On 5/29/07, gary thompson <garyt.and.sarahb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Ed On 5/29/07, Edward d'Auvergne < edward.dauvergne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/18/07, Gary S. Thompson <garyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Edward d'Auvergne wrote: > > > > >On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 13:59 +0100, Gary S. Thompson wrote: > > [snip] > > > >If using '-np 6', shouldn't the number of slaves be 6? > > > > > nope there needs to be one processor which is the master and you just > > tell mpi how many prcoessors you want ( I will investigate running jobs > > on the master in a thread at some point (maybe never depending ;-)) but > > this places extra requirements on the mpi implimentation and is thus a > > special case, I can give more details if you want me to) > > I would personally avoid running one of the calculations on the master. In general yes I agree, however, if you have a small cluster this is quite a waste
Can this be done as a slave MPI process on the master? Edward