Dear All ;<br><br>What does it mean when u have the following error while using mpich2 : <br><br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>*** Oops -- I cannot open the LAM help file.
<br>*** I tried looking for it in the following places:<br>***<br>*** $HOME/lam-helpfile<br>*** $HOME/lam-7.0.6-helpfile<br>*** $HOME/etc/lam-helpfile<br>*** $HOME/etc/lam-7.0.6-helpfile<br>*** $LAMHELPDIR/lam-helpfile
<br>*** $LAMHELPDIR/lam-7.0.6-helpfile<br>*** $LAMHOME/etc/lam-helpfile<br>*** $LAMHOME/etc/lam-7.0.6-helpfile<br>*** $SYSCONFDIR/lam-helpfile<br>*** $SYSCONFDIR/lam-7.0.6-helpfile<br>***<br>*** You were supposed to get help on the program "MPI"
<br>*** about the topic "no-lamd"<br>***<br>*** Sorry!<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<br>*** Oops -- I cannot open the LAM help file.<br>*** I tried looking for it in the following places:<br>***<br>*** $HOME/lam-helpfile<br>*** $HOME/lam-7.0.6-helpfile<br>*** $HOME/etc/lam-helpfile<br>*** $HOME/etc/lam-
7.0.6-helpfile<br>*** $LAMHELPDIR/lam-helpfile<br>*** $LAMHELPDIR/lam-7.0.6-helpfile<br>*** $LAMHOME/etc/lam-helpfile<br>*** $LAMHOME/etc/lam-7.0.6-helpfile<br>*** $SYSCONFDIR/lam-helpfile<br>*** $SYSCONFDIR/lam-
7.0.6-helpfile<br>***<br>*** You were supposed to get help on the program "MPI"<br>*** about the topic "no-lamd"<br>***<br>*** Sorry!<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>It seems that there is no lamd running on the host Main-server.<br><br>This indicates that the LAM/MPI runtime environment is not operating.
<br>The LAM/MPI runtime environment is necessary for MPI programs to run<br>(the MPI program tired to invoke the "MPI_Init" function).<br><br>Please run the "lamboot" command the start the LAM/MPI runtime
<br>environment. See the LAM/MPI documentation for how to invoke<br>"lamboot" across multiple machines.<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>