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From: Understudy (list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-13 22:13:24


The Lam User Guide http://www.lam-mpi.org/download/files/7.1.1-user.pdf
does not have a FAQ in the index . The FAQ for LAM
http://www.lam-mpi.org/faq/ has 12 sections to it. If you can share the
URLs specfic to my questions that would be fine.

Sincerely,
Brendhan

\
Jeff Squyres wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2a. Do I need to generate a public ssh key for the user?
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. How can I tell if lam7 is running on all the nodes?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Brendhan
>>
>>
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