Am 26.08.2013 um 12:53 schrieb Federico Carotenuto:

> Kind Reuti,
> 
> Thanks for your quick reply!
> 
> 
> I'm afraid I didn't set a machinefile...that may be the problem: I'm fairly 
> new to MPI and SSH and I'm still quite confused even after reading some 
> tutorials.

There is a default. But you can also specify it on the command line to test it:

mpiexec -host modelstation -np 2 mpihello

-- Reuti


> My etc/hosts contains: 127.0.0.1 localhost and 127.0.1.1 modelstation 
> (modelstation is the machine name I was mentioning in the previous mail)
> 
> if I type hostname the terminal returns modelstation
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
> Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> ha scritto:
> 
>> Am 26.08.2013 um 12:15 schrieb Federico Carotenuto:
>> 
>>> I'm currently having this issue with mpirun: I want to launch a program 
>>> only on the cores of the local machine, but every time I run an mpi program 
>>> it says that the host 127.0.0.1 <local_machine_name> with it's associated 
>>> key is unkown and asks me if I want to add it to the list of ssh known 
>>> hosts.
>>> 
>>> By chowing/chmodding the .ssh file I was able to permanently add this 
>>> "host" to the list of known hosts, but my problem is that every program 
>>> that I try to run ask me to insert a password (the actual local user 
>>> password) n times where n is equal to the -np parameter (i.e.: if I run the 
>>> program on 8 cores I receive 8 successive password pronts).
>>> 
>>> If I insert the password everything runs fine, but it's quite annoying and 
>>> I wish to bypass such step: is there a way to have mpirun memorize the 
>>> password? Or make him understand that the 8 nodes are actually 8 cores on 
>>> the local machine and not 8 different hosts?
>> 
>> Which hostname do you specify in your machinefile?
>> Which hostnames are set in /etc/hosts for your local machine?
>> What is the output of `hostname`? Does it match the one in the machinefile?
>> 
>> For systemd there is a new command `hostnamectl --static set-hostname 
>> [NAME]` to set it.
>> 
>> -- Reuti
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