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Miro Moman
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OpenMpi appears to be be more convenient:

http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2008-April/021197.html


On Tue Jun 22 '10 11:09am, Miro Moman wrote
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>For the Debian/Ubuntu users, the Debian way of doing this is:

>$sudo update-alternatives NAME

>where NAME in this case would be mpi and mpirun, respectively. Choosing mpirun.mpich2 applies to both mpirun and mpiexec.

>Then you are presented the alternatives and you can choose the one that better suits your needs.

>Apparently, the default is openmpi.

>Alternatively, you can stick to the defaults and use the openmpi version of Firefly. Anyone knows if there are significant performance differences between openmpi and mpich2?
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>On Mon Jun 21 '10 6:13pm, Jim Kress wrote
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>>You know, if you use MPI-SELECTOR, it automatically makes sure you are set-up to properly use the specific MPI tool you select.  You don't have to put yourself through all this nightmarish BS to get things to work.

>>It is unreal to me that so many people refuse to use such a simple tool that can resolve so many headaches ...
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