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From: Markus Dittrich <markusle@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] MPI and multicore + lib question
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:30:38
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0701120218480.1216@woodpecker.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-science] MPI and multicore + lib question by Alessandro Yoshi Polliotti
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4 On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Alessandro Yoshi Polliotti wrote:
5 > I hope I'm not asking anything too obvious but I wasn't able to find relevant
6 > information online.
7 >
8 > I have installed apbs enabling mpi, it works but it detects only one cpu in my
9 > core duo system. Strictly speaking it's correct, but not quite what I
10 > expected. I would like to know more about this behaviour, is it due to my
11 > misconfiguration of apbs, mpi, kernel or other factors?
12 >
13 > Besides this, trying to make apbs detect my two cores I tried also mpich2 and
14 > lam-mpi as mpi implementations. Using both of them and recompiling maloc apbs
15 > will complain that maloc has not been compiled with mpi support, and will
16 > keep mpi out of the build process. maloc however doesn't print any warning.
17 >
18
19 Hi Alessandro,
20
21 If I interpret your question correctly it looks
22 like you did not use mpirun to start your parallel
23 apbs job, which is what you need to do.
24 Have a look at mpirun's man page which should
25 get you started.
26
27 Best,
28 Markus
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32 Markus Dittrich (markusle)
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