[MPICH] MPICH2 startup w/ PBS

[Wei-keng Liao]

How about the following 3 lines in your script:

mpdboot -n ${NP} -f ${PBS_NODEFILE}
mpiexec -machinefile ${PBS_NODEFILE} -n ${NP} ./${EXE}
mpdallexit

Wei-keng


On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:

> Good morning,
>
>  I hate to bother everyone early in the morning, but I'm
> looking for some advice on MPICH2 startup. I've been starting
> an mpd on each node in the cluster via,
>
> mpdboot -n 25 -f /home/jlayton/mpd.hosts
>
> where the file mpd.hosts contains a list of all possible hosts.
> So I'm basically starting mpd on every node. Then I run the
> code using mpiexec
>
> mpiexec -machinefile ${PBS_NODEFILE} -n ${NP} ./${EXE}
>
> and run mpdallexit after the code is finished to stop all of the
> mpds. Notice that I'm using PBS for queuing/scheduling.
>  This is something of a pain, because we lose nodes for
> various projects or training so I'm constantly having to go into
> the list of hosts and edit it. I also have to change the count on
> the mpdboot command.
>  Is there a better way to start up MPICH2 codes using PBS?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>