[padb] Réf. : Re: Réf. : Re: Patch of support of Slurm + Openmpi Orte manager

[Sylvain Jeaugey]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, thipadin.seng-long at bull.net wrote:

> But no one can prevent somebody to start jobs like this since the syntax 
> is correct,
Actually we can. The documentation says : use salloc ... mpirun, not 
salloc srun -n 1 mpirun. And I wouldn't say that the syntax is correct. It 
just *happens* to work. With this command, you're launching this chain :
  salloc -> srun -> mpirun -> srun -> MPI processes
We're lucky it works !

> So if some one start jobs like this, padb should be able to support.
I disagree. Since this has no added value, I don't see why we should 
support it. But if that's only one extra line of code, then let it be ...

Sylvain