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                        MPICH2 Release %VERSION%

MPICH2 is a high-performance and widely portable implementation of the
MPI-2.1 standard from the Argonne National Laboratory. This release
has all MPI 2.1 functions and features required by the standard with
the exception of support for the "external32" portable I/O format and
user-defined data representations for I/O.

The distribution has been tested by us on a variety of machines in our
own environments. If you have problems, please report them to
mpich2-maint@mcs.anl.gov.

This README file should contain enough information to get you started
with MPICH2. More extensive installation and user guides can be found
in the doc/installguide/install.pdf and doc/userguide/user.pdf files
respectively. Additional information regarding the contents of the
release can be found in the CHANGES file in the top-level directory,
and in the RELEASE_NOTES file, where certain restrictions are
detailed. Finally, the MPICH2 web site,
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2, contains information
on bug fixes and new releases.

  
I.    Getting Started
II.   Alternate Configure Options
III.  Compiler Flags
IV.   Alternate Channels and Devices
V.    Alternate Process Managers
VI.   VPATH Builds
VII.  Shared Libraries
VIII. Other Features
IX.   Developer Builds
X.    Building ROMIO into MPICH2
XI.   Testing the MPICH2 installation
XII.  Installing MPICH2 on windows


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I. Getting Started
==================

The following instructions take you through a sequence of steps to get
the default configuration (ch3 device, nemesis channel (with TCP and
shared memory), MPD process management) of MPICH2 up and running.

1.  You will need the following prerequisites.

    - This tar file mpich2-%VERSION%.tar.gz

    - A C compiler (gcc is sufficient)

    - A Fortran compiler if Fortran applications are to be used
      (g77 or gfortran is sufficient) 

    - A C++ compiler for the C++ MPI bindings (g++ is sufficient)

    - Python 2.2 or later (for the default MPD process manager)

    - If a Fortran 90 compiler is found, by default MPICH2 will
      attempt to build a basic MPI module.  This module contains the
      MPI routines that do not contain "choice" arguments; i.e., the module
      does not contain any of the communication routines, such as
      MPI_Send, that can take arguments of different type.  You may still
      use those routines, however, the MPI module does not contain
      interface specifications for them. If you have trouble with the
      configuration step and do not need Fortran 90, configure with
      --disable-f90 .

    Configure will check for these prerequisites and try to work around
    deficiencies if possible.  (If you don't have Fortran, you will
    still be able to use MPICH2, just not with Fortran applications.)

    Also, you need to know what shell you are using since different shell
    has different command syntax. Command "echo $SHELL" prints out the
    current shell used by your terminal program.

2.  Unpack the tar file and go to the top level directory:

      tar xzf mpich2-%VERSION%.tar.gz
      cd mpich2-%VERSION%

    If your tar doesn't accept the z option, use

      gunzip mpich2-%VERSION%.tar.gz
      tar xf mpich2-%VERSION%.tar
      cd mpich2-%VERSION%

3.  Choose an installation directory (the default is /usr/local/bin),
    /home/you/mpich2-install which is assumed to non-existent or empty.
    It will be most convenient if this directory is shared by all of the
    machines where you intend to run processes.  If not, you will have
    to duplicate it on the other machines after installation.

4.  Configure MPICH2 (The steps described here are called inpath-build,
    we recommend user to do vpath build if possible), specifying the
    installation directory:

    for csh and tcsh:

      ./configure --prefix=/home/you/mpich2-install |& tee c.txt

    for bash and sh:

      ./configure --prefix=/home/you/mpich2-install 2>&1 | tee c.txt

    Bourne-like shells, sh and bash, accept "2>&1 |".  Csh-like shell,
    csh and tcsh, accept "|&".  File c.txt is used to store all messages
    generated configure command and is useful for diagnosis if something
    goes wrong.  Other configure options are described below.  You might
    also prefer to do a VPATH build (see below).  Check the c.txt file
    to make sure everything went will.  Problems should be self-explanatory,
    but if not, sent c.txt to mpich2-maint@mcs.anl.gov.

