Re: [OMPI users] Syntax error in remote rsh execution

2007-10-24 Thread Tim Prins
Glad you found the problem. Don't worry about the '--num_proc 3'. This does not refer to the number of application processes, but rather the number of 'daemon' processes plus 1 for mpirun. However, this is an internal interface which changes on different versions of Open MPI, so this explanati

Re: [OMPI users] Syntax error in remote rsh execution

2007-10-24 Thread Jorge Parra
Hi Tim, Thank you for your reply. You are right, my openMPI version is rather old. However I am stuck with it while I can compile v1.2.4. I have had some problems with it (I already opened a case on Oct 15th). You were also right about my hostname. uname -n reports (none) and the "hostname"

Re: [OMPI users] Syntax error in remote rsh execution

2007-10-22 Thread Tim Prins
Sorry to reply to my own mail. Just browsing through the logs you sent, and I see that 'hostname' should be working fine. However, you are using v1.1.5 which is very old. I would strongly suggest upgrading to v1.2.4. It is a huge improvement over the old v1.1 series (which is not being maintai

Re: [OMPI users] Syntax error in remote rsh execution

2007-10-22 Thread Tim Prins
Hi Jorge, This is interesting. The problem is the universe name: root@(none):default-universe The "(none)" part is supposed to be the hostname where mpirun is executed. Try running: hostname and: uname -n These should both return valid hostnames for your machine. Open MPI pretty much assumes