Alex Granovsky
gran@classic.chem.msu.su
>Permission denied, please try again.
>Permission denied, please try again.
>Permission denied (publickey,password).
these messages come from ssh that cannot log on to the remote node.
>p0_15919: p4_error: Child process exited while making connection to remote process on mercury01: 0
and this is from MPICH that fails to launch remote processes via ssh
So clearly you have ssh-related problems.
Check if you indeed can login from compute node to another
compute node using passwordless ssh.
regards,
Alex Granovsky