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Ralph Castain 85df3bd92f Bring in the generalized xcast communication system along with the correspondingly revised orted launch. I will send a message out to developers explaining the basic changes. In brief:
1. generalize orte_rml.xcast to become a general broadcast-like messaging system. Messages can now be sent to any tag on the daemons or processes. Note that any message sent via xcast will be delivered to ALL processes in the specified job - you don't get to pick and choose. At a later date, we will introduce an augmented capability that will use the daemons as relays, but will allow you to send to a specified array of process names.

2. extended orte_rml.xcast so it supports more scalable message routing methodologies. At the moment, we support three: (a) direct, which sends the message directly to all recipients; (b) linear, which sends the message to the local daemon on each node, which then relays it to its own local procs; and (b) binomial, which sends the message via a binomial algo across all the daemons, each of which then relays to its own local procs. The crossover points between the algos are adjustable via MCA param, or you can simply demand that a specific algo be used.

3. orteds no longer exhibit two types of behavior: bootproxy or VM. Orteds now always behave like they are part of a virtual machine - they simply launch a job if mpirun tells them to do so. This is another step towards creating an "orteboot" functionality, but also provided a clean system for supporting message relaying.

Note one major impact of this commit: multiple daemons on a node cannot be supported any longer! Only a single daemon/node is now allowed.

This commit is known to break support for the following environments: POE, Xgrid, Xcpu, Windows. It has been tested on rsh, SLURM, and Bproc. Modifications for TM support have been made but could not be verified due to machine problems at LANL. Modifications for SGE have been made but could not be verified. The developers for the non-verified environments will be separately notified along with suggestions on how to fix the problems.

This commit was SVN r15007.
2007-06-12 13:28:54 +00:00
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dss Commit the orted-failed-to-start code. This correctly causes the system to detect the failure of an orted to start and allows the system to terminate all procs/orteds that *did* start. 2007-05-21 18:31:28 +00:00
gpr Bring in the generalized xcast communication system along with the correspondingly revised orted launch. I will send a message out to developers explaining the basic changes. In brief: 2007-06-12 13:28:54 +00:00
ns Eliminate virtually all of the attribute_predefined data from the STG1 message. We now compute the total number of slots allocated to us and save that in the registry - the attributed_predefined then retrieves it via the STG1 message. The app_num is passed via the process_info structure, which gets the value from the ODLS in the environment. 2006-12-07 03:11:20 +00:00