[mpich-discuss] MPICH2 on Windows Server

[Marcelo Tomim]

Marcelo Tomim wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
First of all, sorry for not changing the subject of my previous email.
> I have some experience in installing MPICH2 on a linux cluster. 
> However,  I am having a hard time to understand how to properly 
> configure MPICH2  on a SMP machine (8 processors) running on Windows 
> Server 2003.
> So far I was able install the MPICH2 Windows binaries and compile the 
> pi-calculation program. Everything seems fine until I execute the 
> program with the mpiexec. At the excution time mpiexec hangs for a few 
> seconds and then returns an error saying that the node refused the 
> connection.
> I am also missing the cluster configuration file, which contains the 
> information about the host name and the number of processors 
> associated with it (in our case "G-server:8"). Is it still necessary 
> for the Windows installation?
>
> I would extremely appreciate any help on these issues.
>
> Thanks in advance for your attention.
>
> Regards,
> Marcelo Tomim.
>