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Old 11-05-2010
How do I find the correct environment variables for MPI?

Hello all. I've been trying to install NWCHEM in parallel on a new cluster, and have been able to get it to work on single processors by ignoring any MPI environment variables.

This is, of course, pretty worthless. So I'm starting over and trying to get thing set up right for the MPI. The key variables are:
Code:
 USE_MPI="y"
MPI_LIB="/usr/lib64"
#  LIBMPI="/usr/lib64/OMPI/pgi/libmpi.so" ; export LIBMPI
MPI_INCLUDE="/usr/include"
USE_MPIF="y"

As far as I can tell, the MPI_INCLUDE is supposed to be the place where the mpi.h and/or mpif.h are which I think I have correctly. Also, the MPI_LIB is mean to have all of the libmpixxxxxetc, right? That leaves LIBMPI,which I THOUGH was supposed to be the location of the libmpi.so file, but when I set it that way and try to compile I get:
Code:
File with unknown suffix passed to linker: /usr/lib64/OMPI/pgi
/usr/lib64/OMPI/pgi: file not recognized: Is a directory
make: *** [all] Error 2

I get this error whether I include the "libmpi.so" part in the path or not. It appears that it's not finding what it needs in that folder, but then what is it that it's supposed to find?

Thanks for any help.

EMF

---------- Post updated 11-05-10 at 10:36 AM ---------- Previous update was 11-04-10 at 11:58 PM ----------

Sorry for the lack of proper code.

Is this in the correct forum? Is there a parallel forum that I'm missing?

Last edited by pludi; 11-05-2010 at 03:15 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
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Old 11-05-2010
The commented line looks like something the linker would be comfortable with. What did your environment LIBMPI look like?
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Old 11-05-2010
The commented line should not be commented. This is what my LIBMPI was set to. I tried it both with the .so file in the path and without and got the same error message.
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Old 11-05-2010
Maybe you have a permissions problem and the process running the linker cannot read the directory?
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Old 11-05-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Maybe you have a permissions problem and the process running the linker cannot read the directory?
How would I know if this is the case?
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Old 11-05-2010
You must look at the user ids of your processes and user ids and permissions of the directories.

It is the most basic of system admin tasks.
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Old 11-05-2010
To ensure the file is an appropriate type, use 'file', and to check permissions, 'ls -l' should show you have r and x in columns 8 and 10 (other).
 
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