I am the "system admin" here (so far so good on several servers over several years but this PBS thing appear to be daunting ;-)
I suppose **run ... from *inside a Torque*** is to run things with a PBS script. I thought "qsub -l nodes=6:ppn=2 mpirun ..." already bring things into a PBS environment context. Hope I don't have to take another school to get this to work ;-) Zhiliang At 12:38 PM 9/29/2008 -0400, you wrote: >On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Zhiliang Hu wrote: > >>How you run that command line from *inside a Torque* job? >> >>-- I am only a poor biologist, reading through the manuals/tutorials >>but still don't have good clues... (thanks in advance ;-) > >Ah, gotcha. > >I'm guessing that you're running OMPI outside of a Torque job, and >that's why it's running entirely on a single machine (or on the >machines where you listed in a hostfile). > >You need to run your Open MPI job inside the Torque job that you >submit; OMPI should then detect that it is inside a Torque job and >automatically use the hosts that have been allocated by Torque. > >You probably want to consult your local sysadmin / cluster admin to >help you get Torque setup in your account, show you how to submit job >scripts, etc. (the specific instructions for how to use Torque can >vary from site to site and are a bit outside the scope of this list). > >Good luck! > >-- >Jeff Squyres >Cisco Systems > >_______________________________________________ >users mailing list >us...@open-mpi.org >http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users