problems setting up mpiexec

Malcolm Tobias mtobias at wugrav.wustl.edu
Fri Jul 12 16:29:07 EDT 2002


On Friday 12 July 2002 03:20 pm, Ben Webb wrote:
> > I'm getting errors like:
> > mpiexec: Error: get_hosts: pbs_connect: No server specified.
> > when I run the runtests.  Any ideas?
>
>         Make sure you have a file called server_name in /usr/spool/PBS/
> (or wherever PBS is installed). This file needs to contain the name of
> the PBS server machine, so that mpiexec can connect to it.

Thanks for the suggestion, I think this is my problem.

When I installed pbs_mom on the compute nodes, I did it by running
PBS/buildutils/pbs_mkdirs which didn't create any server_file on
the compute nodes.  I can now run 'qstat' on the nodes.  

Thanks for the help!

Malcolm

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