Hi, Jeff many thanks for your reply..
> 1. You might want to update your version of Open MPI if possible; the > v1.1.1 version is quite old. We have added many new bug fixes and > features since v1.1.1 (including tight SGE integration). There is > nothing special about the Open MPI that is included in the OFED > distribution; you can download a new version from the Open MPI web > site (the current stable version is v1.2.3), configure, compile, and > install it with your current OFED installation. You should be able > to configure Open MPI with: Hmm, I've heard about conflicts with OMPI 1.2.x and OFED 1.1 (sorry no refference here), and I've got no luck producing a working OMPI installation ("mpirun --help" runs, and ./IMB-MPI compiles and runs too, but "mpirun -np 2 node03,node14 IMB-MPI1" doesnt (segmentation fault))... (beside that, I know that OFED 1.1 is quite old too) So I'm tested it with OMPI 1.1.5 => same error. > 2. I know little/nothing about SGE, but I'm assuming that you need to > have SGE pass the proper memory lock limits to new processes. In an > interactive login, you showed that the max limit is "8162952" -- you > might just want to make it unlimited, unless you have a reason for > limiting it. See http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/? yes I allready read the faq, and even setting them to unlimited has shown not be working. In the SGE one could specify the limits to SGE-jobs by e.g. the qmon tool, (configuring queues > select queue > modify > limits) But there is everything set to infinity. (Beside that, the job is running with a static machinefile (is this an "noninteractive" job?)) How could I test ulimits of interactive and noninteractive jobs? Thank you for your great help.