5.  Build MPICH2:

    for csh and tcsh:

      make |& tee m.txt

    for bash and sh:

      make 2>&1 | tee m.txt

    This step should succeed if there were no problems with the
    preceding step.  Check file m.txt. If there were problems,
    do a "make clean" and then run make again with VERBOSE=1 
      make VERBOSE=1 |& tee m.txt       (for csh and tcsh)
      OR
      make VERBOSE=1 2>&1 | tee m.txt   (for bash and sh)
    and than send m.txt and c.txt to mpich2-maint@mcs.anl.gov.

6.  Install the MPICH2 commands:

    for csh and tcsh:

      make install |& tee mi.txt

    for bash and sh:

      make install 2>&1 | tee mi.txt

    This step collects all required executables and scripts in the bin
    subdirectory of the directory specified by the prefix argument to
    configure. 

    (For users who want an install directory structure compliant to
     GNU coding standards (i.e., documentation files go to 
     ${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}, architecture-independent
     read-only files go to ${datadir}/${PACKAGE}), replace
     "make install" by

       make install PACKAGE=mpich2-<versrion>

     and corresponding installcheck step should be

       make installcheck PACKAGE=mpich2-<version>

    Setting PACKAGE in "make install" or "installcheck" step is optional
    and unnecessary for typical MPI users.)

7.  Add the bin subdirectory of the installation directory to your path:

    for csh and tcsh:

      setenv PATH /home/you/mpich2-install/bin:$PATH

    for bash and sh:
  
      PATH=/home/you/mpich2-install/bin:$PATH ; export PATH

    Check that everything is in order at this point by doing 

      which mpd
      which mpiexec
      which mpirun

    All should refer to the commands in the bin subdirectory of your
    install directory.  It is at this point that you will need to
    duplicate this directory on your other machines if it is not
    in a shared file system such as NFS.

8.  MPICH2 uses an external process manager for scalable startup of
    large MPI jobs.  The default process manager is called MPD, which
    is a ring of daemons on the machines where you will run your MPI
    programs.  In the next few steps, you will get his ring up and
    tested.  More details on interacting with MPD can be found in the
    README file in mpich2-%VERSION%/src/pm/mpd, such as how to list
    running jobs, kill, suspend, or otherwise signal them, and how to
    debug programs with "mpiexec -gdb".

    If you have problems getting the MPD ring established, see the
    Installation Guide for instructions on how to diagnose problems
    with your system configuration that may be preventing it.  Also
    see that guide if you plan to run MPD as root on behalf of users.
    Please be aware that we do not recommend running MPD as root until
    you have done testing to make sure that all is well.

    Begin by placing in your home directory a file named .mpd.conf
    (/etc/mpd.conf if root), containing the line 

      secretword=<secretword>

    where <secretword> is a string known only to yourself.  It should
    NOT be your normal Unix password.  Make this file readable and
    writable only by you:

      chmod 600 .mpd.conf

9.  The first sanity check consists of bringing up a ring of one mpd on
    the local machine, testing one mpd command, and bringing the "ring"
    down. 

      mpd &
      mpdtrace
      mpdallexit

    The output of mpdtrace should be the hostname of the machine you are
    running on.  The mpdallexit causes the mpd daemon to exit.
    If you have problems getting the mpd ring established, see the
    Installation Guide for instructions on how to diagnose problems
    with your system configuration that may be preventing it.

10. Now we will bring up a ring of mpd's on a set of machines.  Create a
    file consisting of a list of machine names, one per line.  Name this
    file mpd.hosts.  These hostnames will be used as targets for ssh or
    rsh, so include full domain names if necessary.  Check that you can
    reach these machines with ssh or rsh without entering a password.
    You can test by doing

      ssh othermachine date

    or

      rsh othermachine date

    If you cannot get this to work without entering a password, you will
    need to configure ssh or rsh so that this can be done, or else use
    the workaround for mpdboot in the next step.

