Hi Niyaz,
Yes, you can use the -rankmap option to specify a full rank ordering. The syntax for rankmap string is:
```
/* rankmap string format (used in PMI_process_mapping) in ABNF:
*
* mapping = '(' format ',' (block / block_repeats) *[',' (block / block_repeats)] ')'
* format = 'vector'
* block = num / '(' num ',' num ',' num ')'
* block_repeats = '[' block *[',' block] ']x' num
* num = 1*DIGIT
*
* If a block is in 3-tuple of (X,Y,Z), the meaning is:
* X - node id start value
* Y - number of nodes with size Z
* Z - number of processes assigned to each node
*
* If a block is a single number id, it denotes the node id, which is equivallen to
* (id, 1, 1).
*
* A block_repeat repeats the bracketed block list by num of times.
*/
```
What Joachim points out is that you can set a rank of 2, 3, 20, 30 if your total number of processes is 4. You can only order the processes.
Hope that helps.
--
Hui
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Am actually trying to understand how/if I can pin a rank to a process .. also pin a core to a process. From: Niyaz Murshed via discuss <discuss@ mpich. org> Date: Monday, July 1, 2024 at 2: 34 PM To: Jenke, Joachim <jenke@ itc. rwth-aachen. de>,
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Subject: Re: Custom rank for processes
MPI defines rank numbers to be consecutive from 0 to size-1. Your suggested numbering will not work.
-Joachim
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Subject: [mpich-discuss] Custom rank for processes
Hello, Is it possible to provide custom ranks to processes ? I see a param called “-rankmap” .. Does it provide this option? Is it possible to do something like below : Node1 => 2 processes => rank 2,3 Node2 => 2 processes => rank
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Hello,
Is it possible to provide custom ranks to processes ?
I see a param called “-rankmap” .. Does it provide this option?
Is it possible to do something like below :
Node1 => 2 processes => rank 2,3
Node2 => 2 processes => rank 20,30
Thanks.
