Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: James Cownie <jcownie@dolphinics.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with mpich on DEC Alpha
Organization: Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:08:07 +0100
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Amit Margalit wrote:
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> I have been struggling in the past few days with getting mpich 1.1.0
> to run on our alpha machines here. What I am getting after a seemingly
> clean make, is this:
> 
> 1. When I try to run something with -np 1 - all is well.
> 2. When I run with -np 2 or more, I get an almost immediate
>    response 'Permission denied.' followed, after a long wait,
>    by 'Timeout in making connection to remote process on noline:0'.
> 
> The machine noline is the local node and the machines.alpha file
> is correctly set up. I am attaching a script'ed session of the make
> and attempts to run. All the information is included.
> 
> If anyone has hints, ideas what may be wrong, whatever, we'd be very
> glad to hear them. Many thanks,

It really sounds like the permissions for rsh are wrong. I'd use 
the tstmachines script in the mpich distribution to check what gives,
and 
try using rsh itself using the same machine names as you have in the
machines.alpha
file...

-- Jim 

James Cownie			<jcownie@dolphinics.com>
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