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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sharon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That particular error message is because of a missing home directory. If the node(s) you run on DO have the home directory, there will be no error.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If that node does not have /home/pfeiffes/ but DOES have an existing home directory (as I would expect), it would still run.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What you may need to verify is that the $HOME directory for the accounts are the same for each node and exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Brian Andrus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">ITACS/Research Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Naval Postgraduate School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Monterey, California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">voice: 831-656-6238<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pfeiffer, Sharon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 05, 2011 6:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mpich-discuss] Error message with MPICH2-1.0.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">UNRESTRICTED | ILLIMITÉ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> You are right, I logged on to the two nodes that it was having problems with and did not find my home directory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m trying to understand MPI and have one more question, if I statically assign the job to run on that node “ccs511”, I do not get the
error message.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Could you tell me why this is the case?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#948A54">Sharon (46654)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov">mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov</a>
<a href="mailto:[mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov]">[mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov]</a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrus, Brian Contractor<br>
<b>Sent:</b> December 2, 2011 4:36 PM AECL<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov">mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mpich-discuss] Error message with MPICH2-1.0.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sharon,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I suspect your home directory does not exist on one of the nodes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Log onto the nodes and verify that.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Brian Andrus</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">ITACS/Research Computing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Naval Postgraduate School</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Monterey, California</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">voice: 831-656-6238</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov">mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov</a>
<a href="mailto:[mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov]">[mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces@mcs.anl.gov]</a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pfeiffer, Sharon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 02, 2011 12:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov">mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mpich-discuss] Error message with MPICH2-1.0.8</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">UNRESTRICTED | ILLIMITÉ</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We are getting the following error message whenever a job is submitted to our compute cluster.
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I have provided information below, however, if you require any further information, please email me.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thank you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">Sharon Pfeiffer</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">
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<p><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A6A6A6">________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">Computational Reactor Physics Branch -</span><span lang="EN-CA">
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">AECL Nuclear Laboratories, Ontario, K0J 1J0 - (613) 584-8811 ext. 46654
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<p><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A6A6A6">________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Version: MPICH2-1.0.8</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">OS: Red Hat Linux (64-bit)
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">System : Linux cluster</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Error message:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">touch: cannot touch `/home/pfeiffes/.mpd.conf': No such file or directory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Cannot create MPD configuration file. Exiting ...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Job /cluster/lsf8.0/8.0/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/bin/mpich2_wrapper /ASD-RH-64/AECL/CODES/MCNP5/bin/Linux/mcnp5V1.40.1mpich2-1.0.8.Intel.64bits.Nov042009.mpi name=fname xsdir=e70c.xsd
eol</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">TID HOST_NAME COMMAND_LINE STATUS TERMINATION_TIME</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">===== ========== ================ ======================= ===================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00001 ccs512 Undefined
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00002 ccs512 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00003 ccs512 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00004 ccs512 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00005 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00006 ccs511 Undefined
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00007 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00008 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00009 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00010 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00011 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00012 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00013 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00014 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00015 ccs511 Undefined
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<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">00016 ccs511 Undefined
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