[mpich-discuss] mpich2-1.3rc2.tar.tar under cygwin+WINDOWS Server 2003 R2 installation problem

Tue Oct 12 11:11:30 CDT 2010

Hi, Thanks for your answer!!

I certainly do not know what am I doing, I just try to read manuals and find
tutorials, quite unsuccessfully, though.

All the installation processes I did were run under an Administrator
account.

I followed your instrctions and I got :

E:\Victor\soft\MPICH2>mpiexec -n 2 hostname
Aborting: unable to connect to TRISO, smpd version mismatch

could it be because I am running on a Windows Server 2003 R2, and not on a
2008??

Suggestions are welcome!!!

Thanks

Victor

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:52 AM, <jayesh at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >> ...mpich2-1.2.1p1-win-x86-64.msi... mpiexec answered something like smpd
> was not the right version.
>
>  Did you install MPICH2 from an administrator command prompt ? Windows
> flavors Vista/7/Srv2008 need extra information in the installers for
> installing the package as an administrator (The flavor of Visual Studio that
> we use to compile MPICH2 does not support adding these additional info - We
> have an open ticket on this issue,
> https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/ticket/1070, and we plan to fix
> it soon).
>  We do not recommend users to use "smpd -install" to install SMPD on
> windows (Unless you know what you are doing). The windows installer should
> automatically install the process manager for you.
>  Please follow the steps below and let us know if it works for you,
>
> # Uninstall any versions of MPICH2 installer in your machine (Control panel
> --> Add/Remove programs --> Uninstall)
> # Right-click on the command prompt icon and select "Run as administrator"
> (Note that opening a command prompt as an administrator does not give you an
> administrator command prompt). This opens an administrator command prompt
> # Use the msiexec utility to install MPICH2 (Type "msiexec /i
> mpich2-1.2.1p1-win-x86-64.msi" at the administrator command prompt) from the
> administrator command prompt
> # The command above pops up the installer GUI to install MPICH2.
> # After installing MPICH2, type "mpiexec -n 2 hostname" at the command
> prompt to check if MPICH2 is working (The MPICH2 job launcher might prompt
> you for user credentials to launch the executables. Provide them when
> prompted.).
> # Compile/Run a simple hello world program (
> https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/mpi/mpich2/trunk/examples/f77/hellow.f)
>
>  Installing MPICH2 on windows using an installer would be the easiest way
> to getting started with MPICH2 on windows (and you get better performance
> than MPICH2 on Cygwin).
>  Let us know the results.
>
> Regards,
> Jayesh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Victor Gillette" <victor.gillette at ncsu.edu>
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:30:30 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [mpich-discuss] mpich2-1.3rc2.tar.tar under cygwin+WINDOWS Server
> 2003 R2 installation problem
>
> Hi. I am interested in running MCNP parallel on a Windows Server 2003 R2 64
> bits System with Intel fortran Compiler and cygwin installed and working.
>
> First I tried installing
>
> mpich2-1.2.1p1-win-x86-64.msi
>
> but mpiexec answered something like smpd was not the right version.
>
> Then I ran smpd -install
>
> and when trying to run mpiexec nothing happened.
>
> I read that hydra would be a more robust manager instead of smpd, so I
> downloaded the source files of
>
> mpich2-1.3rc2.tar.tar
>
> because the pages with binaries were not available and I ran
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> I found some issues while make, like datatypes for Fortran were not defined
> in mpi.h of mpif.h . What I did to patch these problems is copying the
> values for these definitions from the mpif.h and mpi.h files of the
> previous
> version I had installed. I have no idea if this is completely crazy or a
> reasonable assumption, but make ended OK. There was another issue which was
> that a file setbotf.o was not found in binding/f77 but I found the
> file setbotf.obj , so I
> renamed the file to have .o extension and make and make install ended
> successfully.
>
> I was able to compile Hiworld.c but it doesn't run. I was not able to
> compile Hiworld.f (datatypes ended with ")" when something else was
> expected.
>
> I created all MPICH twice the first time with all defaults, which
> produced HYDRA, and a second time with MPD because I found no
> explanation about how to start HYDRA in the manual.
>
> With MPD I defined the file .mpd.conf in my home folder and the file
> mpd.conf in the /etc folder
>
> I started MPD with
>
> mpd --ncpus=8 &
>
> and if I type
>
> mpdtrace
>
> the code answers my system name.
>
> if I type
>
> mpiexec -n 4 ls
>
> the output of ls is shown 4 times on the screen.
>
> I can create a.exe with
>
> mpicc Hi.c
>
> successfully, however these are the outputs of different commands I tried:
>
> $ mpiexec Hic.exe
> missing num_proc flag: -n, -np, -hosts, or -localonly.
> Unable to parse the mpiexec command arguments.
>
> vhgillette at TRISO /cygdrive/e/Victor/MCNP/CHECK/VIC/test
> $ mpiexec -n 2 Hic.exe
>
> vhgillette at TRISO /cygdrive/e/Victor/MCNP/CHECK/VIC/test
> $ ./Hic.exe
>  argx  2280688   argv  ô
> Hello from processor 0 of 1
>
>
> so, please, could anyone ive me some advise about how to run mpi
> successfully on my system?
>
> Thanks
>
> Victor
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