Greetings Chuck, 
I tend to agree with Doug.  It hope to be able to test soon OpenMPI under
Lion/Mountain Lion.  If someone has already done so, especially with Java,
that could be quite handy.

V/R,

Daniel Beatty, Ph.D.
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On 1/3/13 9:49 AM, "Ralph Castain" <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:

> Hi Doug
> 
> What modules software do you use on the Mac? Would be nice to know :-)
> 
> 
> On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Doug Reeder <d...@centurylink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Chuck,
>> 
>> In step 4 you might want to consider the following
>> 
>> --prefix=/usr/local/openmpi-1.7rc5
>> 
>> and use the modules software to select which version of openmpi to use. I
>> have to have multiple versions of openmpi available on my macs and this
>> approach has worked well for me.
>> 
>> Doug Reeder
>> On Jan 3, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Chuck Mosher wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I've been trying to get a working version of the MPI java bindings on Mac
>>> OSX (10.6.8 with Java 1.6.0_37).
>>> 
>>> I ran into a number of issues along the way that I thought I would record
>>> here for others who might be foolish enough to try the same ;-)
>>> 
>>> The issues I had to spend time with were:
>>> 
>>> 1. Installing a C compiler that can run from the command line
>>> 2. Finding and installing an appropriate Java JDK for my OS version
>>> 3. Building and installing OpenMPI for the first time on a Mac
>>> 4. Conflicts with the existing OpenMPI version 1.2.8 that was installed
>>> already on my Mac
>>> 5. Figuring out syntax for using the mpirun command line to run java
>>> 6. Odd behavior when trying to use "localhost" or the output from `hostname`
>>> on the command line or in a hostfile
>>> 
>>> Resolution for each of these in order:
>>> 
>>> 1. Installing a C compiler for the command line
>>> Found a good resource here:
>>> http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/install_the_command_line_c_compilers_
>>> in_os_x_lion 
>>> <http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/install_the_command_line_c_compilers
>>> _in_os_x_lion> 
>>> The solution is to install XCode, then enable command line compilers from
>>> the XCode console.
>>> 
>>> 2. Finding and installing an appropriate Java JDK for my OS version
>>> Used this resource to eventually figure out what to do:
>>> http://www.wikihow.com/Install-the-JDK-(Java-Development-Kit)-on-Mac-OS-X
>>> <http://www.wikihow.com/Install-the-JDK-(Java-Development-Kit)-on-Mac-OS-X>
>>> It didn't exactly match my setup, but had enough clues.
>>> The solution is to first find your java version (java -version, 1.6.0_37 in
>>> my case) and then match that version number to the Apple Java update version
>>> (11 in my case).
>>> The key document is:
>>> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2002/tn2110.html
>>> Which is a table relating java version numbers to the appropriate "Java for
>>> Mac OS X xx.x Update xx".
>>> Once you know the update number, you can download the JDK installer from
>>> https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action
>>> where you of course have to have an Apple developer ID to access.
>>> Enter "java" in the search bar on the left and find the matching java
>>> update, and you're good to go.
>>> 
>>> 3. Building and installing OpenMPI for the first time on a Mac
>>> After the usual false starts with a new installation on a new OS, I managed
>>> to get a working build of openmpi-1.7rc5 with Java bindings.
>>> I could only find the java bindings in the 1.7 pre-release.
>>> I used the defaults as much as possible.
>>> 
>>> After downloading from:
>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.7/
>>> and unarchiving to Downloads, open a Terminal window.
>>> 
>>> cd Downloads/openmpi-1.7rc5
>>> ./configure --enable-java --prefix=/usr/local
>>> make all
>>> sudo make install
>>> 
>>> Verify that you can run the commands and examples:
>>> 
>>> chuck-> /usr/local/bin/mpirun -version
>>> mpirun (Open MPI) 1.7rc5
