Re: [OMPI users] Cannot launch slots on more than 2 remote machines

2011-03-28 Thread Igor
Thank you for your help! The issue is definitely the firewall. I guess, since I don't plan on having any communication between "slave" nodes of my cluster (SPMD with no cross-talk), and it is fairly small, I'll stick with option 2 for now. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > I

Re: [OMPI users] Cannot launch slots on more than 2 remote machines

2011-03-28 Thread Ralph Castain
It is hanging because your last nodes are not receiving the launch command. The daemons receive a message from mpirun telling them what to launch. That message is sent via a tree-like routing algorithm. So mpirun sends to the first two daemons, each of which relays it on to some number of daemon

[OMPI users] Cannot launch slots on more than 2 remote machines

2011-03-28 Thread Igor
Hello, First off, complete MPI newbie here. I have installed openmpi-1.4.3-1.fc13.i686 on an IBM blade cluster running Fedora. I can open as many slots as I want on remote machines, as long as I only connect to two machines (doesn't matter which two). For example, I run my mpi task from "cluster"