[MPICH] Re: mpich2 error

[Anthony Chan]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Hashem Al-Yamani wrote:

> Dear All ;
>
> What does it mean when u have the following error while using mpich2 :

That means you are not using MPICH2. It is likely your machines have
LAM/MPI pre-installed.  You can type the full path to any mpich2
tools to avoid invoking non-MPICH2 utilities or put
<mpich2-install-dir>/bin in your PATH before any LAM/MPI tools.

A.Chan

>
>
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> *** Oops -- I cannot open the LAM help file.
> *** I tried looking for it in the following places:
> ***
> ***   $HOME/lam-helpfile
> ***   $HOME/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***   $HOME/etc/lam-helpfile
> ***   $HOME/etc/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***   $LAMHELPDIR/lam-helpfile
> ***   $LAMHELPDIR/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***   $LAMHOME/etc/lam-helpfile
> ***   $LAMHOME/etc/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***   $SYSCONFDIR/lam-helpfile
> ***   $SYSCONFDIR/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***
> *** You were supposed to get help on the program "MPI"
> *** about the topic "no-lamd"
> ***
> *** Sorry!
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> *** Oops -- I cannot open the LAM help file.
> *** I tried looking for it in the following places:
> ***
> ***   $HOME/lam-helpfile
> ***   $HOME/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***   $HOME/etc/lam-helpfile
> ***   $HOME/etc/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***   $LAMHELPDIR/lam-helpfile
> ***   $LAMHELPDIR/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***   $LAMHOME/etc/lam-helpfile
> ***   $LAMHOME/etc/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***   $SYSCONFDIR/lam-helpfile
> ***   $SYSCONFDIR/lam-7.0.6-helpfile
> ***
> *** You were supposed to get help on the program "MPI"
> *** about the topic "no-lamd"
> ***
> *** Sorry!
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>
> It seems that there is no lamd running on the host Main-server.
>
> This indicates that the LAM/MPI runtime environment is not operating.
> The LAM/MPI runtime environment is necessary for MPI programs to run
> (the MPI program tired to invoke the "MPI_Init" function).
>
> Please run the "lamboot" command the start the LAM/MPI runtime
> environment.  See the LAM/MPI documentation for how to invoke
> "lamboot" across multiple machines.
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