostfile and use the extended syntax for
>> each hostname.
>>
>> For example:
>> $ cat hostfile
>> node1:8
>> node2:8
>> node3:8
>> node4:8
>>
>> When using this hostfile mpirun_rsh will place 8 processes for each
>> node.  Please see section 5.2.1 of our userguide for more information
>> on how to use this
>>
>> (http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/support/user_guide_mvapich2-1.9.html#x1-250005.2.1).
>>
>> I think that you will also be happy to find that mvapich2 also
>> provides the same hydra (mpiexec) as mpich so that you can run your
>> mpich and mvapich2 jobs using the same process.  Section 5.2.2 of our
>> userguide provides a brief overview of this as well
>>
>> (http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/support/user_guide_mvapich2-1.9.html#x1-330005.2.2).
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Susan A. Schwarz
>> <Susan.A.Schwarz at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running mvapich2 v1.9 on a CentOS 6.5 cluster with torque 4.2.6.1. I
>>> need to be able to be able to specify the number of processes per node
>>> when
>>> I start my mvapich program. If I was using mpich and starting my program
>>> with mpirun or mpiexec,  I would use the "-ppn" option.  I don't see any
>>> arguments similar to that when I use mpirun_rsh to start my mvapich
>>> program.
>>>
>>> We used to use the OSU mpiexec v0.84  before we upgraded our cluster to
>>> use
>>> Centos 6.5 and torque 4.2.6.1 but now I can't get my mvapich2 programs to
>>> launch with mpiexec so I can't take advantage of the "-npernode" option.
>>> I
>>> get a fatal error in MPI_Init when I launch my mvapich2 program with
>>> mpiexec.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to start my mvapich program and specify the number of
>>> processes per node.
>>>
>>> thank you,
>>> Susan Schwarz
>>> Research Computing
>>> Dartmouth College
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
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Jonathan Perkins
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