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["Anglade Pierre-Matthieu" <anglade@gmail.com>]

Hi,
Sadly, I can not help here but :
Are you sure you reall want to use parallelization over the web ?
You must know that it might terribly slow down your computation. What
exaclty is the purpose of trying such a thing ?

regards

PMA

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:22 PM,  <jimprtlnd01@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am attempting to use ABINIT in parallel over the internet.
>
> Specifically, here's what I've set up:
>
> I am running:
>
> mpirun -np 4 -hostfile hosts.txt abinip < file.files > file.log
>
>
> My host file contains 3 items:
>
> jimscomputer.local slots =2
> jimscomputer@123.4.5.192 slots = 2
> jimscomputer@jimsothercomputer slots = 2
>
> I have established public/private key authentication between all computers, 
> and
> when I do:
>
> ssh jimscomputer@123.4.5.192
>
> it succeeds, no password required (because of public/private key
> authentication).
>
>
> If I use the first two lines of hosts.txt (both computers are local, 
> connected
> directly or through my router), it works, starting on 2 processes on each
> computer.
>
> If I use the first and third lines, it just hangs after I press Enter.  As 
> if
> it's waiting for something that never happens.
>
> Now to be clear, the remote computer is behind a router too, but is 
> forwarding
> port 22.  That is verified by ssh working directly.
>
> Please let me know what to do next, what I can check, what I can do to get 
> this
> running remotely.  Thanks!!!
>
> Jim
>



-- 
Pierre-Matthieu Anglade