[MPICH] separate master and slave programs?

[Syed Irfan]

Hello Rusty,

Ahh beautiful, thanks for the pointer, I totally overlooked the mpiexec 
part in the document.

Thanks,
Irfan

Rusty Lusk wrote:

>From: Syed Irfan <irfan at itee.uq.edu.au>
>Subject: [MPICH] separate master and slave programs?
>Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:48:31 +1000
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>>Hello,
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>>Is it possible to have separate programs for master code and slave code? 
>>Because if there is MPI_Init(), MPI_Comm_rank() etc. in the 2 programs 
>>they will be having 2 separate communication domains etc. Any 
>>suggestions on if this is possible or how to go about this?
>>
>>thanks,
>>Irfan
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>Whether this is possible or not depends on the MPI implementation.  It
>is certainly possible with MPICH and MPICH2.  The documentation for
>the standard mpiexec (in MPICH2) explains how to do it.
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>Rusty Lusk
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