>>> 
>>> chuck-> cd examples
>>> chuck-> make
>>> chuck-> /usr/local/bin/mpirun -np 2 hello_c
>>> Hello, world, I am 0 of 2, (Open MPI v1.7rc5, package: Open MPI
>>> chuck@chucks-iMac.local Distribution, ident: 1.7rc5, Oct 30, 2012, 111)
>>> Hello, world, I am 1 of 2, (Open MPI v1.7rc5, package: Open MPI
>>> chuck@chucks-iMac.local Distribution, ident: 1.7rc5, Oct 30, 2012, 111)
>>> 
>>> 4. Conflicts with the existing OpenMPI version 1.2.8 that was installed
>>> already on my Mac
>>> OpenMPI Version 1.2.8 was already installed for my OS in /usr/bin
>>> So, if you accidentally type:
>>> 
>>> chuck-> mpirun -np 2 hello_c
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> A requested component was not found, or was unable to be opened
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> you picked up the wrong "mpirun" and you will get a bunch of error output
>>> complaining about sockets or mis-matched shared library versions.
>>> 
>>> I dealt with this moving the existing OpenMPI related commands to a
>>> subdirectory, and then created symbolic links from /usr/local/bin to
>>> /usr/bin for the commands I needed.
>>> 
>>> 5. Figuring out syntax for using the mpirun command line to run java
>>> First be sure you can run Java
>>> 
>>> chuck-> /usr/bin/java -version
>>> java version "1.6.0_37"
>>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06-434-10M3909)
>>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.12-b01-434, mixed mode)
>>> 
>>> Then be sure you can run your java class from the command line as well. To
>>> figure this out I created a couple of simple java files in a temp directory:
>>> 
>>> chuck-> cd ~/tmp
>>> chuck-> mkdir classes
>>> chuck -> cat HelloWorld.java
>>> 
>>> public class HelloWorld {
>>>   public static void main(String[] args) {
>>>     System.out.println("Hello World, from Java !");
>>>   }
>>> }
>>> 
>>> chuck-> javac -d classes HelloWorld.java
>>> chuck-> java -cp ./classes HelloWorld
>>> 
>>> Hello World, from Java !
>>> 
>>> No sense going further until you can get the code above to run.
>>> If you have that working, then you can try the MPI version of HelloWorld:
>>> 
>>> chuck-> cat HelloWorldMPI.java
>>> 
>>> import mpi.*;
>>> class HelloWorldMPI {
>>>   public static void main(String[] args) throws MPIException {
>>>     MPI.Init(args);
>>>     System.out.println("Hello world from rank " +
>>>       MPI.COMM_WORLD.Rank() + " of " +
>>>       MPI.COMM_WORLD.Size() );
>>>     MPI.Finalize();
>>>   }
>>> }
>>> 
>>> chuck-> /usr/local/bin/mpijavac -d classes HelloWorldMPI.java
>>> /usr/local/bin/mpirun -np 2 /usr/bin/java -cp ./classes HelloWorldMPI
>>> 
>>> Hello world from rank 0 of 2
>>> Hello world from rank 1 of 2
>>> 
>>> And you're ready to go !
>>> Except for one last thing ...
>>> 
>>> 6. Odd behavior when trying to use "localhost" or the output from `hostname`
>>> on the command line or in a hostfile
>>> You will note in the examples above no host names, hostifle, or appfile was
>>> used.
>>> I found that trying to use "-host localhost" or "-hostfile hostfile" which
>>> contained "localhost" would not work:
>>> 
>>> mpirun -host localhost -np 2 ...
>>> 
>>> in the examples above would not work, returning:
>>> 
>>> chuck$ /usr/local/bin/mpirun -host localhost -np 2 /usr/bin/java -cp
>>> ./classes HelloWorldMPI
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> All nodes which are allocated for this job are already filled.
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> I posted this in a previous e-mail to this list, and it looks like a bug.
>>> You can get around it by using the output from `hostname -s` which provides
>>> a trimmed name:
>>> 
>>> chuck-> /usr/local/bin/mpirun -host `hostname -s` -np 2 /usr/bin/java -cp
>>> ./classes HelloWorldMPI
>>> Hello world from rank 0 of 2
>>> Hello world from rank 1 of 2
>>> 
>>> You will also need to use this name in any hostfiles or appfiles as well
>>> until the bug is fixed.
>>> 
>>> Thanks to all for this great product !
>>> 
>>> Chuck Mosher for JavaSeis.org <http://javaseis.org/>
>>> 
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