Lesson 12

Date: 4/16/2014
High Performance Computing (part I)
Linux for Engineering and IT applications


OpenMPI installation

  • Login to clmaster VM: 
    virsh console clmaster

  • On clmaster, download Open MPI source code openmpi-1.8.tar.gz and configure.sh
    Uncompress openmpi-1.8.tar.gz in your home directory on the desktop and compile it 
    wget http://linuxcourse.rutgers.edu/lessons/HPC_1/download/openmpi-1.8.tar.gz
wget http://linuxcourse.rutgers.edu/lessons/HPC_1/download/configure.sh
tar -zxvf openmpi-1.8.tar.gz
cp configure.sh openmpi-1.8
cd openmpi-1.8
chmod 755 configure.sh
apt-get install g++ libc6-dev make
./configure.sh
make 
make install


  • Add the following lines in the beginning of mpiuser's .bashrc file, /NFS/home/mpiuser/.bashrc: 
    export PATH=/usr/local/openmpi/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/openmpi/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH



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