[R-sig-Debian] rmpi/snow grabs all available CPU

[Faheem Mitha]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
> On 8 May 2008 at 14:04, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> | Thanks for the tips. I'll give it a try, but it seems likely that moving
> | back to lam might be the simplest route, till the openmpi people get their
> | stuff sorted out. I hope they reconsider the whole "CPUs running at full
> | tilt" thing. Regardless what they say, I think it is obnoxious and
> | unnecessary (since none of the other MPI implementations do this)
> | behavior.
>
> I can only urge to resist the tempation to leave ompi for lam. Check out the
> ompi docs; I have been lurking on their lists since we revitalised Debian's
> (then dead) open mpi packages.  It is excellent code, the team (from the
> likes of llnl.gov, cisco, hp and a few universities) is first rate and very
> committed. Also, as noted, lam is dead and will not be developed further.
>
> Plus, under Debian you get the slurm batch process managing tools that need
> ompi and won't work with lam.
>
> My $0.02, and your call.   This is off-topic now for r-sig-debian and I'll
> stop here.
>
> Enjoy, Dirk

Hi Dirk,

Thanks for your advice. I appreciate your interest.

I've never heard of slurm before. Sounds like something out of a comic 
fantasy novel.
                                  Take care, Faheem.