Thankyou for your help.
I tried the command
mpirun -np 4 -host node1,node2 -mca btl tcp,self random
but still got the same result.
I'm pretty sure that the communication between the nodes is TCP but I'm not
sure, I've emailedIT support to ask them, but am yet to hear back from them.
Other than that I'm running the latest release of OMPI (1.3) and I installed it
on both nodes. And yes they are in the same absolute paths.
My configuration was very standard:
shell$ gunzip -c openmpi-1.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
shell$ cd openmpi-1.3
shell$ ./configure CC=icc CXX=icpc F77=ifort FC=ifort
--prefix=/home/bburgess/bin/bin
shell$ make all install
Again thankyou for your help, I'll have to investigate whether my assumption
about my connections being TCP are correct. When I was setting it up at first,
and before I'd configured the nodes to log into each other without a password,
I did get the message
user@ node.newcastle.edu.au's password:
In my log files, so it did at least seem to be reaching the other node. Does
that mean that my connections are working, or could it be more to it than that?
Robertson Burgess
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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:37:44 +0200
From: Lenny Verkhovsky <lenny.verkhov...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI hangs across multiple nodes.
To: Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org>
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what kind of communication between nodes do you have - tcp, openib (
IB/IWARP ) ?
you can try
mpirun -np 4 -host node1,node2 -mca btl tcp,self random
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Could you tell us which version of OpenMPI you are using, and how it was
> configured?
>
> Did you install the OMPI libraries and binaries on both nodes? Are they in
> the same absolute path locations?
>
> Thanks
> Ralph
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Robertson Burgess wrote:
>
>> Dear users,
>> I am quite new to OpenMPI, I have compiled it on two nodes, each node with
>> 8 CPU cores. The two nodes are identical. The code I am using works in
>> parallel across the 8 cores on a single node. However, whenever I try to run
>> across both nodes, OpenMPI simply hangs. There is no output whatsoever, when
>> I run it in background, outputting to a log file, the log file is always
>> empty. The cores do not appear to be doing anything at all, either on the
>> host node or on the remote node. This happens whether I am running my code,
>> or even if I when I tell it to run a process that doesn't even exist, for
>> instance
>>
>> mpirun -np 4 -host node1,node2 random
>>
>> Simply results in the terminal hanging, so all I can do is close the
>> terminal and open up a new one.
>>
>> mpirun -np 4 -host node1,node2 random >& log.log &
>>
>> simply produces and empty log.log file
>>
>> I am running Redhat Linux on the systems, and compiled OpenMPI with the
>> Intel Compilers 10.1. As I've said, it works fine on one node. I have set up
>> both nodes such that they can log into each other via ssh without the need
>> for a password, and I have altered my .bashrc file so the PATH and
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH include the appropriate folders.
>> I have looked through the FAQ and mailing lists, but I was unable to find
>> anything that really matched my problem. Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Robertson Burgess
>> University of Newcastle
>>
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