[mpich-discuss] inconsistency in the man page of mpiexec

[William Gropp]

-file is one of the arguments that the MPI standard specifies that  
mpiexec should accept.  This is not the same as the "-machinefile",  
which is an option specific to a particularly implementation of mpiexec.

Bill

On Oct 21, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:

> The manpage of mpiexec
> (INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY/share/man/man1/mpiexec.1from 1.0.8rc1)
> describes the option
>
>       -file <name>
>              - implementation-defined specification file
>
> I think this should be "-machinefile" instead of "-file". According to
> "mpiexec --help" there is no such option as -file for mpiexec.
>
> hth
> raju
>

William Gropp
Deputy Director for Research
Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign