[mpich-discuss] MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium

Thu Feb 17 09:56:08 CST 2011

Hi,
 Good to know MPICH2 is working for you now. We recommend users to turn off the Windows firewall or follow the instructions in Section 9.5 of the Windows developer's guide (available at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/documentation/files/mpich2-1.3.2-windevguide.pdf) on how to use MPICH2 with firewalls.
 The guide also has sections to help users compile their MPI programs on Windows.

Regards,
Jayesh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Koh Voon Li" <kohvoonli at gmail.com>
To: "Jayesh Krishna" <jayesh at mcs.anl.gov>
Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:06:42 AM
Subject: Re: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium

Hi Jayesh, 

After tried so many solution, finally I was able to get it run over my Window cluster. But it can only run when I turned off my Window's firewall. Is there anyway for me to run the job while firewall is on? 
Thanks. 

Regards, 
Koh 

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Koh Voon Li < kohvoonli at gmail.com > wrote: 

Hi, 

Yes. I took it from 1.3.1. I tried to recomile the cpi.exe with 1.2.1 but here is the error message I got from the compiler: 

1>------ Build started: Project: test, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 
1> cpi.cpp 
1>cpi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Finalize referenced in function _main 
1>cpi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Reduce referenced in function _main 
1>cpi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Bcast referenced in function _main 
1>cpi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Wtime referenced in function _main 
1>cpi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Get_processor_name referenced in function _main 
1>cpi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Comm_rank referenced in function _main 
1>cpi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Comm_size referenced in function _main 
1>cpi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Init referenced in function _main 
1>c:\users\win 7\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\test\Debug\test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 8 unresolved externals 
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== 

Sorry as I am not good in programming. I don't know what exactly went wrong with the process. 
Thanks. 

Regards, 
Koh 

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Jayesh Krishna < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > wrote: 

Hi, 
Did you take cpi.exe from 1.3.1 ? You will have to recompile the program to use it with 1.2.1. 
The Microsoft Visual Studio Express editions should be available for free. You could also try installing Cygwin and using gcc from Cygwin to compile the code. If you are not able to compile an MPI program you might have better luck with your question from the fds user community. 

Regards, 
Jayesh 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Koh Voon Li" < kohvoonli at gmail.com > 
To: "Jayesh Krishna" < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > 
Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov 

Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:10:54 AM 
Subject: Re: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium 

Hi, 

I have tried to run the example application cpi.exe and here is the error message I got: 

D:>mpiexec -hosts 2 WIN7-PC 1 user-PC 1 cpi 

job aborted: 
process: node: exit code: error message: 
0: localhost: 13: Fatal error in MPI_Init: 
MPI_Init(138).............: MPI_Init(argc_p=0x000000000012FE2C, 
argv_p=0x000000000012FDB8) failed 
MPIR_Init_thread(329).....: Initialization failed 
MPID_Init(6514)...........: channel initialization failed 
MPIDI_CH3_Init(215).......: 
MPIDI_PG_SetConnInfo(5301): PMI_KVS_Put returned -1, Invalid KVS name 

job aborted: 
process: node: exit code: error message: 
0: localhost: 13: Fatal error in MPI_Init: 
MPI_Init(138).............: MPI_Init(argc_p=0x000000000012FE2C, 
argv_p=0x000000000012FDB8) failed 
MPIR_Init_thread(329).....: Initialization failed 
MPID_Init(6514)...........: channel initialization failed 
MPIDI_CH3_Init(215).......: 
MPIDI_PG_SetConnInfo(5301): PMI_KVS_Put returned -1, Invalid KVS name 

D:\> 

This is what i got when I tried to run on localhost 

D:\>mpiexec -n 6 cpi.exe 

job aborted: 
process: node: exit code: error message: 
0: localhost: 13: Fatal error in MPI_Init: 
MPI_Init(138).............: MPI_Init(argc_p=0x000000000012FE2C, 
argv_p=0x000000000012FDB8) failed 
MPIR_Init_thread(329).....: Initialization failed 
MPID_Init(6514)...........: channel initialization failed 
MPIDI_CH3_Init(215).......: 
MPIDI_PG_SetConnInfo(5301): PMI_KVS_Put returned -1, Invalid KVS name 

job aborted: 
process: node: exit code: error message: 
0: localhost: 13: Fatal error in MPI_Init: 
MPI_Init(138).............: MPI_Init(argc_p=0x000000000012FE2C, 
argv_p=0x000000000012FDB8) failed 
MPIR_Init_thread(329).....: Initialization failed 
MPID_Init(6514)...........: channel initialization failed 
MPIDI_CH3_Init(215).......: 
MPIDI_PG_SetConnInfo(5301): PMI_KVS_Put returned -1, Invalid KVS name 

