MPI dies

[Victor Karyo]

Is there a technique to handle node failure?  Shortly, I'll be working on an 
that algorithm is naturally parallel and divided into course-grain "blocks". 
  I want to use a master/worker scheme.  The master is to be set to reissue 
blocks if the block doesn't return from the worker fast enough on the 
assumption the node has failed.  I know I can't rejoin a node after it 
fails, but if the node fails will the whole app die?

Also, is there a way to detect the number of nodes other than at 
initialization, so I can tell if a node has died?

(I plan on using MPI-Pro on a RH6.2 8-way single-proc Intel cluster with 
100mbps switched ethernet.)

Thanks
Victor Karyo.




There are some efforts to build fault tolerating MPI's, but standard
MPI-1.x is supposed to kill the parallel application if a node dies,
or else the underlying system must transparently solve the fault.


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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:

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