[MPICH] Binding and instance of the MPI program to a particular processor

[chong tan]

I think processor_bind is for light-weighted-thread/process.  When I met with SUN few months ago, they recommended pbind.  

Although it is painful, but pain == gain.  


tan


----- Original Message ----
From: William Gropp <gropp at mcs.anl.gov>
To: Christina Patrick <christina.subscribes at gmail.com>
Cc: Rajeev Thakur <thakur at mcs.anl.gov>; mpich-discuss-digest at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:01:16 AM
Subject: Re: [MPICH] Binding and instance of the MPI program to a particular processor

There also appears to be a processor_bind routine that you can call.  You might try using that just after MPI_Init.  Let us know how that works; we could add that to mpiexec.
Bill


On Jun 21, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Christina Patrick wrote:


Is it possible for me to modify the Python script (mpiexec) in such a way that I use the pbind command to bind each instance of the executing program to a different processor? I would like to give that a shot.
 
Warm Regards,
Christina.

 
On 6/20/07, Rajeev Thakur <thakur at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: 
MPICH2 leaves the scheduling of processes to the OS. If the OS has some way
to bind processes to processors, you could try using it. 

Rajeev

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov ] On Behalf Of
> Christina Patrick
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:12 PM
> To: mpich-discuss-digest at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [MPICH] Binding and instance of the MPI program to a 
> particular processor
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am having a 8 processor Solaris 9 machine and I want to
> execute an MPI program on it. The problem is that the tasks
> created by mpiexec keep migrating on the different 
> processors. Since it is only one machine, there is only one
> instance of the mpdboot daemon running on the machine. Hence
> when I execute the below command on the machine with 8
> processors, I get an output that says: 
>
> (For example, if the MPI program name is "finalized")
> # mpiexec -n 8 ./finalized
> 0:  No Errors
>
> When I examined the system using the "prstat" command, I
> observed that the tasks are migrating between the different
> processors.
>
> Is there any why in which I could bind each instance of the
> MPI program to a different processor.
>
> Your suggesstions and help is appreciated, 
>
> Thanks,
> Christina.
>


 
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