Re: [OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-18 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Ashley, > If you do this I would appreciate the chance to proof-read it before you go > public... Absolutely! I am a firm believer in two-heads-are-better-than- one concept. Regards, Tena On 2/18/11 1:29 AM, "Ashley Pittman" wrote: > > On 18 Feb 2011, at 09:09,

Re: [OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-18 Thread Tena Sakai
line. > > So, from the computer/instance-A side orted gives the first kick, > but somehow the ball never comes back from computer/instance-B. > It's ping- without -pong. > The same frustrating feeling I had when I was a kid and kicked the > soccer ball on the neighbor's s

Re: [OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-18 Thread Tena Sakai
mini "how-to openMPI on cloud". Regards, Tena On 2/17/11 6:52 AM, "Jeff Squyres" wrote: > On Feb 16, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > >> For now, may I point out something I noticed out of the >> DEBUG3 Output last night? >> >>

Re: [OMPI users] How are IP addresses determined?

2011-02-18 Thread Tena Sakai
e ssh authenticity test, I added UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no to /etc/ssh/ssh_config Hope one of these helps. bw On 2/17/11 6:11 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: Re: [OMPI users] How are IP addresses determined? Hi Barnet, > If I understand you correctly, t

Re: [OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-18 Thread Tena Sakai
; tool for assistance. -- 10.96.197.154 - daemon did not report back when launched [tsakai@ip-10-110-10-137 .ssh]$ [tsakai@ip-10-110-10-137 .ssh]$ # I can't figure out what more to do [tsakai@ip-10-110-

Re: [OMPI users] How are IP addresses determined?

2011-02-17 Thread Tena Sakai
rnal uri might be a problem. If you try this (or anything else), I'd appreciate it if you'd post your results. bw On 2/17/11 4:08 AM, Tena Sakai wrote: Re: [OMPI users] How are IP addresses determined? Hi Barnet, Allow me to interject. Are you saying that you run m

Re: [OMPI users] How are IP addresses determined?

2011-02-17 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Barnet, Allow me to interject. Are you saying that you run master on your local machine and launching openMPI process on EC2? You are saying that 1) tcp port tcp://192.168.1.101:35272 is on your local system and 2) the ec2 instance is trying to connect your local machine’s port 35272 , and

Re: [OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-17 Thread Tena Sakai
e I parse that line. > > So, from the computer/instance-A side orted gives the first kick, > but somehow the ball never comes back from computer/instance-B. > It's ping- without -pong. > The same frustrating feeling I had when I was a kid and kicked the > soccer ball on the neig

Re: [OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-17 Thread Tena Sakai
sh > takes a look at the debug3 session log that you included. > > I can't see if/where/why ssh is failing for you in EC2. > > See other answers inline, please. > > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Hi Gus, >> >> Thank you again for your reply. >> >>> A sl

Re: [OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-16 Thread Tena Sakai
n ssh > takes a look at the debug3 session log that you included. > > I can't see if/where/why ssh is failing for you in EC2. > > See other answers inline, please. > > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Hi Gus, >> >> Thank you again for your reply. >> >>&g

Re: [OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-16 Thread Tena Sakai
entions a few environmental varialbles. SSH_ASKPASS, SSH_AUTH_SOCK, SSH_CONNECTION, etc. Do any of these matter as far as openMPI is concerned? Thank you, Gus. Regards, Tena On 2/15/11 5:09 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to rep

[OMPI users] This must be ssh problem, but I can't figure out what it is...

2011-02-15 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi, I am trying to reproduce what I was able to show last Friday on Amazon EC2 instances, but I am having a problem. What I was able to show last Friday as root was with this command: mpirun –app app.ac with app.ac being: -H dns-entry-A –np 1 (linux command) -H dns-entry-A –np 1 (linux comm

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-15 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Gus, Please read my comments inline. On 2/14/11 7:05 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Hi Tena > > Answers inline. > > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Hi Gus, >> >>> Hence, I don't understand why the lack of symmetry in the >>> firewall protectio

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
ves several tips for that. > That is probably a more promising path, > which you may want to try. I have a feeling that I will be in need of more help from her. Regards, Tena On 2/14/11 3:46 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Hi Kevin, >> >

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Gus, Thank you very much for your help and reply. I agree with each and every point you make. I look forward to the day I can write 'little How To.' Regards, Tena On 2/14/11 1:47 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Hi Tena > > Answers inline. > This is getting

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Jeff. That's good to know, but for now I am going to stick to -app option. For this old dog can't learn new tricks so fast. Regards, Tena On 2/14/11 6:18 AM, "Jeff Squyres" wrote: > On Feb 13, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > >> I have

