Running MPI Locally
MPI is not "officially" installed on the CSEE machines, though this
can be done if there is enough interest. For now, to run the mpich
implementation of MPI on the CSEE machines, you need to do the
following:
- Add ~motteler/mpich/bin to your search path. This needs to be
done in your shell startup file (e.g., .profile or .cshrc) rather
than "by hand," as the rsh command needs this path for mpirun
to work
- Add ~motteler/mpich/man to your MANPATH, to get the MPI man
pages
- Check the file
~motteler/mpich/bin/machines/machines.IRIX. You need to have
the machines listed there in your .rhosts file
- There is a simple demo program and
example makefile available; the
makefile shows how to link to the MPI libraries. Try compiling the
example program (as bogey.c) and then running it with "mpirun -np 4
bogey".
Documentation
A great deal of documentation is available on the
"official" MPI web page. The following are particularly
recommended: