Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Gus Correa
Hi Tena Answers inline. Tena Sakai wrote: Hi Gus, Hence, I don't understand why the lack of symmetry in the firewall protection. Either vixen's is too loose, or dashen's is too tight, I'd risk to say. Maybe dashen was installed later, just got whatever boilerplate firewall that comes with Red

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Gus, > Hence, I don't understand why the lack of symmetry in the > firewall protection. > Either vixen's is too loose, or dashen's is too tight, I'd risk to say. > Maybe dashen was installed later, just got whatever boilerplate firewall > that comes with RedHat, CentOS, Fedora. > If there is a

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Gus Correa
Tena Sakai wrote: Hi Kevin, Thanks for your reply. Dasher is physically located under my desk and vixen is in a cecure data center. does dasher have any network interfaces that vixen does not? No, I don't think so. Here is more definitive info: [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ ifconfig eth0 L

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Gus, Thank you very much for your help and reply. I agree with each and every point you make. I look forward to the day I can write 'little How To.' Regards, Tena On 2/14/11 1:47 PM, "Gus Correa" wrote: > Hi Tena > > Answers inline. > This is getting big! > > Tena Sakai wrote: >> Hi Gus

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Jeff. That's good to know, but for now I am going to stick to -app option. For this old dog can't learn new tricks so fast. Regards, Tena On 2/14/11 6:18 AM, "Jeff Squyres" wrote: > On Feb 13, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > >> I have a file app.ac3, which looks like: >>

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Jeff, Many thanks for your reply / post. > This is most telling to me (that you have a custom-built Linux) I want to be clear that what I have is custom-built ami (Amazon machine image), which is based on (run of the mill) centos 5.5. > - pointer is invalid (which is not the case here) > - pr

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Ashley, You nailed it precisely. I turned dasher's firewall off per your instruction and the problem went away. [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ cat app.ac3 -H dasher.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname -H dasher.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname -H vixen.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname -H vixen.egcrc.org -np 1 h

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your reply. Dasher is physically located under my desk and vixen is in a cecure data center. > does dasher have any network interfaces that vixen does not? No, I don't think so. Here is more definitive info: [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Gus Correa
Hi Tena Ashley already answered the main point. See more comments below. Ashley Pittman wrote: > On 14 Feb 2011, at 21:10, Tena Sakai wrote: >> Regarding firewall, they are different: > >> I don't understand what they mean. Well, IPtables syntax is kind of unfriendly. The firewall in dasher see

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Gus Correa
Hi Tena Answers inline. This is getting big! Tena Sakai wrote: Hi Gus, Thank you for your reply, comments, and suggestions. EC2 does have support, but it is with extra charge and I am discouraged to use it for budgetary reasons. Also, I have heard that their support is a bit toward virtualiz

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Ashley Pittman
On 14 Feb 2011, at 21:10, Tena Sakai wrote: > Regarding firewall, they are different: > > I don't understand what they mean. vixen has a normal, or empty config and as such has no firewall, dasher has a number of firewall rules configured which could easily be the cause of the problem on thes

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Kevin . Buckley
This probably shows my lack of understanding as to how OpenMPI negotiates the connectivity between nodes when given a choice of interfaces but anyway: does dasher have any network interfaces that vixen does not? The scenario I am imgaining would be that you ssh into dasher from vixen using a "n

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Gus, Thank you for your response. I have verified that 1) /etc/hosts files on both machines vixen and dasher are identical 2) both machines have nothing but comments in hosts.allow and hosts.deny Regarding firewall, they are different: On vixen this how it looks: [root@vixen ec2]# cat /etc

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Gus Correa
Tena Sakai wrote: Hi Reuti, a) can you ssh from dasher to vixen? Yes, no problem. [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ hostname dasher.egcrc.org [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ ssh vixen Last login: Mon Feb 14 10:39:20 2011 from dasher.egcrc.org [tsakai@vixen ~

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Reuti, > a) can you ssh from dasher to vixen? Yes, no problem. [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ hostname dasher.egcrc.org [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ [tsakai@dasher Rmpi]$ ssh vixen Last login: Mon Feb 14 10:39:20 2011 from dasher.egcrc.org [tsakai@vixen ~]$ [tsakai@vixen ~

Re: [OMPI users] runtime error

2011-02-14 Thread Jeff Squyres
What happens if you try to mpirun a non-MPI program like, "date" or "hostname"? On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Marcela Castro León wrote: > Excuse me. I forgot the attaching. > > 2011/2/11 Marcela Castro León > Hello: > > I've the same version ob Ubuntu 10.04. The original version was Ubuntu Se

Re: [OMPI users] MPI_ERR_IN_STATUS from MPI_Bcast?

2011-02-14 Thread Jeff Squyres
Thanks Jeremiah; I filed the following ticket about this: https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2723 On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Jeremiah Willcock wrote: > I forgot to mention that this was tested with 3 or 4 ranks, connected via TCP. > > -- Jeremiah Willcock > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011,

Re: [OMPI users] Deadlock/NULL pointer dereference in openib BTL

2011-02-14 Thread Jeff Squyres
Thanks Jeremiah; I've filed the following ticket about this: https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2722 On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Jeremiah Willcock wrote: > Running the following program on two nodes connected by Infiniband and OMPI > 1.5.1 (openib BTL), one task per node: > > #in

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you. Ashley, for clarification between sudo and su. I live in a sphere of ignorance, but I feel I am slightly enlightened. Regards, Tena On 2/14/11 1:39 AM, "Ashley Pittman" wrote: > > "sudo" and "su" are two similar commands for doing nearly identical things, > you should be running o

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Feb 13, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > I have a file app.ac3, which looks like: > [tsakai@vixen Rmpi]$ cat app.ac3 > -H dasher.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname > -H dasher.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname > -H vixen.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname > -H vixen.egcrc.org -np 1 hostname Note that you

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Feb 13, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > Also, here is an idea I came up in my sleep that I want to check > out. The ami I have been using is a centos 5.5, which I have built > from ground up. EC2 has something called Amazon Linux ami. I > don't know what distribution that is and I am s

Re: [OMPI users] (no subject)

2011-02-14 Thread Jeff Squyres
This type of error message *usually* means that you haven't set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the intel library. Further, this *usually* means that you aren't sourcing the iccvars.sh file in your shell startup file on remote nodes (or iccvars.csh, depending on your shell). Remember that the

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Reuti
Hi, Am 14.02.2011 um 04:54 schrieb Tena Sakai: > I have digressed and started downward descent... > > I was trying to make a simple and clear case. Everything > I write in this very mail is about local machines. There > is no virtual machines involved. I am talking about two > machines, vixen

Re: [OMPI users] How does authentication between nodes work without password? (Newbie alert on)

2011-02-14 Thread Ashley Pittman
"sudo" and "su" are two similar commands for doing nearly identical things, you should be running one or the other but there is no need to run both. "sudo -s" is probably the command you should have used. It's a very common mistake. sudo is a command for allowing you to run commands as anothe