job aborted: 
process: node: exit code: error message: 
0: localhost: 13: Fatal error in MPI_Init: 
MPI_Init(138).............: MPI_Init(argc_p=0x000000000012FE2C, 
argv_p=0x000000000012FDB8) failed 
MPIR_Init_thread(329).....: Initialization failed 
MPID_Init(6514)...........: channel initialization failed 
MPIDI_CH3_Init(215).......: 
MPIDI_PG_SetConnInfo(5301): PMI_KVS_Put returned -1, Invalid KVS name 

job aborted: 
process: node: exit code: error message: 
0: localhost: 13: Fatal error in MPI_Init: 
MPI_Init(138).............: MPI_Init(argc_p=0x000000000012FE2C, 
argv_p=0x000000000012FDB8) failed 
MPIR_Init_thread(329).....: Initialization failed 
MPID_Init(6514)...........: channel initialization failed 
MPIDI_CH3_Init(215).......: 
MPIDI_PG_SetConnInfo(5301): PMI_KVS_Put returned -1, Invalid KVS name 

job aborted: 
process: node: exit code: error message: 
0: localhost: 13: Fatal error in MPI_Init: 
MPI_Init(138).............: MPI_Init(argc_p=0x000000000012FE2C, 
argv_p=0x000000000012FDB8) failed 
MPIR_Init_thread(329).....: Initialization failed 
MPID_Init(6514)...........: channel initialization failed 
MPIDI_CH3_Init(215).......: 
MPIDI_PG_SetConnInfo(5301): PMI_KVS_Put returned -1, Invalid KVS name 

job aborted: 
process: node: exit code: error message: 
0: localhost: 13: Fatal error in MPI_Init: 
MPI_Init(138).............: MPI_Init(argc_p=0x000000000012FE2C, 
argv_p=0x000000000012FDB8) failed 
MPIR_Init_thread(329).....: Initialization failed 
MPID_Init(6514)...........: channel initialization failed 
MPIDI_CH3_Init(215).......: 
MPIDI_PG_SetConnInfo(5301): PMI_KVS_Put returned -1, Invalid KVS name 

D:\> 

Thanks. 

Regards, 

Koh 

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Koh Voon Li < kohvoonli at gmail.com > wrote: 

Hi, 

I don't have any compiler with me on this computer. I found that after 1.2.1p1 is 1.3.1 which I found there was an issue for FDS to run correctly after 1.2. Any other ways can I get cpi.exe file? 
Thanks. 

Regards, 
Koh 

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Jayesh Krishna < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > wrote: 

Hi, 
The examples might have been added after 1.2.1p1. You can get cpi.c from https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/mpi/mpich2/trunk/examples/cpi.c . 

Regards, 
Jayesh 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Koh Voon Li" < kohvoonli at gmail.com > 
To: "Jayesh Krishna" < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > 
Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov 

Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:25:36 PM 
Subject: Re: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium 

Hi, 

I didn't see any example folder under my MPICH2 directory. My version of MPICH2 is mpich2-1.2.1p1 as I found that the latest version mpich2-1.3.1 did not worked for FDS5. Where can I possibly find the cpi application? 

Thanks. 

Regards, 
Koh 

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Jayesh Krishna < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > wrote: 

Hi, 
The error could be related to the file not being found. You might want to post the issue in the fds5 users list. 
Meanwhile are you able to run cpi.exe (c:\Program Files\MPICH2\examples\cpi.exe) in your cluster ? 

Regards, 
Jayesh 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Koh Voon Li" < kohvoonli at gmail.com > 
To: "Jayesh Krishna" < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > 
Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov 

Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 8:48:08 PM 
Subject: Re: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium 

Hi, 

Thanks Jayesh, it seem work for me now. Here is the message I got by running a simple command. 

C:\>mpiexec -hosts 2 WIN7-PC 3 user-PC 3 c:\program files 
\fds\fds5\bin\fds5_mpi_win_64.exe 
Process 2 of 5 is running on WIN7-PC 
Process 1 of 5 is running on WIN7-PC 
Process 5 of 5 is running on user-PC 
Process 0 of 5 is running on WIN7-PC 
Process 4 of 5 is running on user-PC 
Process 3 of 5 is running on user-PC 

Fire Dynamics Simulator 

Version: 5.5.3; MPI Enabled; OpenMP Disabled 
SVN Revision Number: 7031 
Compile Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 

Consult FDS Users Guide Chapter, Running FDS, for further instructions. 

