Re: Compiling and running NAMD on multiple nodes of SDSC Trestles

From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2012 - 16:22:21 CDT

This is an update. My problem was solved. It had to do with the access
permissions of the .ssh directory and not with NAMD itself.

Gianluca

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am trying to run NAMD 2.9 on multiple nodes of SDSC Trestles. It runs fine
> on all 32 cores of the same node. However, if more than 1 node is specified I
> get the error message:
>
> mpiexec_trestles-3-17.local: cannot connect to local mpd
> (/tmp/mpd2.console_gianluca); possible causes:
> 1. no mpd is running on this host
> 2. an mpd is running but was started without a "console" (-n option)
> In case 1, you can start an mpd on this host with:
> mpd &
> and you will be able to run jobs just on this host.
>
>
> I e-mailed the administrators for help and I got the following answer:
>
> "did you compile with the mvapich_ib mpi stack?"
>
> I tried then to compile charm++ with:
>
> ./build charm++ net-linux-x86_64 ibverbs iccstatic --mvapich_ib
> --no-build-shared --with-production
>
> But I get the warning messages:
>
> ./bin/charmc --mvapich_ib --no-build-shared --with-production -c -I.
> pipelinestrategy.C
> icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-fmvapich_ib'
> icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option
> '-fno-build-shared'
> icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option
> '-fwith-production'
>
> and I am still not able to run on multiple nodes.
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gianluca
>
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> Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
> +1 (206) 685 4435
> http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/
>
> Research Scientist at the Department of Bioengineering
> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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>
>

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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
                     +1 (206) 685 4435
                     http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/

Research Scientist at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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