From: romero@convex.hp.com (Paco Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: installing mpich on hp
Date: 19 Oct 1998 14:51:56 -0500
Organization: Hewlett Packard - High Performance Systems Division,
    Richardson, TX USA
Message-Id: <70g58s$j1e@gershwin.rsn.hp.com>
References: <01bdf958$ffce7280$23077b81@scottpc.usu.edu>


In article <01bdf958$ffce7280$23077b81@scottpc.usu.edu>,
scott <scott@cannon.cs.usu.edu> wrote:
>I've had a number of difficulties installing mpich on an hp network. Most
>have been either resolved or bypassed except the following: The make fails
>on one of the test linking tries. The effective command line used by mpicc
>is:
>
>gcc -L/usr/local/src/MPI/mpich/lib/hpux/ch_p4 -o overtake overtake.o test.o
>-lmpich -lfmpich -lV3
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>/bin/ld: unsatisfied symbols:
>	getpw_ss(code)
>
>This symbol isn't in any of the libraries in the above indicated directory
>and isn't in any of the system directories in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH search
>path. I know there is an old getpw() function in the Unix system, but no
>getpw_ss().
>
>Anybody else successfully installed mpich on an HP network?
>
>scott

Scott,
you might want to try using HP MPI.

HP MPI is the native implementation of MPI on HP-UX servers
and workstations.  It supports multi-protocol on clusters.
You can get an evaluation copy from http://www.hp.com/go/mpi

Regards,
P. Romero
Hewlett-Packard Co.