On Mar 22, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Syed Ahsan Ali <ahsansha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually due to some data base corruption I am not able to add any new node > to cluster from the installer node. So I want to run parallel job on more > nodes without adding them to existing cluster. > You are right the binaries must be present on the remote node as well. > Is this possible throught nfs? just as the compute nodes are nfs mounted with > the installer node. Sure - OMPI doesn't care how the binaries got there. Just so long as they are present on the compute node. > > Ahsan > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote: > Am 22.03.2013 um 10:14 schrieb Syed Ahsan Ali: > > > I have a very basic question. If we want to run mpirun job on two systems > > which are not part of cluster, then how we can make it possible. Can the > > host be specifiend on mpirun which is not compute node, rather a stand > > alone system. > > Sure, the machines can be specified as argument to `mpiexec`. But do you want > to run applications just between these two machines, or should they > participate on a larger parallel job with machines of the cluster: then a > direct network connection between outside and inside of the cluster is > necessary by some kind of forwarding in case these are separated networks. > > Also the paths to the started binaries may be different, in case the two > machines are not sharing the same /home with the cluster and this needs to be > honored. > > In case you are using a queuing system and want to route jobs to outside > machines of the set up cluster: it's necessary to negotiate with the admin to > allow jobs being scheduled thereto. > > -- Reuti > > > > Thanks > > Ahsan > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > > -- > Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari > Electronic Engineer (EE) > > Research & Development Division > Pakistan Meteorological Department H-8/4, Islamabad. > Phone # off +92518358714 > Cell # +923155145014 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
