[mpich-discuss] MPICH2 on HPC Server 2008 wdir problem

[Markus Fischer]

have you tried

  job submit /workdir:\\p\a\t\h

Markus


Addepalli, Srirangam V wrote:
> Hello Jayesh,
> 
> I tried both the options suggested.
> 
> mpiexec -np 8 -path Z:\BIN\ nwchem.exe siosi3.nw  (Here Z:\BIN is a network mapped drive)
> with MS HPC job scheduler variables  WorkingDirectory \\Fileshare\BIN\
> Using this option i was able to get the executable to start but it exits as it is not able find the input file.. siosi3.nw 
> 
> argument  1 = siosi3.nw
>   could not open a file in permanent directory: 
>   could not open a file in scratch directory: 
>   Both permanent and scratch directory not accessible
>  ******** Fatal Error ********      911
> This option worked till it found the nwchem.exe binary. But executable (nwchem) failed to read the input file from the directory it was supposed to be reading from. I believe these errors are caused by the way the file sharing is setup.
> 
> I switched over to the second option and specified the full path 
> 
> mpiexec -np 8  \\Fileserv\BIN\nwchem.exe siosi3.nw 
> 
> Working Directory \\Fileserv\BIN\
> 
> This kills the compute node ..with no information in the event viewer about what triggered the reboot.same set of jobs work perfectly fine using mpiexec wrapper interface ...
> 
> So for i was only able to get it to work using mpiexecwrapper.
> 
> mpiexec -np 8 nwchem.exe siosi3.nw  (this works when both nwchem.exe and siosi3.nw are located in C:\
> MPICH2\bin)
> 
> Rangam
> ________________________________________
> From: Jayesh Krishna [jayesh at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 8:34 PM
> To: Addepalli, Srirangam V
> Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [mpich-discuss] MPICH2 on HPC Server 2008  wdir problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> # Does specifying a complete path to the executable work (mpiexec -n 2 c:\temp\cpi.exe )?
> # Did you try the "-path" option of mpiexec when launching your job (mpiexec -n 2 -path c:\temp cpi.exe) ?
> 
> -jayesh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Addepalli, Srirangam V
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:18 PM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [mpich-discuss] MPICH2 on HPC Server 2008 wdir problem
> 
> Hello All.
> I am trying to used MPICH2 on windows HPC Cluster.  Using HPC job scheduler i am not able to specify the work directory when i try to submit a job. mpiexec will look at the input files only if preset in  MPICH2/BIN directory. I have tried using the -wdir setting but not able to get mpiexec to work.
> Sincerely
> Rangam
> 
> 
> 
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