[Beowulf] installint MPI 1.x on RHEL 5.4

[Jon Tegner]

Haven't followed this guide

http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/Articles/Warewulf-Cluster-Manager-Master-and-Compute-Nodes

but it certainly looks really good.

/jon

On 04/27/2014 07:08 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 10:45:05 AM Bhabani Samantray wrote:
>
>>         I want to install MPI 1.x on RHEL 5.4.
> One thing to add to Andy's excellent answer, you need to understand that
> "install MPI 1.x" doesn't really make any sense.
>
> MPI itself is just a standard, it's currently up to version 3 and there are
> many implementations of various versions available.
>
> I would recommend you follow Andy's suggestion and install Open-MPI 1.8.1,
> though whether you do so by building RPMs or instead install to a central
> location that all nodes mount via NFS or similar is a choice that is up to
> you.
>
> You may also want to take a look at EasyBuild too:
>
> http://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild/
>
> There is no one way to correctly build a Beowulf cluster, it's really down to
> what your needs are.
>
> Good luck!
> Chris