[mpich-discuss] Problems with running make

[Ron Palmer]

Reuti, good comment about primary interface for mpi and secondary for 
the rest of the world.

Yes, setting it up from scratch, and I would love a queuing system as 
well, I just had no idea such existed (learning by the minute!). These 
computers are dedicated to this parallelisation jobs I am running and 
will not run anything else. Would you be able to point my nose in a 
direction of a simple queuing system?

All my parallel processing are controlled by my own perl scripts and 
commandline commands (provided binaries), nothing GUI at all (which is 
kinda nice).

Do you think shutting down the xserver would make any difference to the 
performance of these computers? I am pretty sure that they al have a 
windows manager running by default... I only got them going last week so 
I have not (yet) gone in to this level of detail.

Thanks,
Ron

On 4/03/2014 09:06, Reuti wrote:
> Am 03.03.2014 um 23:54 schrieb Gus Correa:
>
>> On 03/03/2014 04:36 PM, Ron Palmer wrote:
>>> Thanks Reuti for your comments. I will peruse that FAQ detail.
>>>
>>> I just thought of the fact that each of these rack computers have 4
>>> ethernet sockets, eth0 - eth3... I could connect the cluster on a
>>> separate ethernet sockets via an extra switch not connected to the
>>> internet or any other computers, and accept all communication among
>>> them, and keep iptables up on the ethx connected to the outside world. I
>>> guess I would have to set up routing tables or something. Ah, more
>>> reading :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> Ron
>>>
>> Hi Ron
>>
>> If those extra interfaces are not in use,
>> and if you have a spare switch,
>> you can setup a separate private subnet exclusively for MPI.
>> You need to configure the interfaces consistently (IP, subnet mask,
>> perhaps a gateway). Configuring them statically is easy:
>>
>> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation//en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Deployment_Guide/index.html#s2-networkscripts-interfaces-eth0
>>
>> Use a subnet that doesn't intersect the existent/original IP range.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
>>
>> You could also create host names associated to those IPs (say
>> node01, node02, node02), resolve them via /etc/hosts on each computer,
>> set passwordless ssh across these newly named "hosts".
>> This may simpler/safer than messing with the iptables.
>>
>> [Actually, the IP addresses you showed 192.168.X.Y, sound as a private
>> subnet already, not Internet, but that may be the subnet for your
>> organization/school/department already. So, you may set up a different
>> one on these three computers for MPI and very-local access.]
> Yep, maybe in the 10.0.0.0/8 range.
>
> BTW: are you setting up a cluster from scratch - will you also add any queuing system later on?
>
>
>> OpenMPI allows you to choose the interface that it will use,
>> so you can direct it to your very-local subnet:
>>
>> http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=tcp#tcp-selection
> MPICH:
>
> http://wiki.mpich.org/mpich/index.php/Using_the_Hydra_Process_Manager#Hydra_with_Non-Ethernet_Networks
>
> It should work for other Ethernet interfaces too.
>
> Nevertheless: in any case it might be easier for the applications to use the primary interface solely for MPI, and any other one for the external access (this is usually my setup, as I don't have to provide the assignment of other interfaces this way).
>
> -- Reuti
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