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Message-ID: <127653821fe5ec41783220cb43553330@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 19:55:04 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: MPI signalling
Lukas, Sayantan, or anyone else knowing MPI -
Do you know what would be the right MPI mechanism for just sending a
trival "signal" to other processes, much like a SIGUSR1 but across
network? There's got to be something suitable.
Background: When we use --fork and the mother needs to tell children
they should re-sync the pot file, it sends them a SIGUSR2 (in latest
bleeding). If a child wants to initiate the same thing, it sends the
mother a SIGUSR2, and mother relays to other children.
With MPI, I thought I'd use MPI_Isend() for the sender, and receivers
check for that with MPI_Irecv() once in a while using a timer, but it
turns out that while it's asynchronous, it's still not of the kind I
want because if I do an MPI_Irecv(), it will wait forever (though non
blocking) for a message. That is not what I want: What I need is more of
a "was there anything sent to me?" function that may return "nope, it
wasn't".
magnum
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