[mpich-discuss] hydra and PBS

[Pavan Balaji]

> Could you please also tell me if it's possible to set up a master/slave 
> type job using mpiexec.hydra. That is the equivalent of something like
> 
> mpiexec -machinefile $PBS_NODEFILE -np 1 ./master : -np 3 ./slave

This should work, except mpiexec takes the option "-f" instead of 
"-machinefile". I'll add in an alias to "-machinefile" to do the same 
thing in the next release; it might be useful.

  -- Pavan

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