Hi Actually all you need is in this faq: http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running The analogues to the lam-mpi hostfiles is discussed here http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#mpirun-host and here http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#mpirun-host
There is no booting required. All you do is start your application with mpirun mpirun --hostfile my_hostfile -np 4 my_parallel_application jody On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Rob Malpass <l...@getiton.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > Hi > > Could someone help me out with some documentation? I'm searched the faq > and can't find exactly what I'm after - which is a sort of setup guide. > > Thus far, I have a couple of Ubuntu nodes running openmpi-1.2.6. I've > currently got one setup so it can ssh into the other without a password so I > guess all I need to do now is to run the job. With lam, there was > lam-bhost.def but I've not (this is where I need the help) found any > documentation that talks about the hostfile. The only thing I can find is > > http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#simple-launch > > but with lam, as I recall there were a whole host (no pun intended!) of > configuration files and some test scripts like recon and lamboot to "boot > the supercomputer". Are there no such files here? > > I hope this doesn't offend - I have searched the faq but I can't find > exactly what I'm after - is there a setup guide somewhere? > > Thanks > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
