[bgoeppner]

Hi everybody,

I was trying to use OpenFOAM with openmpi, but got some problemes I cannot solve by myself...

That's the situation:

• I've got several computers connected by a server, all computers have installed openldap for user-authentification and mount centralized home-directories via nfs.
• OpenFOAM is installed in my home-directory like suggested in official installation tutorial.
• I can run openfoam-applications on each of those computers no matter if I log in via desktop or ssh, no problem here.The .bashrc seems to be set correctly therefore.
• I can run openfoam-applications via mpirun if I stay local (using multiple cores on one computer, without --hostfile or --host parameter) Openmpi seems to be installed correctly therefore.
• I can run openmpi on multiple computers, say mpirun -np 2 --host localhost,remotehost uptime.
• Running mpirun -np 2 --host localhost,remotehost echo $SHELL returns /bin/bash on all nodes.
• Running mpirun -np 2 --host localhost,remotehost echo $PATH returns the same path-environment for both computers.

But if I try to run an openfoam-application via mpirun on a remote computers, I'm getting an "executable not found" error... How can that be? The executable is found if I'm logging in interactivly, and path is set correct even if I log in via mpirun...

Any suggestion would be great, I'm really frustrated right now...


Thanks and have a nice Easter Weekend,
Ben

[ckroener]

Hi,

i think you need to export the necessary environment variables to the remote nodes:

The man pages of mpirun says:

-x <env> Export the specified environment variables to the remote
nodes before executing the program.

I do not know if it is necessary, but i need to specify the following environment variables:

mpirun -x PATH -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH -x WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR -x WM_PROJECT_DIR -x MPI_BUFFER_SIZE --host host1,host2 interFoam -parallel

ckroener