On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Volodymyr Babin <vbabin.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> I checked in the new rules to Makefile. People can feel free to
>> remove it if they think it's pointless. But I agree with Lachele that
>> there should probably be some documentation about it (at least some
>> blurb in the README).
>
> The rules are very convenient indeed. Another option (less flexible,
> but potentially more automatic) would be to set -np inside the Makefile
>
> sh$ export DO_PARALLEL='command -np AMBER_NTHREADS'
The problem with this is that not all MPIs use the same flag to
represent the number of threads. For instance, mpiexec for many MPIs
uses -n instead. -c is another common option. I don't think there's
any way of generalizing this to any MPI a user might have installed.
We could, of course, always make it only compliant with the included
MPIs (openMPI and lam) that can be built with amber. What trade-offs
for automation/flexibility should we make? I don't think there's any
'right' answer.
Another thing about the rules, is DO_PARALLEL still has to be set to
use the right number of processors, or every single test will give the
message 'need 4 threads', etc. I also may not have caught all of
them, since I only added the ones that printed messages to stdout
during the course of the test.
Thanks!
Jason
>
> in the Makefile:
>
> user_DO_PARALLEL="$DO_PARALLEL"
>
> for n in 2 4 8 16;
> do
> export DO_PARALLEL=`echo $user_DO_PARALLEL | sed -e "s/AMBER_NTHREADS/$n/"`
> echo "Using DO_PARALLEL=$DO_PARALLEL"
> <run tests>
> done
>
> Best,
>
> Volodymyr
>
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