Just gave this a quick try, and xmvapich seems to run MPI apps compiled
with mpich2 without any issues.

$ xmvapich -a ./mpihello
blender: Hello World from process 0 of 1
eregion: Hello World from process 0 of 1

Hope that helps,

 -- Abhishek

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 17:02 +0200, Stefan Boresch wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply!
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:34:37AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:57 AM, stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > the state of xcpu support with MPI libraries -- either of the common
> > > free ones
> > > is fine (e.g., openmpi, mpich2)
> > >
> > 
> > there is now support for mpich2. openmpi is not supported as openmpi
> > is (once again) in flux. it has been supported numerous times and has
> > changed out from under us numerous times. I no longer use openmpi if I
> > have a working mvapich or mpich available.
> > 
> 
> I am slightly confused. I guess I had inferred the openmpi issues from
> the various mailing lists. But I just looked at the latest mpich2
> prerelease and found no mentioning of (s)xcpu(2). I thought that some
> patches/support on the side of the mpi library are necessary  (as, e.g.,
> openmpi provides for bproc ...)  Or am I completely misunderstanding
> something here, and this is somehow handled by xcpu itself ...
> I guess there is some difference between
> 
> xrx 192.168.19.2 /bin/date
> 
> and 
> 
> xrx 192.168.19.2 <pathto>/mpiexec ...
> 
> and the latter seems too magic to me to run out of the box (it sure
> would be nice though ...)
> 
> Sorry for making myself a nuisance -- thanks,
> 
> Stefan Boresch
> 
> 
> 

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