Running Parallel Fluent on a network of two (or more) PCs

mariachi · April 16, 2014, 06:20

Hi to all !

Im trying to run FLUENT 14 on two (and later on more) PCs having win64 bit. I have installed all MPIs as well. When i launch it with the option "Distributed memory on a cluster", it gives the following messages as shown sequentially in these pictures. I ignore first two messages by pressing OK and YES.

Please advise in this regard,

mariachi · April 16, 2014, 06:23

p.s. the ping command gives positive reply of network connectivity between the two PCs...

(Apologies if the problem above has been addressed elsewhere, in which case please provide me with a link to that thread

)

ghost82 · April 16, 2014, 11:48

I don't know the answers to your problem but I would disable windows firewalls on both machines even if the ping command works and make sure you have fluent installed on both machine, in the same directory; make sure you set system variables correctly.
Let us know if and how you solve the problem as I think I will set up a second pc to connect to my workstation.

Read also here:
http://rravikumar.wordpress.com/2013...-distribution/

Daniele

mariachi · April 17, 2014, 04:14

I'm on it Daniele. Thanks for your time!

shk12345 · April 21, 2014, 10:26

actually i wond recommend doing that
the reason being if two pc are connected through lan then the resultant speed decreases becuase of the time data takes to transfer from one pc to another pc.

i have tried doing that several times but never succeeded.

thanks
shk

ghost82 · April 23, 2014, 12:45

See here:
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/flu...tml#post488458

mariachi · May 6, 2014, 09:56

FLUENT 15.0 now runs for me with the option of "Distributed memory on a cluster", following above tutorial:

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghost82

See here:
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/flu...tml#post488458

April 23, 2014, 12:45		#6
ghost82 Senior Member Rick Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,016 Rep Power: 26	See here: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/flu...tml#post488458 mariachi likes this. Last edited by ghost82; April 27, 2014 at 05:16.

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April 16, 2014, 06:23		#2
mariachi Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 54 Rep Power: 16	p.s. the ping command gives positive reply of network connectivity between the two PCs... (Apologies if the problem above has been addressed elsewhere, in which case please provide me with a link to that thread )

April 16, 2014, 11:48		#3
ghost82 Senior Member Rick Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,016 Rep Power: 26	I don't know the answers to your problem but I would disable windows firewalls on both machines even if the ping command works and make sure you have fluent installed on both machine, in the same directory; make sure you set system variables correctly. Let us know if and how you solve the problem as I think I will set up a second pc to connect to my workstation. Read also here: http://rravikumar.wordpress.com/2013...-distribution/ Daniele

April 17, 2014, 04:14		#4
mariachi Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 54 Rep Power: 16	I'm on it Daniele. Thanks for your time!

April 21, 2014, 10:26		#5
shk12345 Senior Member shoeb khan Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 179 Rep Power: 14	actually i wond recommend doing that the reason being if two pc are connected through lan then the resultant speed decreases becuase of the time data takes to transfer from one pc to another pc. i have tried doing that several times but never succeeded. thanks shk