Does Petsc built with MPICH2 work in a single processor box?

[Thuc Bui]

Hi Barry and Matt,

Yes, I do not have proper MPI authentication to run on this single processor
machine, which has MPICH2 installed. However, I do not expect the users on
this type of machine needs to install MPICH2 to run my Petsc app. So, I went
to another single processor PC, which has no MPICH2 installed, ran my Petsc
app. It complains that mpich2mpi.dll and mpich2.dll are missing. So, I just
copied these DLL's to a directory on the PATH then my Petsc app would run
fine.

Thank you both again for your help,
Thuc

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov]
On Behalf Of Barry Smith
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 5:52 PM
To: petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: Does Petsc built with MPICH2 work in a single processor box?


    Looks like you may not have the proper MPICH demons running on  
this "uniprocessor"
machine?

    Barry

On Oct 11, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Thuc Bui wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I am able to build Petsc-2.3.3-p15 with MPICH2 under Windows and  
> make it a
> DLL. It works great with my app in a dual core laptop. However, when  
> the
> same executable runs on a uniprocessor windows box, it gives me the
> following errors:
>
> ...
> [0] Error creating mpiexec process...2
> [0] launchMpiexecProcess failed
> Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:
> MPIR_Init_thread(294): Initialization failed
> MPID_Init(82)........: channel initialization failed
> MPID_Init(383).......: PMI_Get_id returned 1
> ...
>
> Are these errors due to PatscInitialize() failing to initialize MPI  
> on a
> single processor box?
>
> If this is the case, is there a way in PetscInitialize or else where  
> to turn
> off MPI without having to recompile Petsc with the option --with- 
> mpi=0?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help,
> Thuc Bui
>