Greetings Brendhan.
All of your questions are answered in the LAM FAQ on the web site and
LAM/MPI User's Guide. Rather than repeat all that information here,
you should probably go read those documents -- they are full of all
kinds of good information.
On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Understudy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am building my first cluster. I am doing it just as an experiment to
> see if I can actually do it. I currently have 5 IBM 300pl machines. I
> have designated one as a master and 4 as slaves. I am running FreeBSD
> 5.3 on all the boxes. I just loaded the lam7 port on the master node
> with a make install clean. However I am beginning to think I jumped
> the gun. I have been reading the documentation on the lam website but
> I have to admit it is a bit intimidating to try to absorb all of that
> information in one fell swoop. So I am going to ask some silly
> questions.
> 1. With lam7 do I need to have NFS working between the nodes?
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> 2. I would like to use ssh and not rsh. However I have already dome a
> make install clean from the port for lam7. Do I need to rebuild it or
> can I tell it to use ssh?
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> 2a. Do I need to generate a public ssh key for the user?
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> 3. How can I tell if lam7 is running on all the nodes?
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> Sincerely,
> Brendhan
>
>
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