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
/config file. I will update the ami, relaunch and will report back. Regards, Tena On 2/14/11 6:16 AM, "Jeff Squyres" wrote: > On Feb 13, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > >> Also, here is an idea I came up in my sleep that I want to check >> out. The ami I h

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Many thanks to you. Also, thanks to Reuti who raised this possibility in the first place. Regards, Tena On 2/14/11 1:37 PM, "Ashley Pittman" wrote: > > On 14 Feb 2011, at 21:10, Tena Sakai wrote: >> Regarding firewall, they are different: > >> >> I don

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your reply. Dasher is physically located under my desk and vixen is in a cecure data center. > does dasher have any network interfaces that vixen does not? No, I don't think so. Here is more definitive info: [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
annot run mpirun with the app file: -H dasher.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname -H dasher.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname -H vixen.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname -H vixen.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname Many thanks. Tena On 2/14/11 11:15 AM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Hi Reut

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
i" wrote: > Hi, > > Am 14.02.2011 um 04:54 schrieb Tena Sakai: > >> I have digressed and started downward descent... >> >> I was trying to make a simple and clear case. Everything >> I write in this very mail is about local machines. There >> is no virtua

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
our own or no password. su is a command to allow you to run commands > as another user using their password. What sudo su is doing is running a > command as root which is then running a shell as root, "sudo -s" is a much > better way of achieving the same effect. > > Ashle

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-13 Thread Tena Sakai
ho know OpenMPI inside out, may have better advice in this > regard. > > 2) Another thing would be to try to run R on E2C in serial mode, without > mpiexec, > interactively or via script, to see who EC2 doesn't like: R or OpenMPI (but > maybe it's both). > > Gus C

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-13 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Ashley, for your comments. I do have a question. I was using 'sudo su' to document the problem I am running into for people who read this mailing list, as well as for my own record. Why would you say I shouldn't be doing so? Regards, Tena On 2/13/11 1:29 PM, "Ashley Pittman" wrote

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-13 Thread Tena Sakai
> If it is very early in the process, before the program starts, my suggestion > won't work. > Jeff and Ralph, who know OpenMPI inside out, may have better advice in this > regard. > > 2) Another thing would be to try to run R on E2C in serial mode, without > mpiexec, >

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-12 Thread Tena Sakai
is, or > at least a contact point for someone who is already running in that > environment. > > IIRC, there are some unique problems with running on that platform. > > > On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Tena Sakai wrote: > >> Hi Gus, >> >> Thank you for all your sugge

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-12 Thread Tena Sakai
age with the MPI failure/errors. > Not sure if I understand which computers we're talking about, > or where these computers are (at Amazon?), > or if they change depending on each session you use to run your programs, > if they are identical machines with the same limits or if they d

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-11 Thread Tena Sakai
674 [tsakai@ip-10-114-239-188 ~]$ I see a bit of difference between root and tsakai, but I cannot believe such small difference results in somewhat a catastrophic failure as I have reported. Would you agree with me? Regards, Tena On 2/11/11 6:06 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Hi

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-11 Thread Tena Sakai
oot can but you can't, >> is is a directory permission problem perhaps? >> Check the execution directory permission (on both machines, >> if this is not NFS mounted dir). >> I am not sure, but IIRR OpenMPI also uses /tmp for >> under-the-hood stuff, worth checking perm

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-11 Thread Tena Sakai
ught maybe this is a problem With PATH variable. But I don't think so. I compared root's Path to that of tsaki's and made them identical and retried. I got the same behavior. If you could enlighten me why this is happening, I would really Appreciate it. Thank you. Tena On 2/10/11

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-10 Thread Tena Sakai
is blocked from doing so by a > firewall, Open MPI won't run. In general, you can either disable your > firewall or you can setup a trust relationship for TCP connections within your > cluster. > > > > On Feb 10, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > >> Hi Reu

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-10 Thread Tena Sakai
mmand: orted bla bla bla doesn't look good to me. But, in truth, I have no idea what they mean. If you could shed some light, I would appreciate it very much. Regards, Tena On 2/10/11 10:57 AM, "Reuti" wrote: > Hi, > > Am 10.02.2011 um 19:11 schrieb Tena Sakai: &

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-10 Thread Tena Sakai
7;re doing things correctly. I'm almost sure you've done all of the following, but just to be sure: having the ssh public keys in other computer's authorized_key file. ssh keys generated without passphrases On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: Hi, I have made a bit

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-10 Thread Tena Sakai
not an option. Regards, Tena On 2/10/11 2:27 AM, "Reuti" wrote: > Hi, > > your local machine is Linux like, but the execution hosts are Macs? I saw the > /Users/tsakai/... in your output. > > a) executing a command on them is also working, e.g.: ssh > domU-

