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From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-12 17:59:36


On Sep 12, 2004, at 6:56 PM, William Bierman wrote:

> So the next logical question is whether it is good practice to make
> each user su to the lamd user prior to running their processes,
> keeping in mind there will eventually be simultaneous processes?

Yikes! No!

It's really not a big deal for users to run lamboot / lamhalt
themselves. This actually gives them a discrete "universe" to play in
that won't interfere with other people's MPI jobs.

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{+} Jeff Squyres
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