can you install MPI on your local machine? As someone said earlier, you don't need a cluster to run MPI. You can run MPI with multiple processes on a single computer.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Ashley Pittman <ash...@pittman.co.uk>wrote: > > On 25 Oct 2010, at 20:18, Jack Bryan wrote: > > > Thanks > > I have downloaded > > http://padb.googlecode.com/files/padb-3.0.tgz > > > > and compile it. > > > > But, no user manual, I can not use it by padb -aQ. > > The -a flag is a shortcut to all jobs, if you are providing a jobid (which > is normally numeric) then don't set the -a flag. > > > Do you have use manual about how to use it ? > > In my previous mail I was assuming you were using orte to launch the jobs > but if you are using PBS then you'll need to use the 3.2 beta as the PBS > code is new, alternatively you could find the host where the PBS script > itself runs and check of the "ompi-ps" command gives you any output, if it > does then you could run it from there giving it the orte jobid. > > A bit of background about resource managers (in which I'm including orte > and PBS), padb supports many resource managers and tries to automatically > detect which ones you have installed on your system. If you don't specify > one then it'll see what is installed, if there is more than one resource > manager installed then it'll see which of them claim to have active jobs - > if only one resource manager meets this criteria then it'll pick that one - > hence 99% of the time it should just work. If more than one resource > manager claims to have active jobs then padb will refuse to run but ask the > user to specify one explicitly. > > You should try the following in order once you have 3.2 installed. > > padb -Ormgr=pbs -Q <myjob> > > Or - find the node where the PBS script is being executed, check that the > ompi-ps command is returning the jobid and then run > > padb -Ormgr=orte -Q <openmpi_jobid> > > Ashley, > > -- > > Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK. > > Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing > http://padb.pittman.org.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > -- David Zhang University of California, San Diego
