Unfortunately, our Windows guy (Shiqing) is off getting married and will be out for a little while. :-(
All that I can cite is the README.WINDOWS.txt file in the top-level directory. I'm afraid that I don't know much else about Windows. :-( On May 18, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Jason Mackay wrote: > Hi all, > > My thanks to all those involved for putting together this Windows binary > release of OpenMPI! I am hoping to use it in a small Windows based OpenMPI > cluster at home. > > Unfortunately my experience so far has not exactly been trouble free. It > seems that, due to the fact that this release is using WMI, there are a > number of settings that must be configured on the machines in order to get > this to work. These settings are not documented in the distribution at all. I > have been experimenting with it for over a week on and off and as soon as I > solve one problem, another one arises. > > Currently, after much searching, reading, and tinkering with DCOM settings > etc..., I can remotely start processes on all my machines using mpirun but > those processes cannot access network shares (e.g. for binary distribution) > and HPL (which works on any one node) does not seem to work if I run it > across multiple nodes, also indicating a network issue (CPU sits at 100% in > all processes with no network traffic and never terminates). To eliminate > premission issues that may be caused by UAC I tried the same setup on two > domain machines using an administrative account to launch and the behavior > was the same. I have read that WMI processes cannot access network resources > and I am at a loss for a solution to this newest of problems. If anyone knows > how to make this work I would appreciate the help. I assume that someone has > gotten this working and has the answers. > > I have searched the mailing list archives and I found other users with > similar problems but no clear guidance on the threads. Some threads make > references to Microsoft KB articles but do not explicitly tell the user what > needs to be done, leaving each new user to rediscover the tricks on their > own. One thread made it appear that testing had only been done on Windows XP. > Needless to say, security has changed dramatically in Windows since XP! > > I would like to see OpenMPI for Windows be usable by a newcomer without all > of this pain. > > What would be fantastic would be: > 1) a step-by-step procedure for how to get OpenMPI 1.5 working on Windows > a) preferably in a bare Windows 7 workgroup environment with nothing > else (i.e. no Microsoft Cluster Compute Pack, no domain etc...) > 2) inclusion of these steps in the binary distribution > 3) bonus points for a script which accomplishes these things automatically > > If someone can help with (1), I would happily volunteer my time to work on > (3). > > Regards, > Jason > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
