[mpich-discuss] MPICH and NWHCHEM

[Christopher O'Brien]

Nicolás,
I actually tried to do that a few weeks ago. I was able to build MPICH2 in my home directory. The problem was with trying to run mpich_hydra. The research of the error messages I received at the time indicated to me that solution would be require root access to reconfigure lsf to recognize the mpich_hydra executable. Simply including mpich_hydra in my path did not work. 

Is there a way around this? 

Thanks, 
Chris

On May 23, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Nicolas Rosner wrote:

> Christopher,
> 
>> MPICH2 does not exist on the cluster I have access to [...]
>> I have no hope of seeing my cluster updated
> 
> Have you considered installing your own copy of the latest release? At
> least *nix-like systems, you can build and install MPICH2 fully within
> user space. As long as you specify a writable --prefix (e.g. within
> your home dir, as opposed to a central one like /usr), you shouldn't
> ever need root or any special privileges.
> 
> Hth!
> Nicolás