[Mpi3-ft] Ticket #307: Behavior of MPI_INIT after failure to initialize

Richard Graham richardg at mellanox.com
Wed May 8 10:23:55 CDT 2013


I do not thing there was any conclusion here - this is even true when one is not worrying about FT.  What do you do when mpirun does not give you the number of process you asked for ?  Before MPI_INIT we are not guaranteed to have more than a single "process".

Rich

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Subject: Re: [Mpi3-ft] Ticket #307: Behavior of MPI_INIT after failure to initialize

Is there anything else from this ticket that we would find useful before killing it? For example, all of the text we have about MPI_INIT in ULFM is in an advice to implementors. Should we move anything to normative text?

On May 8, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Aurélien Bouteiller <bouteill at icl.utk.edu> wrote:

> My memory is that this ticket has been combined, upgraded and included into ULFM. 
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> Le 7 mai 2013 à 17:40, Wesley Bland <wbland at mcs.anl.gov> a écrit :
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>> author: jjhursey
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>> https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/307
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>> This ticket specifies the behavior of the MPI library after a during MPI_INIT. Basically, if there is a failure during INIT, the library should return an appropriate return code and calling any other MPI function (with a few exceptions) is erroneous and will trigger the error handler for MPI_COMM_WORLD, which by default is MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL and cannot be changed in this instance.
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>> Again, this ticket has no discussion attached to it. I remember some discussions from the RTS proposal days, but I don't remember the results of any of those discussions. Can anyone else bring this back to light?
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