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On Friday 12 January 2007 03:29, Markus Dittrich wrote: |
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> If I interpret your question correctly it looks |
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> like you did not use mpirun to start your parallel |
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> apbs job, which is what you need to do. |
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> Have a look at mpirun's man page which should |
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> get you started. |
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Bingo :) |
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On Monday 15 January 2007 03:03, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: |
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> This may be slightly OT, and I dont know apbs, but are you sure that MPI is |
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> what you need? To my knowledge, MPI is for distributed computing, i.e. when |
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> you have several nodes to do calculating work. |
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> As far as I understand you only have one computer. Wouldn't some shared |
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> memory parallel implementation like OpenMP make more sense? |
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You are right, however I'm probably going to setup a cluster and this is part |
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of an evaluation to determine the advantages and problems I could have. |
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Honestly right now I know near nothing about mpi and I'd like to understand |
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how it works before I get a request to create a production environment based |
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on it. ;) |
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That's why I'm trying to make it work on my laptop where I have full control |
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of the system. |
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