[mpich-discuss] Runtime config file

[Pavan Balaji]

On 02/17/2011 06:06 PM, Saurabh T wrote:
> Thanks. Please note that anything here should be overridable.
> Currently if you supply two -fs or a -f and -hosts, mpiexec gives an
> error, so I gotta watch out for that in the script I wrote. I dont
> personally like this behaviour because it assumes the user doesnt
> know what he's doing. It should use priority: system<  user<  command
> line and ideally even on command line the last one among competing
> options should "win".

That depends on what you prefer -- higher configurability or higher 
error checking. We chose to go with higher error checking.

  -- Pavan

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