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From: Brian Barrett (brbarret_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-05 07:56:03


On May 5, 2005, at 12:32 AM, gsaxena_at_[hidden] wrote:

> Question for LAM members:
> Is there a signalling mechanism through which the
> root process may be able to notify other nodes to quit their
> jobs and finalize ?
>

I think David Cronk had a nice response to this question in your
other e-mail thread. You're best off using "control" messages
between MPI applications

> An interesting far-sight:
> any thoughts as to how error handling be addressed in such an
> application?
>

Take a look at the LAM example "fault" in the LAM source tarball
(lam-7.1.x/examples/fault/). It should do about what you are looking
for.

Hope this helps,

Brian