Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805081438310.16401@orwell.homelinux.org>
Date: 2008-05-08T18:40:53Z
From: Faheem Mitha
Subject: rmpi/snow grabs all available CPU
In-Reply-To: <18467.17897.640348.966793@ron.nulle.part>
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.