Thank you for all the replies.
Here's what I have now.
I modified my .bash_profile on my server to include the path of my executables,
and now mpiexec and mpicc both point to the correct ones. I tried setting the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH too, but it didn't seem to work, as it kept telling me it
couldn't find the sharded library libmpi.so.0, although 'which libmpi.so.0'
gave me the correct location. Then I modified the /etc/ld.so.conf file to
include the directory of the libraries, and now the MPI programs work correctly
on the server.
Now, my problem is that I have trouble running the program using my PC and
remotely on my server. I have the IP address of my server in the
openmpi-default-hostfile in my PC, and I have set up a password-less ssh
between them (though I have set it up such that it asks for a passphrase). All
my programs and executables are in the shared folder. However, when I tried to
run the program on my PC using 'mpiexec -n 2 ./a.out', I get the following
error:
"Failed to find or execute the following executable:
Host: (Name of my server)
Executable: ./a.out
Cannot continue."
If I try to compile then execute the program locally, on both my PC and server,
they run fine. It's only when I try to get both PC and server to run the
program concurrently, (which is the purpose of using MPI) that I get the error.
I have checked and the a.out file is exactly the same on the PC and server, in
terms of the size and date/time modified.
One thing is that my PC is a 64-bit machine, and my server is a 32-bit machine.
Could this be a factor, that a program compiled on a 64-bit machine cannot run
on a 32-bit machine?
Also, I don't quite understand the mechanism of how MPI allows one machine to
communicate with another. For example, after compiling a program, an executable
is created and stored on that machine and also on the remote nodes, through the
use of a shared system. So when I run the program, how does the machine I'm at
get the remode nodes to run the program too?
Thank you, and sorry for the long email.
Regards,
Rayne
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