Re: [BProc] Beowulf with dual boxes policy

[Erik A. H. <er...@he...>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:04:33AM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> And how do I make bproc (or MPI) know there are two processors on the box 
> (ie, two possible slave processes of the same master could run there) ?
> Suppose I add one other box with just 1 cpu...I should have 11 slaves.
> I know that part of the question is MPI or PVM specific (I remember somthing
> like weights in PVM, do not know about MPI). But can this be done
> at the bproc level ?

I believe you can simply list appropriate hosts twice to get MPI to
run multiple jobs on a single host.  BProc is not a scheduler or a
message passing library so it doesn't handle any aspect of this.

- Erik
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