how to specify hosts to mpiexec? -machinefile doesn't work

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Karl Zeilinger wrote:

> (BTW, is there any beginner tutorial which explains the different
> lam/mpich/mpich-2 systems, and why I need to lamboot or mpdboot on
> some of them, but not on others?)

I'm Not sure if there is a document comparing different startup
mechanisms of individual MPI impls.

However each distro might have a doc explaing its supported startup
mechanisms.

Satish