Dear Prof. Blaha and Duy Le Thanks for your help, but I found modifying "lapw1cpara" and "lapw1para" scripts by hand, they can work properly for me.
##################################################################### #In this section use 0 to turn of an option, 1 to turn it on, #respectively choose a value set useremote = 0 # using remote shell to launch processes set mpiremote = 1 # using remote shell to launch mpi set delay = 1 # delay launching of processes by n seconds set sleepy = 1 # additional sleep before checking set debug = 0 # verbosity of debugging output ##################################################################### Thanks once again Ricardo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ricardo Faccio Prof. Adjunto de F?sica Mail: Cryssmat-Lab., C?tedra de F?sica, DETEMA Facultad de Qu?mica, Universidad de la Rep?blica Av. Gral. Flores 2124, C.C. 1157 C.P. 11800, Montevideo, Uruguay. E-mail: rfaccio at fq.edu.uy Phone: 598 2 924 98 59 598 2 929 06 48 Fax: 598 2 9241906 Web: http://cryssmat.fq.edu.uy/ricardo/ricardo.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Blaha" <pbl...@theochem.tuwien.ac.at> To: "A Mailing list for WIEN2k users" <wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:40 AM Subject: Re: [Wien] parallel calculation stops waiting for a pass inssh root at localhost > First about "security": You should NOT run ieN2k as user "root". > > root is the system administrator, and one should be root ONLY when doing > sysadmin tasks. > Create a "regular" user and run "normal work" as restricted user. > > k-parallelization has 2 options during siteconfig: > > "shared memory" machine: This does NOT use ssh to span the parallel jobs, > but simply starts eg. 4 lapw1 jobs (in "background") on the local machine. > This is the most simple option when you have eg. a single quadcore PC, but > you cannot parallelize between 2 different PCs. > > "no shared memory": It will use a command like > ssh pcX lapw0 lapw0.def ... > to start a job on a remote but also on the local computer. > > Thus you need to be able to do "passwordless ssh" to your local computer. > > Try ssh localhost and you must be able to login WITHOUT typing a > password. For setup of this you must use ssh-keygen, for details see eg. > the UG. > > > Ricardo Faccio schrieb: >> Dear Wien users >> >> I have some problems in using parallelization over kpoints in the latest >> release of WIEN2k. It is important to mention that I had no troubles in >> the past with my settings. >> >> In particular I am working with dual-core pc desktops, and one Quad-core >> machines, individually. For instance, in a simple parallel setup, the >> typical test_case, I found this: >> >> --------- >> >> root at rfaccio:/home/rfaccio/calculo/wien2k/test_case# x lapw1 -c -up -p >> >> starting parallel lapw1 at Thu Oct 1 23:32:56 UYT 2009 >> >> -> starting parallel LAPW1 jobs at Thu Oct 1 23:32:56 UYT 2009 >> >> running LAPW1 in parallel mode (using .machines) >> >> 2 number_of_parallel_jobs >> >> [1] 30629 >> >> root at localhost's password: >> >> --------- >> >> As you can see the code keeps waiting for my password. It never happened >> before, and it seems to have no relationship with the shared memory setup >> because I used the same flags than in previous release versions. >> >> I use this .machine file: >> >> 1:localhost >> >> 1:localhost >> >> granularity:1 >> >> extrafine:1 >> >> I would like to know if there exist an easy way to fix it, because I >> would like to avoid any important modification in my security pc's stuff. >> >> Is it a new modification? or a strictly problem of the user (me!) >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Ricardo >> >> p.s.: this is my OPTION file >> >> current:FOPT:-FR -O3 -mp1 -w -prec_div -pc80 -pad -align -DINTEL_VML >> >> current:FPOPT:$(FOPT) >> >> current:LDFLAGS:$(FOPT) -L/opt/intel/Compiler/11.0/081/mkl/lib/em64t >> -pthread >> -i-static >> >> current:DPARALLEL:'-DParallel' >> >> current:R_LIBS:-lmkl_lapack -lmkl -lguide -lmkl_scalapack -lmkl_blacs_lp64 >> >> current:RP_LIBS:-lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_scalapack_lp64 -lmkl_blacs_lp64 >> -lmkl_sequential >> -L /opt/local/fftw/lib/ -lfftw_mpi -lfftw >> >> current:MPIRUN: >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Dr. Ricardo Faccio >> Prof. Adjunto de F?sica >> Mail: Cryssmat-Lab., C?tedra de F?sica, DETEMA >> Facultad de Qu?mica, Universidad de la Rep?blica >> Av. Gral. Flores 2124, C.C. 1157 >> C.P. 11800, Montevideo, Uruguay. >> E-mail: rfaccio at fq.edu.uy <mailto:rfaccio at fq.edu.uy> >> Phone: 598 2 924 98 59 >> 598 2 929 06 48 >> Fax: 598 2 9241906 >> Web: http://cryssmat.fq.edu.uy/ricardo/ricardo.htm >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wien mailing list >> Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at >> http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > > -- > ----------------------------------------- > Peter Blaha > Inst. 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