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Lam-MPI

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

While I was in ADA lab, we had all sort of problems with running lam-mpi across our nodes. Anyway, it was worth it and was quiet fun sometimes to work with it.

MPI Cloud

You can find good tutorials here on their website, but even after reading these you may encounter some unexpected problems. How to solve theseproblems? Always Google them use Google search engine to find the solution.

As you know, if you know lam-mpi, you should “wipe” the mp-cloud clean if you want to stop it; or if you want to restart it. It uses RSH which is sometimes not very easy to deal with. I wrote some scripts to ease the start-up and cleaning process.

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