From: "Javier Fernández Baldomero" Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: Re: MPI and shared object libraries Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 12:51:58 +0200 Organization: Depto. Arquitectura y Tecnología Computadores Message-Id: <372ED14E.2050F406@atc.ugr.es> References: <372E0363.111C3DFA@itsa.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:5022 Hi, Karl, ----------------------------------------------------------------- DIAGNOSTICS mpirun: Exec format error A non-ASCII character was detected in the application schema. This is usually a command line usage error where mpirun is expecting an application schema and an executable file was given. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hope this was the problem. Easy to solve: indicate the number of copies or the nodes: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Application Schema or Executable Program? To distinguish the two different forms, mpirun looks on the command line for or the -c option. If neither is specified, then the file named on the command line is assumed to be an application schema. If either one or both are specified, then the file is assumed to be an exe- cutable program. If and -c both are specified, ---------------------------------------------------------------- regards -javier