Are there any application that i can implement on a small level, in a lab or something???
Also what do for clustering web servers? On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Gus Correa <g...@ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote: > Hi Ankush > > Glad to hear that your MPI and cluster project were successful. > > I don't know if you would call these "mathematical computation" > or "real life applications" of MPI and clusters, but here are a > few samples I am familiar with (Earth Science): > > Weather forecast: > http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php > http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/ > > Climate, Atmosphere and Ocean circulation modeling: > http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/ccsm3.0/ > http://www.jamstec.go.jp/esc/index.en.html > http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/ > http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/fms > http://www.nemo-ocean.eu/ > > Earthquakes, computational seismology, and solid Earth dynamics: > http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~jtromp/research/index.html<http://www.gps.caltech.edu/%7Ejtromp/research/index.html> > http://www-esd.lbl.gov/GG/CCS/ > > A couple of other areas: > > Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Method, etc: > http://www.foamcfd.org/ > http://www.cimec.org.ar/twiki/bin/view/Cimec/PETScFEM > > Computational Chemistry, molecular dynamics, etc: > http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > http://classic.chem.msu.su/gran/gamess/ > http://ambermd.org/ > http://www.gromacs.org/ > http://www.charmm.org/ > > Gus Correa > > > Ankush Kaul wrote: > >> Thanks everyone(esp Gus and Jeff) for the support and guidance. We are >> almost at the verge of completing our project which could have not been >> possible without all u guys. >> >> I would like to know one more thing, what are real life applications that >> i can use the cluster for (except mathematical computation)? Can i use if >> for my web server, if yes then how? >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com<mailto: >> jsquy...@cisco.com>> wrote: >> >> Excellent answer. One addendum -- we had a really nice FAQ entry >> about this kind of stuff on the LAM/MPI web site, which I was >> horrified to see that we had not copied to the Open MPI site. So I >> copied it over this morning. :-) >> >> Have a look at these 3 FAQ (brand new) entries: >> >> >> http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building#overwrite-pre-installed-ompi >> http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building#where-to-install >> >> http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#do-i-need-a-common-filesystem >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 23, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Gus Correa wrote: >> >> Hi Ankush >> >> Jeff already sent clarifications about image processing, >> and the portable API nature of OpenMPI (and other MPI >> implementations). >> >> As for "mpicc: command not found" this is again a problem with your >> PATH. >> Remember the "locate" command? :) >> Find where mpicc is installed, and put that directory on your PATH. >> >> In any case, I would suggest that you choose a central NFS mounted >> file system on your cluster master node, and install OpenMPI there, >> configuring and building it from source (not from yum). >> If this directory is mounted on all nodes, the same OpenMPI will be >> available on all nodes. >> This will give you a single standard version of OpenMPI across >> the board. >> >> Clustering can become a very confusing and tricky business if you >> have heterogeneous nodes, with different OS/Linux versions, >> different MPI versions etc, software installed in different >> locations >> on each node, etc, regardless of whether you use mpiselector or >> you set the PATH variable on each node, or you use environment >> modules >> package, or any other technique to setup your environment. >> Installing less software, rather than more software, >> and doing so in a standardized homogeneous way across all >> cluster nodes, >> will give you a cleaner environment, which is easier to understand, >> control, upgrade, and update. >> >> A relatively simple way to install a homogeneous cluster is >> to use the Rocks Clusters "rolls" suite, >> which is free and based on CentOS. >> It will probably give you some extra work in the beginning, >> but may be worthwhile in the long run. >> See this: >> http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/ >> >> >> My two cents. >> >> Gus Correa >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Gustavo Correa >> Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University >> Palisades, NY, 10964-8000 - USA >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Ankush Kaul wrote: >> > @Gus, Eugene >> > I read all you mails and even followed the same procedure, it >> was blas >> > that was giving the problem. >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > I am again stuck on a problem, i connected a new node to my >> cluster and >> > installed CentOS 5.2 on it. after that i use yum to install >> > openmpi,openmpi-libs and openmpi-devel sucessfully. >> > >> > But still when i run mpicc command it gives me error : >> > /bash: mpicc: command not found/ >> > >> > i found out there is a command *mpi-selector* but dont know >> hoe to use it. >> > Is this a new version of openmpi? how do i configure it? >> > >> > >> > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > us...@open-mpi.org <mailto:us...@open-mpi.org> >> > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org <mailto:us...@open-mpi.org> >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> >> >> -- Jeff Squyres >> Cisco Systems >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org <mailto:us...@open-mpi.org> >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
