[mpich-discuss] MPICH_PORT_RANGE

Pavan Balaji balaji at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Jan 23 13:04:18 CST 2013


Hi Judy,

We haven't tracked the number of ports that we need to create, but it'll
be around 3-4 persistent ports + all the per-process ephemeral ports for
inter-process connections that are setup on-demand.

 -- Pavan

On 01/23/2013 10:07 AM US Central Time, Jody Steadman wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> What is the minimum number of ports required by MPICH for a single run?
> I’m in a situation where I need to limit the amount of ports in an
> environment, but could not find any documentation that says for each run
> MPICH needs x number of ports available in the range.
> 
> I’m using MPICH version 1.4.1p1 with Hydra.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jody  
> 
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Pavan Balaji
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