Re: --mx-kill

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Chris, et al,

The Peter Wykoff's mpiexec at the OSC site is an excellent
solution for Torque; however, it does not work with PBSpro
nor Loadleveler; the latter being the resource manager
for this current installation.  For cluster using Torque
I would recommend it myself for the reasons you gave.

(Sometimes a "me too" is just an appropriate response :)

george wm turner
uits/rats @ indiana university
812 855 5156

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Chris Samuel wrote:

> On Thursday 14 September 2006 09:34, george wm turner wrote:
>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0As SysAdmins, we're thinking of making --mx-kill 60 the
>> default on our mpirun commands to force clean up of orphans
>> left behind when user's codes error out.
>
> If you're using Torque then have you considered using Pete Wyckoff's exce=
llent
> mpiexec instead ?
>
> That will talk directly to the pbs_mom's to get its information and to st=
art
> the processes using the TM interface. Much neater all round, PBS gets to
> monitor the processes CPU times more accurately and it is directly aware =
of
> processes dieing.
>> [appended from 2nd message]
>> ...and here's the link..
>>=20
>> http://www.osc.edu/~pw/mpiexec/index.php
>>
>
> cheers,
> Chris
> --=20
> Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager
> Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/
> Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia
>
>
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