[mpich-discuss] how to make the hosts files

Pavan Balaji balaji at mcs.anl.gov
Thu May 12 03:33:37 CDT 2011


Is there an actual machine with the name "host1" or "host2" in your setup?

If you are just running it on the local node, you should not give the 
-machinefile or -f option.

  -- Pavan

On 05/12/2011 03:28 AM, hyunduk kim wrote:
>
> Thanks for your response
> However, my setup is not working.
>
> In my check progress.
> 1) I installed mpich2 on intel muti-core 2 cpu machine
> 2) check : /etc/hosts file
>      127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
>      ::1                        localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>
> 3) made the machinefile for mpiexec : /usr/local/mpich2/machine/machinefile
>
>   host1:6
>   host2:6
>
> 4) run : [root at francium machine]# mpiexec -n 10 -machinefile
> ./machinefile /usr/local/mpich2-1.3.2p1/examples/cpi
>     ==> I received messages as below
>           ssh: connect to host host1 port 22: Connection timed out
>           ssh: connect to host host2 port 22: Connection timed out
>
>    Question is :
> 1) why do I setup passwordless login among the two hosts?
> 2) Mpich2 was installed on the just multi-core 2 cpu machine. Why dose
> the mpiexec try to connect host1 and host2 using port 22 ?
> 3) Is there other method for defining the machinefile on the multi-core
> 2 cpu machine ?
>
>   I will attach my log files.
>
>
>
>
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Pavan Balaji
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