Thanks Gustavo, I have managed to get it working now.
The problem was indeed the difference between Ubuntu Packages, ( I assume
so.) and after figuring out the PATH mess it runs and communicates well.
Thank you so much for the help!
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Gustavo Correa <g...@ldeo.columbia.edu>wrote:
> Hi Brandon
>
> Yes, as others said and you figured, version is important,
> and installing from source is not hard, probably will save you more
> headaches than
> installing the packages (which normally vary with the Linux distro
> version).
>
> Regarding the environment variables.
> You need to set the PATH and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the newly
> installed-from-source OpenMPI bin and lib directories on *ALL* your home
> directories
> in ALL machines (assuming the home directory is not shared via NFS or
> similar,
> which I guess they aren't, based on what you said before).
>
> If you use csh/tcsh this means putting something like this in your
> .cshrc/.tcshrc file
> (not a visible file, a "dot" file, you need "ls -a" to see it, if absent
> just create it):
>
> setenv PATH /path/to/openmpi/bin:${PATH}
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /path/to/openmpi/lib
>
> If you use sh/bash the file is .bashrc or .profile and the style is like
> this:
>
> export PATH=/path/to/openmpi/bin:${PATH}
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH /path/to/openmpi/lib
>
> OpenMPI (I think, Jeff and others may correct me if I am wrong) ssh to each
> machine
> and gets your environment variables that are local to each machine. You
> need a
> mechanism (such as the above) to set the same environment across the
> machines,
> and to enable the OpenMPI stuff everywhere.
>
> I am not sure, but since you are using IP addresses, not host names,
> your /etc/hosts file may be OK.
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Gus Correa
>
> On Oct 23, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Brandon Fulcher wrote:
>
> > Hi, so yes I'm trying to install the source but after installing, it does
> not seem to be able to locate the libraries.
> >
> > mpirun gives the error
> > libopen-rte.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> >
> > Of course, I have seen this faq
> http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#adding-ompi-to-path
> >
> > But this is more than a little beyond me. The libraries seem to be
> installed in usr/lib, (at least, that's where it locates the library in
> question.) but I can't seem to get this to work by modifying
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or using the --prefix switch. Obviously I am doing
> something very wrong, never having bothered with editing paths before. (This
> is why I use packages.)
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Ashley Pittman <ash...@pittman.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 23 Oct 2010, at 17:58, Brandon Fulcher wrote:
> > > So I checked the OMPI package details on both machines, they each are
> running Open MPI 1.3. . . but then I noticed that the packages are different
> versions. Basically, the slave is running the previous Ubuntu release, and
> the master is running the current one. Both have the most recent packages
> for their release. . .but perhaps that is enough of a difference?
> >
> > You need to have exactly the same version of OpenMPI installed on both
> machines. Typically in a cluster all machines are identical in terms of
> software, if this isn't the case for your systems then the easiest way might
> be to compile open mpi from source (on the older of the two machines would
> be best) and to install it to a common directory on both machines.
> >
> > Ashley.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK.
> >
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> > http://padb.pittman.org.uk
> >
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