From: salo@cray.com (Eric Salo)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: How to kill mpi processes?
Date: 28 Aug 1998 08:24:39 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Message-Id: <6s5pg7$has$1@walter-fddi.cray.com>
References: <35E6741F.15A408CF@altavista.net>


> How can I kill mpi-programs in a C-program
> (UNIX, I'm using mpich 1.1) when the only thing
> I know is the process ID of the associated
> mpirun? I tried to kill mpirun with SIGKILL or
> SIGINT, but the mpi-processes keep running..

This is completely dependent on the specific implementation
that you are using. Under our implementation, for example,
sending a SIGINT to mpirun (ctrl-c is the easiest way) will
in fact kill the entire cluster-wide job.

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Eric Salo      Silicon Graphics      salo@sgi.com