Difference between revisions of "Install and configure MPI"
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| − | [[Configure_ssh_for_MPI]] | + | To use MPI on a network of computers, ypu need to be able to log in any of the computer without user interaction (password etc...) This is easily achieved using secure shell key authentication. The methodology to setup ssh to use key authentication is described in the article entitles[[Configure_ssh_for_MPI | configure ssh for MPI]]. |
= Download MPI = | = Download MPI = | ||
Revision as of 14:35, 21 August 2007
Article in construction
Pre-requesite: ssh key pair authentication
To use MPI on a network of computers, ypu need to be able to log in any of the computer without user interaction (password etc...) This is easily achieved using secure shell key authentication. The methodology to setup ssh to use key authentication is described in the article entitles configure ssh for MPI.
Download MPI
You can download from http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/. You will end up with a gzipped tarbal. For the sake of
MPI can be downloaded from http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/. Install MPI and the MPI Fortran 90 compiler (mpif90) according to the MPI documentation.
extract
Compilation
mpi directory tmp directory export F()=ifort cd tmp dir mpidir/configure --prefix=/mpidir
wait...
make 2>&1 make install
Configuration
add /path/to/mpi to PATH
create .mpd.conf as 600 with the sentence
secretword=something
something is a random string
Create hosts file
touch mpd.hosts
Trouble shooting
/etc/hosts