From: Greg Burns <gdburns@cisco.com>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: odd LAM problem
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 07:49:22 -0800
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Norm Matloff wrote:
> 
> I'm running LAM on an Ethernet of Sun OS boxes, typically 4 or 8 nodes.
> I run the same SPMD program several times within a short period, one
> after the other, and typically after a few runs I get a message like
> 
>    mpirun: cannot start <program name> on n1: invalid address tag
> 
> What is happening here, and how can I fix it?
> 
> Norm Matloff

That is a wierd one.
I believe this error is generated when the command line arguments
you gave for your program to mpirun and/or your program itself if
you used the -s option, cannot be found in /tmp on the remote node
(where it is stored temporarily for execution on the remote node).

--
Greg