[mpich-discuss] hydra and PBS

Pavan Balaji balaji at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Jul 15 12:22:50 CDT 2009


Hi Bryan,

PBS is not supported yet for Hydra (see 
https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/ticket/443). However, you 
should be able to use the ssh bootstrap (which is the default), though 
it might be slightly slower than using PBS natively.

  -- Pavan

On 07/15/2009 08:10 AM, Bryan Putnam wrote:
> I've built mpich2-1.1 with configure option:
> 
>  --with-pm=mpd:hydra 
> 
> As before, mpdboot/mpiexec works normally and now mpiexec.hydra also works 
> with ssh, but not with pbs daemons. Is mpiexec.hydra/PBS not supported 
> yet, or am I doing something wrong? I did run "mpiexec.hydra" within a 
> PBS session.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> 520% mpiexec.hydra -bootstrap ssh -f $PBS_NODEFILE -np 4 
> ./hellof
>  node           2: Hello world!
>  node           3: Hello world!
>  node           0: Hello world!
>  node           1: Hello world!
> 521% mpiexec.hydra -bootstrap pbs -f $PBS_NODEFILE -np 4 
> ./hellof
> HYD_BSCI_init (38): unrecognized bootstrap server: pbs
> HYD_RMKI_init (44): unable to initialize the bootstrap server
> main (117): unable to initialize RMK

-- 
Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji


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