Dear Rob, Thank you for your pointer. It was down to simple machinefile syntax error, mpich is fine. I got it working across multiple nodes. Arthur -----Original Message----- From: Teck-Bin Arthur Lim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 10:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Problem with Mpich3.0.4 build for WRF run across multiple nodes in a cluster. Dear Rob, Thanks, my machinefile and script are simple, as follows: ********************************************* [limtba@fdns00_ws testenv-testlib]$ more mpi-script nohup time mpirun -machinefile machinefile -np 8 ./a.out >& log.aout & [limtba@fdns00_ws testenv-testlib]$ more machinefile fdns00_ib cpu=3 fdns01_ib cpu=2 fdns02_ib cpu=3 ********************************************* Is there some syntax error? This is only a small test. Without machinefile, mpich works fine on sinlge node. Arthur -----Original Message----- From: Rob Latham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 11:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Problem with Mpich3.0.4 build for WRF run across multiple nodes in a cluster. On 06/21/2016 05:58 AM, Teck-Bin Arthur Lim wrote:

Hi ,

I met with a basic problem trying to get old mpich(3.0.4) version to do parallel run across different machines in a mini-cluster. The error messages

while invoking the mpiruns are :

*****************error messages********************

[limtba@fdns00_ws testenv-testlib]$ ./mpi-script

[limtba@fdns00_ws testenv-testlib]$ more log.aout

[mpiexec@fdns00_ws] HYDU_process_mfile_token (./utils/args/args.c:299): token cpu not supported at this time

[mpiexec@fdns00_ws] HYDU_parse_hostfile (./utils/args/args.c:347): unable to process token

what does your machine file look like? it sounds like you've got something in there that Hydra does not expect. ==rob

[mpiexec@fdns00_ws] mfile_fn (./ui/mpich/utils.c:341): error parsing hostfile

[mpiexec@fdns00_ws] match_arg (./utils/args/args.c:153): match handler returned error

[mpiexec@fdns00_ws] HYDU_parse_array (./utils/args/args.c:175): argument matching returned error

[mpiexec@fdns00_ws] parse_args (./ui/mpich/utils.c:1609): error parsing input array

[mpiexec@fdns00_ws] HYD_uii_mpx_get_parameters (./ui/mpich/utils.c:1660): unable to parse user arguments

[mpiexec@fdns00_ws] main (./ui/mpich/mpiexec.c:153): error parsing parameters

Command exited with non-zero status 255

*****************error messages********************

This old version was downloaded from WRF site (http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/compilation_tutorial.php# STEP2) , and was built

with essentially, all the default configuration settings without any options arguments given in the configure/make/make-install process, as :

Ø./configure -prefix=$DIR/mpich

Ømake

Ømake install

There are no error messages during the built process, and the mpirun works fine for parallel runs, using multiple processors, on a single NODE only

but met with the above error messages when attempting parallel run across multiple machines.

I need some advice as to how get this old mpich 3.0.4 working across machines. The OS for these machines are Centos5.5, with gcc4.1.2 and

gcc4.4.7 installations. As WRF needs gcc4.4 and higher version, I have built the mpich3.04 using gcc4.4.7.

Would appreciate any help and advices.

Many Thanks.

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