Hello I'm a newbie to this mailing list and to mpich2 I've installed mpich on 2 pc's ( MachineMPI2 and 3 ) on Fedora , but running "mpdboot -n 2 -f mpd.hosts" gives me : mpdboot_MachineMPI2 (handle_mpd_output 359): failed to ping mpd on MachineMPI3; recvd output={} Thanks for your help hicham