Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Steven VanderWiel <svw>
Subject: Re: SGI MIPCH Question
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: 12 Sep 1995 17:50:25 GMT
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In answer to my own question, I have been forwarded a solution to this
problem by ANL.  I don't think the author would mine me posting the fix 
here :


> You should configure with 
> 
>   configure -arch=sgi -device=ch_p4 -comm=shared
>   make
> 
> This will give you a version that can use both sockets and shared-memory 
> simultaneously on the SGI.  Do not use the ch_shmem device; it is for 
> shared-memory only.
> 
> There is a bug in mpirun that is fixed for the next release, due out in a few
> weeks.  In the meantime, bypass mpirun by writing the group_file just as you
> have shown below, and doing
> 
>    program -p4pg group_file
> 
> If you name the group_file either program.pg or procgroup, then it will look
> for it automatically, and you won't have to give the command-line arguments.

I hope others find this information useful.

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