Question

I got my first MPICH2 program up and running in LAN on two PCs. The command that I am typing at the client is:

root@ubuntu:/home# mpiexec -f hosts.cfg -n 4 ./hello
Hello world from process 3 of 4
Hello world from process 2 of 4
Hello world from process 1 of 4
Hello world from process 0 of 4

My program is this:

/* C Example */
#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
  int rank, size;

  MPI_Init (&argc, &argv);      /* starts MPI */
  MPI_Comm_rank (MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);        /* get current process id */
  MPI_Comm_size (MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);        /* get number of processes */
  printf( "Hello world from process %d of %d\n", rank, size );
  MPI_Finalize();
  return 0;
}

I locally compiled MPI_hello.c to get executables on each machine.

I want to modify the code so that it must prints something like this:

Hello world from process 3 running on PC2 of 4
Hello world from process 2 running on PC2 of 4
Hello world from process 1 running on PC1 of 4
Hello world from process 0 running on PC1 of 4

PC1 and PC2 are the names of the two PCs my MPI program is supposed to run. So basically I am looking for an API that will fetch the name of the computer along with each process.

How do I do this?

Update

damienfrancois's both answers worked perfectly well. Here is my output:

root@ubuntu:/home# mpiexec -f hosts.cfg -n 4 ./hello
Hello world from process 1 running on PC1 of 4
Hello world from process 3 running on PC1 of 4
Hello world from process 2 running on PC2 of 4
Hello world from process 0 running on PC2 of 4

The assignment of the process id is a matter of affinity , which has to be mentioned in the hosts.cfg file

Was it helpful?

Solution

One option is to use the gethostname(2) system call:

/* C Example */
#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
  int rank, size;
  int buffer_length = 512;
  char hostname[buffer_length];


  MPI_Init (&argc, &argv);      /* starts MPI */
  MPI_Comm_rank (MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);        /* get current process id */
  MPI_Comm_size (MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);        /* get number of processes */

  gethostname(hostname, buffer_length); /* get hostname */

  printf( "Hello world from process %d running on %s of %d\n", rank, hostname, size );
  MPI_Finalize();
  return 0;
}

Another is to use MPI_Get_processor_name:

/* C Example */
#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
  int rank, size;
  int buffer_length = MPI_MAX_PROCESSOR_NAME;
  char hostname[buffer_length];

  MPI_Init (&argc, &argv);      /* starts MPI */
  MPI_Comm_rank (MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);        /* get current process id */
  MPI_Comm_size (MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);        /* get number of processes */

  MPI_Get_processor_name(hostname, &buffer_length); /* get hostname */

  printf( "Hello world from process %d running on %s of %d\n", rank, hostname, size );
  MPI_Finalize();
  return 0;
}
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