Hi Eric Thank you very much for your reply.
I am a PhD student, and I do need this comparison for academic purposes; a fairly generic one will do, and I guess after running on both, I might have my own application/hardware specific points to add, Thanks again, I appreciate it, Manal On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:17 -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote: > See comments below: > > Le lundi 3 juillet 2006 23:01, Manal Helal a écrit : > > Hi > > > > I am having problems running a multi-threaded applications using MPICH > > 2, and considering moving to OpenMPI. I already have mpich2 installed, > > and don't want to uninstall as yet. Can I have both installed and works > > fine on the same machine? > Yes, simply run the configure script with something like: > > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/openmpi-`uname -m` > > You will then be able to compile applications with: > > ~/openmpi-i686/bin/mpicc app.c -o app > > And run them with: > > ~/openmpi-i686/bin/mpirun -np 3 app > > > Also, I searched for a comparison of features of mpich vs lammpi vs > > openmpi and didn't find any so far. Will you please help me find one? > > Comparison is only relevant on your hardware with you application. Any other > comparison are mostly for academic purposes and grand assignments ;) > > > Thank you for your help in advance, > > > > Regards, > > > > Manal >
