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From: Tim Prins (tprins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-30 14:22:46


Hi Rob,

With Open MPI there is no concept of booting the cluster. You just do mpirun
and everything is done for you.

Hope this helps,

Tim

On Saturday 30 June 2007 12:10:09 pm Rob wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm thinking of migrating our small cluster from lam-6.5.9 to openmpi.
> Just downloaded and installed openmpi and it's fine on a Slackware 11 box.
> This is in as much as I can do mpicc and mpirun - no problem.
>
> But I have a bit of a dumb question so please bear with me. I've not
> found anywhere any details of booting the cluster. So my question is: Do
> I just lamboot in the normal way and openmpi effectively replaces mpirun,
> mpicc etc - or have I missed something entirely fundamental?
>
> Cheers
> Rob