Thanks, now the situation is that I want to run mpi program over
Infiniband, so MVAPICH2 or OpenMPI ?. It seems that MPICH2 doesn't support
Infiniband.


2013/10/16 Rob Latham <[email protected]>

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 01:54:26PM +0800, xihuang sun wrote:
> > There is only intel mpi installed on the machines. I don't know whether
> > this can be solved with impi. Any more help?
>
> yeah, i'm almost positive impi does not have PVFS support.
>
> You can build your own romio against impi.  that *should* work, but
> it's been a while since I've tried.
>
> You can build your own MPICH or OpenMPI and install it in your home
> directory, even if the system only has intel mpi .
>
> ==rob
>
> >
> > 2013/7/3 Rob Latham <[email protected]>
> >
> > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:36:57PM +0800, xihuang sun wrote:
> > > > I installed orangefs2.8.7 on ten nodes and each of them acted as io
> node
> > > > and meta node. then pvfs2-client is running on mdc node and
> node{1-10}.
> > > > mount point is /mnt/orangefs.
> > > > now when i am running mpi programs, they crashed and said
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > File locking failed in ADIOI_Set_lock. If the file
> > > > system is NFS, you need to use NFS version 3, ensure
> > > > that the lockd daemon is running on all the machines,
> > > > and mount the directory with the 'noac' option (no
> > > > attribute caching).
> > > >
> > > > But the question is that I installed orangefs2.8.7 on local file
> system
> > > and
> > > > I am sure about it , where the NFS thing come from?
> > >
> > > That's a ROMIO message.  ROMIO, an implementation of MPI-IO used
> > > nearly everyhwere, can select file system specific functions, or fall
> > > back to a general all-purpose file system.
> > >
> > > The logic for selecting which collection of "file system routines" to
> > > use can be set two ways:
> > >
> > > - automatically: romio will stat the file or it's parent directory and
> > >   use that information to choose from available file systems.
> > >
> > > - manually: one can prefix the file (the whole file path) with
> > >   'pvfs2:' and ROMIO will use the PVFS2 routines.
> > >
> > > Nice thing about this approach is ROMIO uses the "system interface"
> > > and will bypass the kernel.
> > >
> > > It may be the case that your MPI implementation was not built with
> > > PVFS support, in which case ROMIO will try to use general-purpose unix
> > > routines on PVFS.  As Kevin says, one of those is fcntl() to lock file
> > > regions, which is not supported through the OrangeFS VFS interface.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rob Latham
> > > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > > Argonne National Lab, IL USA
> > >
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> Rob Latham
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> Argonne National Lab, IL USA
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