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-10 Thread Tena Sakai
you. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 2/9/11 7:52 PM, "Tena Sakai" wrote: Hi I have an app.ac1 file like below: [tsakai@vixen local]$ cat app.ac1 -H vixen.egcrc.org -np 1 Rscript /Users/tsakai/Notes/R/parallel/Rmpi/local/fib.R 5 -H vixen.egcrc.org -np 1 Rscript /

[OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-09 Thread Tena Sakai
mpirun: clean termination accomplished [tsakai@domU-12-31-39-00-D1-F2 ~]$ Mpirun (or somebody else?) asks me password, which I don’t have. I end up typing control-C. Here’s my question: How can I get past authentication by mpirun where there is no

Re: [OMPI users] Newbie question continues, a step toward real app

2011-01-13 Thread Tena Sakai
solve my science. (And I haven't forgotten to look into Torque.) Regards, Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 1/13/11 4:18 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Fantastic, Gus! Now I think I got framework pretty much done. >> The rest is to work on

Re: [OMPI users] Newbie question continues, a step toward real app

2011-01-13 Thread Tena Sakai
Fantastic, Gus! Now I think I got framework pretty much done. The rest is to work on 'problem solving' end with R. Many thanks for your insight and kindness. I really appreciate it. Regards, Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 1/13/11 2:40 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: >

Re: [OMPI users] Error from mpirun command

2011-01-13 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Hicham. I will check out bash man page. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 1/13/11 12:38 PM, "Hicham Mouline" wrote: > I have some old memory of this where the .bashrc file and the .profile are > distinguishing login and non-login. > Also something to do

[OMPI users] Newbie question continues, a step toward real app

2011-01-13 Thread Tena Sakai
ow I can do what I describe? Thank you. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu

Re: [OMPI users] Error from mpirun command

2011-01-13 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Jeff. I just commented the stty line out and it doesn't seem to have any ill effect with interactive shells. I guess my stty erase ^\? was superfluous to begin with. I have hard time remembering which rc file invokes/chains what other rc file. Regards, Tena Saka

Re: [OMPI users] More newbie question: --hostfile option

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Gus. I am encouraged. I will look into Torque in a day or two or three. Regards, Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 1/12/11 6:49 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I can execute the command below: >>$ mpirun -H vix

Re: [OMPI users] More newbie question: --hostfile option

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, David. That did it! Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 1/12/11 6:40 PM, "David Zhang" wrote: I think you just make a hostfile with vixen compute-0-0 ... and load the file in the first -H before the colon. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: Hi, I c

Re: [OMPI users] More newbie question: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
hat I can use to do mpi resource control, but I don't know enough about mpi and don't want to bite more than I can chew. What I want to do at the moment is to get to know openMpi to the best I can. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 1/12/11 6:30 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Tena

[OMPI users] More newbie question: --hostfile option

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
correct in concluding that –H and —hostfile cannot be issued in the same mpirun command which contains a colon (:)? Or is there any trick or work-around to have both –H and —hostfile? Thank you. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu

Re: [OMPI users] More newbie question: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Gus. I agree with what you say about location of OpenMPI software. Indeed, /usr/local is nfs-mounted to all cluster nodes, albeit a bit unfortunate name "local." If/when I have a chance to Set up machines, I will make local really local to each node. Regards, Tena

Re: [OMPI users] Error from mpirun command

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Gus. I grep'ed "stty" in all . in my home directory and found that I had a line stty erase ^\? in .bashrc. When I commented out the line, the error message "stty: standard input: Invalid argument" went away. I appreciate your tip. Tena Sakai tsa...@gall

[OMPI users] More newbie question: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
directory /usr/local/lib/openmpi was generated (with many files in it). Given that, do I set D_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib or do I set it to /usr/local/lib/openmpi? Thank you. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu

[OMPI users] Error from mpirun command

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
nk you. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu

Re: [OMPI users] Newbie question

2011-01-12 Thread Tena Sakai
ots=4 Is the first field (dummyX) machine/node name? What is the definition of slots? (Max number of processes to spawn?) Am I missing a different man page? Can you please shed some light? Thank you. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 1/10/11 11:38 PM, "Siegmar Gross" wrote: &

Re: [OMPI users] Newbie question

2011-01-11 Thread Tena Sakai
me? Thank you in advance. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 1/10/11 8:14 PM, "pooja varshneya" wrote: You can use mpirun. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: Hi, I am an mpi newbie. My open MPI is v 1.4.3, which I compiled on a linux machine. I am using a langu

[OMPI users] Newbie question

2011-01-10 Thread Tena Sakai
but I had notion that open MPI is to have functionalities of all. Is this a wrong impression? Thank you for your help. Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu