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    Hi Jeff,<br>
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    Yes I want to pause the job to have more resources available, so
    maybe I need to think about SLURM as a scheduler.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/08/2015 05:18 PM, Jeff Hammond
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      <div dir="ltr">Nodes and cores are *hardware* concepts.  If you
        need to add hardware resources to your job, that is a resource
        manager issue.  If you want to create new MPI processes _that
        will run on those new nodes/cores_, you can use MPI_Comm_spawn
        for that.
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        <div>As for pausing a job, I'm not sure why you want to do
          that.  Are you trying to suspect the job until the new
          hardware resources become available?</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:08 PM, wahi <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:wahi@sci.am" target="_blank">wahi@sci.am</a>></span>
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            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Jeff,<br>
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              Thank you for your reply, I think the MPI_COMM_Spawn is
              for generating new processes but I need to add more node
              or cores after pausing the job, am I right ?
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                  <div>On 10/08/2015 08:11 AM, Jeff Hammond wrote:<br>
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                  <blockquote type="cite">See MPI_Comm_spawn(_multiple).
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                    <div>Jeff <span></span><br>
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                      On Wednesday, October 7, 2015, Zhao, Xin <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:xinzhao3@illinois.edu" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:xinzhao3@illinois.edu">xinzhao3@illinois.edu</a></a>>
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                        solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Wahi,<br>
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                        Do you mean you want to change number of hosts
                        during one MPI execution? If so, we think that
                        is not possible.<br>
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                        Xin<br>
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                        From: wahi [<a moz-do-not-send="true">wahi@sci.am</a>]<br>
                        Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 2:43 AM<br>
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                        Subject: [mpich-discuss] Can the MPICH job pause
                        and resumed<br>
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                        Hi,<br>
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                        I would like to know if there is possibility to
                        pause the MPICH job and<br>
                        restart it with more node numbers ?<br>
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                        Thanks in advance for any help or suggestion.<br>
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                        Regards,<br>
                          Wahi<br>
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