[mvapich-discuss] installation

[Jess Kondor]

Hi Abhinav,

 thanks for the help. I was able to install mvapich using
make.mvapich.vapiscript and by choosing PCI-X and SDR options (this
script asked about it).
But simple test failed with the error:

cannot find MPI_PROCESSES.

what does it mean?

jk


On 12/21/06, Abhinav Vishnu <vishnu at cse.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Jess,
>
> Thanks for trying MVAPICH and reporting the problem to us.
>
> * On Dec,1 Jess Kondor<jess.kondor at gmail.com> wrote :
> >
> >  Hello,
> >
> >   we have cluster with Infiniband provided by Topspin, and thus we have
> mvapich
> > (I suppose)  installed in /usr/local/topspin/mpi/mpich/ . I see that
> this
> > version is out-of-date, and I wanted to install new one ( 0.9.8).
> However,
> > configure didn't find any infiniband drivers. Is it possible to install
> mvapich
> > under user privileges?
>
> MVAPICH has a couple of make scripts for different devices (VAPI, Gen2
> and uDAPL). Their names are make.mvapich.{vapi, gen2, udapl}
> respectively. It is possible to install MVAPICH under user privileges.
> A user can compile MVAPICH in his directory and use the binaries for
> running any MPI application. More details are present at the following
> links:
>
> (MVAPICH compliation with Gen2)
>
> http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/projects/mpi-iba/mvapich_user_guide.html#x1-100004.4.1
>
> (MVAPICH compilation with VAPI)
>
> http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/projects/mpi-iba/mvapich_user_guide.html#x1-110004.4.2
>
> However, i am not sure whether the drivers for your cluster are based on
> VAPI/Gen2. IMO, if you take a look at /usr/local/topspin, you may be
> able to find it out, or contact your vendor for this information. Once
> we have this information, we should be able to help out with respect to
> compiling and installing MVAPICH on your cluster in a better fashion.
>
> Please let us know the outcome of your findings.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> :- Abhinav
>
>
>
> >  thanks,
> >   JK
>
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