Re: mpich shared memory supported?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu> cum veritate scripsit:

> I'm wondering wether shared memory for SMP is supported by Debian mpich. 
>  In the manual, it says that if you put, e.g.:
> localhost:2
> in /etc/mpich/machines.LINUX, and set some environment variable like 
> MPI_NUMBER_LOCAL_MACHINES to the number of CPUs, then it will use shared 
> memory instead of rsh for communication.
> 
> Is this supported in the Debian package?  I can't seem to get it to work.

I've got a vague recollection that it is possible with
chp4mpd, but not in chp4 (the version in Debian).


regards,
	junichi

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