rmpi/snow grabs all available CPU
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 8 May 2008 at 14:04, Faheem Mitha wrote: | Thanks for the tips. I'll give it a try, but it seems likely that moving | back to lam might be the simplest route, till the openmpi people get their | stuff sorted out. I hope they reconsider the whole "CPUs running at full | tilt" thing. Regardless what they say, I think it is obnoxious and | unnecessary (since none of the other MPI implementations do this) | behavior. I can only urge to resist the tempation to leave ompi for lam. Check out the ompi docs; I have been lurking on their lists since we revitalised Debian's (then dead) open mpi packages. It is excellent code, the team (from the likes of llnl.gov, cisco, hp and a few universities) is first rate and very committed. Also, as noted, lam is dead and will not be developed further. Plus, under Debian you get the slurm batch process managing tools that need ompi and won't work with lam. My $0.02, and your call. This is off-topic now for r-sig-debian and I'll stop here. Enjoy, Dirk
Hi Dirk,
Thanks for your advice. I appreciate your interest.
I've never heard of slurm before. Sounds like something out of a comic
fantasy novel.
Take care, Faheem.