I am stuck at work with a horrible piece of software that must use MPICH1.2 and I just cannot “get it” on what it needs to just work. I have a single machine - no network - I tried building it and using the YaST installed version. Whenever I try to use it only one processor is activated. I think I have a problem with setup of ssh. I don’t know. Can anyone please help me get this going? It’s been a horrible two days, and I don’t think MPICH1 is even supported any more.
Patricia :beat-up:
I am moving this post quoted below from the thread https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/network-internet/483663-please-im-suffering.html to a thread with a better title than " please, I’m suffering" .
I note the openSUSE packaged version of mpich is old, when one checks out the mpich website: MPICH | High-performance and Portable MPI
It may take me a few minutes to move the original post to this new thread. You will know when the post has been moved as it will appear in this new thread.
Thread ‘title’ change/move complete, and both web based and NNTP users are invited to respond to PattiMichelle’s help request.
As oldcpu notes, the pre-built packaged version is old.
It looks like the “unofficial” build on the mpich website is also old (year 2010). My guess is that you might have better luck building from source.
Those old builds are soooo old, if there are any dependencies I wonder how they are satisfied…
I’d also be curious about the nature of the application which requires this piece of software, after skimming the Overview it looks like today’s modern kernels will automatically address the needs mpich is supposed to provide, or can be easily modified, especially if you’re working with very few CPUs. And if you were dealing with larger numbers of CPUs, then most of the world today is using something like Hadoop.
TSU