On 5 August 2008 at 17:01, Ben Payne wrote: | Hello. I am not sure if this is the correct list to ask this | question, so if you know of a more appropriate one please let me know. | | I think am looking for a LiveCD that supports MPI, specifically one | that has mpif90 built in, and can easily mount external (USB) drives | for storing data. | | I have access to 40 Windows computers in a lab that rarely gets used. | I would like to use the computers to run a cluster during the | weekends, but be able to not mess with the Windows installation that | exists on the hard drive. Because of this, I think a LiveCD would be | good, and one that supports PXE booting is even better. If there is a | better way to do this (run MPI, not disrupt Windows) please let me | know. | | The applications that I want to run are originally written in | Fortran90 and have been ported to MPI (by me) and compile with mpif90. | I have attempted to use ParallelKnoppix and PelicanHPC (see below) | and have spoken to the author of the distro, but he isn't explicitly | supporting mpif90. | | >From the list at | http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cluster_Live_CD | I have tried many distros. Below are the results of my attempts with | the LiveCDs: | | BCCD 2.2.1c7 [DHCP server, ssh "heartbeats"]: | http://bccd.cs.uni.edu/ | mpiexec "command not found" | mpirun -np 1 ./a.out : "cannot execute binary file" | mpif90: "no fortran 90 compiler specified when mpif90 was created" | gfortran: "command not found" | | PelicanHPC (Debian) [DHCP server, PXE boot]: | http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/ | mpirun works | mpiexec works | gfortran works | mpif90: "command not found" | | ParallelKnoppix 2.9 (Knoppix) [DHCP server, PXE boot]: | http://idea.uab.es/mcreel/ParallelKnoppix/ | mpirun -np 1 ./a.out : "cannot execute binary file | mpiexec -np 1 ./a.out : "cannot execute binary file", "mpirun | failed with exit status 252" | gfortran works | mpif90: "command not found" | ifort: "command not found" | lamexec -np 1 ./a.out : "cannot execute binary file | Note: mounting external drives is most intuitive in PK | | ClusterKnoppix: OpenMOSIX (no MPI) | http://clusterknoppix.sw.be/ | | CHAOS: OpenMOSIX (no MPI) | | Pai Pix: could not find on internet
You forgot Quantian, a large extension of clusterKnoppix and has OpenMOSIX as well as MPI and PVM -- but I haven't updated it in a long-ish while. I think I include LAM and MPICH, but I doubt it had f90. However, it so happens that I am currently updating it (in a smaller format) for a tutorial I am giving next week [1] and which covers MPI. So the live cdrom (based on current Debian testing, which will soon be the next release) will give you a working KDE environment, emacs, and current Open MPI from Debian which includes mpif77 and mpif90, plus a bunch of R goodies you may not care too much about. Interested? Ping me off-list. Dirk [1] http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008//tutorials/eddelbuettel.html | Thanks for your help, | | Ben | _______________________________________________ | users mailing list | us...@open-mpi.org | http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