Hit Enter to Escape... 

job aborted: 
rank: node: exit code[: error message] 
0: WIN7-PC: 123 
1: WIN7-PC: 0: process 1 exited without calling finalize 
2: WIN7-PC: 0: process 2 exited without calling finalize 
3: user-PC: 0: process 3 exited without calling finalize 
4: user-PC: 0: process 4 exited without calling finalize 
5: user-PC: 0: process 5 exited without calling finalize 

But when I tried to run a job, I got error message as below: 

D:\>mpiexec -hosts 2 WIN7-PC 3 user-PC 3 "c:\program files\fds\fds5\bin\fds5_mpi 
_win_64.exe" "\\WIN7-PC\Project\Paradigm\FDS\V16\paradigmv4-16.fds" 
Process 5 of 5 is running on user-PC 
Process 0 of 5 is running on WIN7-PC 
Process 1 of 5 is running on WIN7-PC 
Process 2 of 5 is running on WIN7-PC 
Process 3 of 5 is running on user-PC 
Process 4 of 5 is running on user-PC 
Mesh 1 is assigned to Process 0 
Mesh 2 is assigned to Process 1 
Mesh 3 is assigned to Process 2 
Mesh 4 is assigned to Process 3 
Mesh 5 is assigned to Process 3 
Mesh 6 is assigned to Process 4 
Mesh 7 is assigned to Process 5 
forrtl: severe (29): file not found, unit 4, file C:\Windows\system32\Paradigmv4 
-16.smv 
Image PC Routine Line Source 

fds5_mpi_win_64.e 0000000140589BE8 Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 0000000140584CC9 Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 000000014053CA3D Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 000000014051AE17 Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 000000014051A6E1 Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 00000001404EB76F Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 00000001402FFF2D Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 00000001404A8E58 Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 000000014059338C Unknown Unknown Unknown 
fds5_mpi_win_64.e 000000014056C055 Unknown Unknown Unknown 
kernel32.dll 000000007725F56D Unknown Unknown Unknown 
ntdll.dll 0000000077392CC1 Unknown Unknown Unknown 
Fatal error in PMPI_Barrier: Other MPI error, error stack: 
PMPI_Barrier(476).........................: MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD) failed 
MPIR_Barrier(82)..........................: 
MPIC_Sendrecv(164)........................: 
MPIC_Wait(513)............................: 
MPIDI_CH3i_Progress_wait(215).............: an error occurred while handling an 
event returned by MPIDU_Sock_Wait() 
MPIDI_CH3I_Progress_handle_sock_event(420): 
MPIDU_Sock_wait(2606).....................: The specified network name is no lon 
ger available. (errno 64) 
Fatal error in PMPI_Barrier: Other MPI error, error stack: 
PMPI_Barrier(476).........................: MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD) failed 
MPIR_Barrier(82)..........................: 
MPIC_Sendrecv(164)........................: 
MPIC_Wait(513)............................: 
MPIDI_CH3i_Progress_wait(215).............: an error occurred while handling an 
event returned by MPIDU_Sock_Wait() 
MPIDI_CH3I_Progress_handle_sock_event(420): 
MPIDU_Sock_wait(2606).....................: The specified network name is no lon 
ger available. (errno 64) 

job aborted: 
rank: node: exit code[: error message] 
0: WIN7-PC: 123 
1: WIN7-PC: 123 
2: WIN7-PC: 123 
3: user-PC: 29: process 3 exited without calling finalize 
4: user-PC: 123: Fatal error in PMPI_Barrier: Other MPI error, error stack: 
PMPI_Barrier(476).........................: MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD) failed 
MPIR_Barrier(82)..........................: 
MPIC_Sendrecv(164)........................: 
MPIC_Wait(513)............................: 
MPIDI_CH3i_Progress_wait(215).............: an error occurred while handling an 
event returned by MPIDU_Sock_Wait() 
MPIDI_CH3I_Progress_handle_sock_event(420): 
MPIDU_Sock_wait(2606).....................: The specified network name is no lon 
ger available. (errno 64) 
5: user-PC: 123: Fatal error in PMPI_Barrier: Other MPI error, error stack: 
PMPI_Barrier(476).........................: MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD) failed 
MPIR_Barrier(82)..........................: 
MPIC_Sendrecv(164)........................: 
MPIC_Wait(513)............................: 
MPIDI_CH3i_Progress_wait(215).............: an error occurred while handling an 
event returned by MPIDU_Sock_Wait() 
MPIDI_CH3I_Progress_handle_sock_event(420): 
MPIDU_Sock_wait(2606).....................: The specified network name is no lon 
ger available. (errno 64) 

Is it something has to do with my working directory? As I noticed 1 of the error message I got as highlighted in yellow above said file not found on my Window directory. 

