Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-30 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Ashika Umanga Umagiliya wrote: I am parallelizing tomography algorithm which takes about 5 hours using single processor. I want to gain full performance and should reduce the computational time as short as possible. I was wondering the SSh/RSH launcher could be

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread Ashika Umanga Umagiliya
Thanks all for the answers, I am parallelizing tomography algorithm which takes about 5 hours using single processor. I want to gain full performance and should reduce the computational time as short as possible. I was wondering the SSh/RSH launcher could be a performance issue?(I am jus

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:19 AM, vipin kumar wrote: Q. Since I am using TCP/Ethernet I guess that MPI uses SSH/RSH to communicate between peers. Ans. May be you are right. I don't know exactly how peers communicate in MPI environment, but I can say for sure that OpenMPI uses rsh/ssh as one of

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions / ssh_known_hosts

2009-06-29 Thread Reuti
Hi, Am 29.06.2009 um 08:08 schrieb jody: Hi Umanga Yes, ssh (or rsh) should be configured on every machine, and it must be configured in such a way that no passwords are needed to make a connection. For example, for passwordless connection using ssh i place every node's public key into th

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread vipin kumar
Hi Ashika, Q. Since I am using TCP/Ethernet I guess that MPI uses SSH/RSH to communicate between peers. Ans. May be you are right. I don't know exactly how peers communicate in MPI environment, but I can say for sure that OpenMPI uses rsh/ssh as one of the available launchers. Q. And for that, e

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread jody
Hi Umanga Yes, ssh (or rsh) should be configured on every machine, and it must be configured in such a way that no passwords are needed to make a connection. For example, for passwordless connection using ssh i place every node's public key into the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of every node. And,

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread Ashika Umanga Umagiliya
Hi Vipin , Thanks alot for the reply. I went through the FAQ and it also answered some of my questions. But my problem is, since I am using TCP/Ethernet I guess that MPI uses SSH/RSH to communicate between peers. And for that, each peer should have the copy of the application right? I use 1.2

Re: [OMPI users] Some Newbie questions

2009-06-29 Thread vipin kumar
Hi, I am not expert, I am user like you but I think I can help you, Q. After installing OpenMPI on each machine ,do i need to run a service/daemon on each machine? Ans. No, not at all, Open MPI takes care of that for you. Q. How does peers in MPI environment communicate ? Ans. Using Communicator(