There are several ways to do this.
Read about PARATYPE=2 in nm720.pdf
Or, instead of using psexec as the loader, use the native WINDOWS start
command. Here is an alternative fpiwini8.pnm using start:
$DEFAULTS
[nodes]=8
$GENERAL
NODES=[nodes] PARSE_TYPE=2 PARSE_NUM=34 TIMEOUTI=300 TIMEOUT=20000 PARAPRINT=0
TRANSFER_TYPE=0
$COMMANDS ;each node gets a command line, used to launch the node session
1:NONE
2-[nodes]:start /B /Dworker{#-1} nonmem.exe
$DIRECTORIES
1:NONE ; FIRST DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON DIRECTORY
2-[nodes]:worker{#-1} ; NEXT SET ARE THE WORKER directories
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Fisher Dennis
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 9:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NMusers] command prompt windows opening with -parafile option
Colleagues,
I have been configuring parallelization in NONMEM 7.2 on several Windows
machines for various colleagues. I have discovered an inconsistency that I
don't understand.
On one machine, when I start the process, 3 additional command prompt windows
open (nodes = 4) and the task manager shows the 4 NONMEM jobs; when the
estimation step completes, the windows close, then reopen during the covariance
step, then close again.
On the other machine, no additional windows open and the task manager also
shows the 4 NONMEM jobs. The setups are otherwise identical (gfortran) with
the same command (FPI, rather than MPI).
I don't know which is the expected behavior. I would prefer the setup without
the additional command prompt windows. Is there a configuration issue that I
can control? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Dennis
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