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Mpichcluster: Setting Up An Mpich2 Cluster in Ubuntu

The document describes how to set up a simple MPICH cluster in Ubuntu using 4 nodes. It provides instructions for defining hostnames, installing NFS, sharing folders, mounting shared folders, defining a common user, installing SSH and other compilers, and installing and configuring MPICH2 to enable MPI programs to run across multiple nodes.

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Mpichcluster: Setting Up An Mpich2 Cluster in Ubuntu

The document describes how to set up a simple MPICH cluster in Ubuntu using 4 nodes. It provides instructions for defining hostnames, installing NFS, sharing folders, mounting shared folders, defining a common user, installing SSH and other compilers, and installing and configuring MPICH2 to enable MPI programs to run across multiple nodes.

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MpichCluster
Setting Up an MPICH2 Cluster in Ubuntu
Creator: Omid Alemi

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This guide describes how to building a simple MPICH cluster in ubuntu.

Before , you need an basic knowledge about mpich & clustering.

Here we have 4 nodes running ubuntu 7.04 with these host names: ub0,ub1,ub2,ub3;

1. Defining hostnames in etc/hosts/


Edit /etc/hosts like these:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.133.100 ub0
192.168.133.101 ub1
192.168.133.102 ub2
192.168.133.103 ub3
Note that the file shouldn't be like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 ub0
192.168.133.100 ub0
192.168.133.101 ub1
192.168.133.102 ub2
192.168.133.103 ub3

2. Installing NFS
To Install NFS just run this in terminal:

omid@ub0:~$ sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

3. Sharing Master Folder


Make a folder in all nodes, we'll store our data and programs in this folder.

omid@ub0:~$ sudo mkdir /mirror


And then we share it over nodes on the master node.

omid@ub0:~$ sudo echo /mirror *(rw,sync) >> /etc/exports


Note than we store out data and programs only in master node and other nodes will access them
with NFS.

4. Mounting /master in nodes


omid@ub1:~$sudo mount ub0:/mirror /mirror
omid@ub2:~$sudo mount ub0:/mirror /mirror
omid@ub3:~$sudo mount ub0:/mirror /mirror
it's better to change fstab in order to mount it on every boot.

5. Defining a user for running MPI programs


We define a user with same name and same userid in all nodes with a home directory in /mirror.

Here we name it "mpiu"! Also we change the owner of /mirror to mpiu:

omid@ub0:~$ sudo chown mpiu /mirror

6. Installing SSH Server


Run this command in all nodes in order to install OpenSSH Server

omid@ub0:~$ sudo apt-get install opensshserver


7. Setting up SSH with no pass phrase for
communication between nodes
First we login with our new user:

omid@ub0:~$ su - mpiu
Then we generate DSA key for mpiu:

mpiu@ub0:~$ ssh-keygen -t dsa


Leave passphrase empty.

Next we add this key to authorized keys:

mpiu@ub0:~$ cd .ssh
mpiu@ub0:~/.ssh$ cat id_pub.dsa >> authorized_keys
As the home directory of mpiu in all nodes is the same (/mirror/mpiu) , there is no need to run these
commands on all nodes.

To test SSH run:

mpiu@ub0:~$ ssh ub1 hostname


It should return remote hostname without asking for passphrase.

8. Installing GCC
Install build-essential package:

mpiu@ub0:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

9.Installing Other Compilers


Other prefered compilers should be installed before installing MPICH.

In this step we install other compilers such as Inter Fortran, SGI compiler , ... .

10. Installing MPICH2


Download MPICH2 source code from http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich .

Extract .tar.bz2 file in /mirror. Also make a folder for MPICH installation.

mpiu@ub3:/mirror$ mkidr mpich2


mpiu@ub3:/mirror$ tar xvf mpich2-1.0.5p3.tar.gz
mpiu@ub3:/mirror$ cd mpich2-1.0.5p3
mpiu@ub3:/mirror/mpich2-1.0.5p3$ ./configure --prefix=/mirror/mpich2
mpiu@ub3:/mirror/mpich2-1.0.5p3$ make
mpiu@ub3:/mirror/mpich2-1.0.5p3$ sudo make install
For more information about compilation see README file in source package.

After successfully compiling and installing mpich, add these lines to "/mirror/mpiu/.bashrc/"

export PATH=/mirror/mpich2/bin:$PATH
export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/mirror/mpich2/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Next we run this command in order to define MPICH installation path to SSH.

mpiu@ub0:~$ sudo echo /mirror/mpich2/bin >> /etc/environment


For testing our installation run:

mpiu@ub0:~$ which mpd


mpiu@ub0:~$ which mpiexec
mpiu@ub0:~$ which mpirun

11. setting up MPD


Create mpd.hosts in mpiu's home directory with nodes names:

ub3
ub2
ub1
ub0
and run :

mpiu@ub0:~$ echo secretword=something >> ~/.mpd.conf


mpiu@ub0:~$ chmod 600 .mpd.conf
To test MPD run above commands. The output should be the current hostname.

mpiu@ub0:~$ mpd &


mpiu@ub0:~$ mpdtrace
mpiu@ub0:~$ mpdallexit
After all run mpd daemon:

mpiu@ub0:~$ mpdboot -n 4
mpiu@ub0:~$ mpdtrace
The output should be name of all nodes.

There are some examples in "mpich2-1.0.5/examples", we'll run one :

mpiu@ub0:~$ mpiexec -np 4 cpi


That's it!

For more information visit:


http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/

MpichCluster (terakhir disunting 2008-08-06 16:31:26 oleh localhost)


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