On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM, George Mathew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmnnus@gmail.com" target="_blank">gmnnus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Matthew Knepley <</span><a href="https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/petsc-users" style="white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">knepley at gmail.com</a><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">> wrote:</span></div>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">><i> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:17 PM, George Mathew <<a href="https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/petsc-users" target="_blank">gmnnus at gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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</i>>><i> I have petsc 3.3 and mpich2 version 1.4.1p1 installed.
</i>>><i> When I run the example ex2.c code in the petsc user manual, it runs one
</i>>><i> one machine format. But, if I chose to run on multiple nodes, it gives
</i>>><i> error.
</i>>><i> The example is the file ${PETSC}/src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex2.c.
</i>>><i> I compiled it and when run using the following command, it works.
</i>>><i> mpiexec -f machinefile -n 1 ./ex2
</i>>><i> But, if I run it using the command
</i>>><i> mpiexec -f machinefile -n 2 ./ex2
</i>>><i> I get the following error.
</i>>><i>
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</i>><i> It is very likely that you are running the code with the wrong mpiexec
</i>><i> (from another MPI installation).
</i>><i> I cannot tell which MPI you used with configure.log.
</i>><i>
</i>
>Can you also try
>1. Run multiple processes on your local machine
>2. Run with -skip_petscrc</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">I have only one MPI installation. It is under /usr/local/bin. The following command works:</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">mpiexec -n 4 ./ex2</pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">So, locally, multiple processes must be running fine.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">How do I run with -skip_petscrc?</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>mpiexec -n 4 -f machinefile ./ex2 -skip_petscrc</div>
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