Thanks. 

Regards, 
Koh 

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Jayesh Krishna < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > wrote: 

Hi, 
Yes, you need to have the same username/password on both the machines (Or use a domain user). 
Let us know if it works. 

Regards, 
Jayesh 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Koh Voon Li" < kohvoonli at gmail.com > 
To: "Jayesh Krishna" < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > 
Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov 

Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 7:00:17 PM 
Subject: Re: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium 

Hi, 

Thanks for the replies. The Windows username and password are different between two machine. Do I need to create the same username & password between them so that I able to get access between it? 
Thanks. 

Regards, 
Koh 

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Jayesh Krishna < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > wrote: 

Hi, 
Do you have the same Windows username/password on both the machines ? 

Regards, 
Jayesh 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Koh Voon Li" < kohvoonli at gmail.com > 
To: "Jayesh Krishna" < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > 

Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 7:59:38 PM 
Subject: Re: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium 

Yes. I able registered on both machine. But when I tried to just launch simply command I got error message as stated below: 

C:\>mpiexec -hosts 2 WIN7-PC 1 user-PC 1 "c:\program files\fds\fds5\bin\fds5_mpi 
_win_64.exe" 
abort: Unable to connect to user-PC 

For your information, I have turned off both Window firewall. But still failed to launch any job. 

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Jayesh Krishna < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > wrote: 

Hi, 
Is the username/password valid on the second machine (Do you have the same Windows username/password on the second machine ? )? If so, you should be able to run your job. Are you able to run your job now ? 
Registration of username/password is local to the machine. MPICH2 does not automatically register the same username on all the nodes. If you would like to register username/password on each machine you should register the credentials on each (Type "mpiexec -register" on each). However, to launch your job you need to have the username/password registered only on the machine/node where you launch your job. 

Let us know the results. 

Regards, 
Jayesh 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Koh Voon Li" < kohvoonli at gmail.com > 

To: "Jayesh Krishna" < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:30:16 AM 
Subject: Re: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium 

Hi, 

Thanks for the reply. I was able to registered 2 username on 1 of my computer, but I got error message on my 2nd computer when I try to validate user on it. 

Here is the error message. 
FAIL: Unable to read the credentials from the registry. 

Thanks, 

Regards, 
KOH 

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Jayesh Krishna < jayesh at mcs.anl.gov > wrote: 

Hi, 

>> Credentials for USER-PC\WIN 7 rejected connecting to user-PC 
>> Aborting: Unable to connect to user-PC 

>From the error message it looks like you haven't registered a valid username/password with mpiexec. Please register a valid Windows username/password with mpiexec using the "-register" option (Type "mpiexec -register" at the command prompt and mpiexec will prompt you for the username/password). Once the registration is complete validate it using the "-validate" option (Type "mpiexec -validate" at the command prompt). If you have registered a valid Windows username/password the validate option should return SUCCESS. 
Let us know the results. 

Regards, 
Jayesh 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Koh Voon Li" < kohvoonli at gmail.com > 

To: jayesh at mcs.anl.gov 

Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:59:35 AM 
Subject: Fwd: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium 

Hi Jayesh, 

Sorry for bothering. Attached here is the smpd log in debug mode. 
Million Thanks. 

Regards, 
KOH 

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
From: Koh Voon Li < kohvoonli at gmail.com > 
Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:30 PM 
Subject: MPICH 2 on Window 7 home premium 
To: jayesh at mcs.anl.gov 

Hi Jayesh, 

I am trying to running parallel FDS (Fire Dynamic Simulator) via 2 PC by using a config file 

here is my config file 

exe "C:\Program Files\FDS\FDS5\bin\fds5_mpi_win_64.exe" "ParadigmV4-13.fds" 
wdir "\\USER-PC\Project\Paradigm\" 
hosts 
user-PC 6 
WIN7-PC 6 

This is the error message I got from the command prompt. 

C:\>mpiexec -file config.txt 
Credentials for USER-PC\WIN 7 rejected connecting to user-PC 
Aborting: Unable to connect to user-PC 

I used a cross over cable to connect both PCs and I think my setting for the IP address is correct as I can ping each other computer in the command prompt. 
I tried to turned off both firewall but it failed. 
Thanks, 

Regards, 
Koh 