[mpich-discuss] Error in the mpdboot step

[Pavan Balaji]

Prashantha,

On 02/01/2010 06:52 AM, Prashantha Hebbar wrote:
> I was trying to install MPICH2 in Unbutu systems. It seems, installation
> went well. But when I perform  mpdboot -n 1 -f mpd.hosts, I find
> (mpdtrace -l) only local mpd is running not the other machine mpd. I
> have transferred mpich2_install directory to my other system and
> configured the path. I have also done ssh_keygen to avoid password
> during ssh and configured /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf with hostname to do
> ssh with hostname. But still I am not able to cluster mpich2 of both the
> machines. I have attached a file containing the error information which
> I got during the process. Please find the attachment. So, can please
> tell me what has gone wrong? How to make it up and run?

You need to use:

% mpdboot -n <total_nodes> -f mpd.hosts --ncpus=<cores_on_local_node>

 -- Pavan

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