[mpich-discuss] _get_addr error while running application using MPICH

[William Gropp]

This is not quite true.  From the MPI standard:

> 10.5.2 Singleton MPI_INIT
> 
> A high-quality implementation will allow any process (including those not started with a “parallel application” mechanism) to become an MPI process by calling MPI_INIT.  
> 

There was a time when MPICH could do this, and there were features in the original PMI to support this.

Bill

William Gropp
Director and Chief Scientist, NCSA
Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign






> On Nov 13, 2018, at 10:27 AM, Si, Min via discuss <discuss at mpich.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Zhifeng,
> 
> You have to always execute the MPI program by using mpirun or mpiexec with -np <number of processes>.
> 
> At MPI_Init, the process tries to read information (e.g., MPI rank, number of processes) from the PMI server which is another process launched by the mpiexec command. This information is necessary for MPI library to initialize communication (e.g., connecting two processes).
> 
> Best regards,
> Min
> 
> On 2018/11/04 10:27, Zhifeng Yang via discuss wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> After I installed mpich and used it in a FORTRAN code. There is an error while running this FORTRAN code called real.exe by using the following command
>> 
>> $./real.exe
>> or
>> $mpirun ./real.exe
>> real.exe: error: _get_addr: No such file or directory
>> real.exe: error: _get_addr: No such file or directory
>> real.exe: error: _get_addr: No such file or directory
>> Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:
>> MPIR_Init_thread(784).....:
>> MPID_Init(1323)...........: channel initialization failed
>> MPIDI_CH3_Init(120).......:
>> MPID_nem_init_ckpt(852)...:
>> MPIDI_CH3I_Seg_commit(364): PMI_Barrier returned -1
>>  
>> But while using mpirun with specifying number of processors. as follows
>> $mpirun -np 1 ./real.exe
>> There is no error any more. I am not sure why? do you have any explanation? Thank you very much
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Zhifeng
>> 
>> 
>> 
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