Problem with parallel computing
 

Dear all,
I normally do my simulations in a cluster environment (Clunix). Each node is identified as hpc001, hpc002 etc and has 8 processors. For the last couple of days I have been trying to use two or more nodes parallely. I have followed this link: http://www.openfoam.org/docs/user/ru...s-parallel.php

But nothing seems to work.
I normally execute my command like this:
mpirun --hostfile machines -np 16 icoFoam -parallel

My machines file is like this:
hpc027
hpc028 cpu=8
Here is my decomposeParDict file:
*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 2.1.1 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
object decomposeParDict;
}

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

numberOfSubdomains 16;

method hierarchical;

hierarchicalCoeffs
{
n (1 1 16);
delta 0.001;
order xyz;
}


distributed yes;


roots

2

(

"/root/hpc027" // I have also tried like writing only "hpc027" "hpc028"
"/root/hpc028"

);


// ************************************************** *********************** //
Everytime I got the similar error message:
"number of entries in roots 2 is not equal to the number of slaves"
Could someone shed any light into it?
Thank you

I think that you should avoid using the distributed function in decomposeParDict, and go for a centralized storage for all your data that is accessible from all your nodes. Then you don't need the contents of "roots" either. Besides that, I think you should post your error messages and describe your problem a bit more clearly.