11. Start the daemons on (some of) the hosts in the file mpd.hosts

      mpdboot -n <number to start>  

    The number to start can be less than 1 + number of hosts in the
    file, but cannot be greater than 1 + the number of hosts in the
    file.  One mpd is always started on the machine where mpdboot is
    run, and is counted in the number to start, whether or not it occurs
    in the file.

    There is a workaround if you cannot get mpdboot to work because of
    difficulties with ssh or rsh setup.  You can start the daemons "by
    hand" as follows:

       mpd &                # starts the local daemon
       mpdtrace -l          # makes the local daemon print its host
                            # and port in the form <host>_<port>

    Then log into each of the other machines, put the install/bin
    directory in your path, and do:

       mpd -h <hostname> -p <port> &

    where the hostname and port belong to the original mpd that you
    started.  From each machine, after starting the mpd, you can do 

       mpdtrace

    to see which machines are in the ring so far.  More details on
    mpdboot and other options for starting the mpd's are in
    mpich2-%VERSION%/src/pm/mpd/README.

 !! ***************************
    If you are still having problems getting the mpd ring established,
    you can use the mpdcheck utility as described in the Installation Guide 
    to diagnose problems with your system configuration.
 !! ***************************

12. Test the ring you have just created:

      mpdtrace

    The output should consist of the hosts where MPD daemons are now
    running.  You can see how long it takes a message to circle this
    ring with 

      mpdringtest

    That was quick.  You can see how long it takes a message to go
    around many times by giving mpdringtest an argument:

      mpdringtest 100
      mpdringtest 1000

13. Test that the ring can run a multiprocess job:

      mpiexec -n <number> hostname

    The number of processes need not match the number of hosts in the
    ring;  if there are more, they will wrap around.  You can see the
    effect of this by getting rank labels on the stdout:

      mpiexec -l -n 30 hostname

    You probably didn't have to give the full pathname of the hostname
    command because it is in your path.  If not, use the full pathname:

      mpiexec -l -n 30 /bin/hostname

14. Now we will run an MPI job, using the mpiexec command as specified
    in the MPI-2 standard.  There are some examples in the install
    directory, which you have already put in your path, as well as in
    the directory mpich2-%VERSION%/examples.  One of them is the classic
    cpi example, which computes the value of pi by numerical
    integration in parallel.

      mpiexec -n 5 cpi

    The number of processes need not match the number of hosts.
    The cpi example will tell you which hosts it is running on.
    By default, the processes are launched one after the other on the hosts
    in the mpd ring, so it is not necessary to specify hosts when running a
    job with mpiexec.

    There are many options for mpiexec, by which multiple executables
    can be run, hosts can be specified (as long as they are in the mpd
    ring), separate command-line arguments and environment variables can
    be passed to different processes, and working directories and search
    paths for executables can be specified.  Do

      mpiexec --help

    for details. A typical example is:

      mpiexec -n 1 master : -n 19 slave

    or

      mpiexec -n 1 -host mymachine : -n 19 slave

    to ensure that the process with rank 0 runs on your workstation.

    The arguments between ':'s in this syntax are called "argument
    sets", since they apply to a set of processes.  Some arguments,
    called "global", apply across all argument sets and must appear
    first.  For example, to get rank labels on standard output, use

      mpiexec -l -n 3 cpi

    See the User's Guide for much more detail on arguments to mpiexec.

    The mpirun command from the original MPICH is still available,
    although it does not support as many options as mpiexec.

If you have completed all of the above steps, you have successfully
installed MPICH2 and run an MPI example.  

More details on arguments to mpiexec are given in the User's Guide in
the doc subdirectory.  Also in the User's Guide you will find help on
debugging.  MPICH2 has some some support for the TotalView debugger, as
well as some other approaches described there.

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II. Alternate Configure Options
===============================

The above steps utilized the MPICH2 defaults, which included choosing
TCP and shared memory for communication (via the "nemesis" channel)
and the MPD process manager.  Other alternatives are available.  You
can find out about configuration alternatives with

   ./configure --help

in the mpich2 directory.  The alternatives described below are
configured by adding arguments to the configure step.

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III. Compiler Flags
===================

MPICH2 allows several sets of compiler flags to be used. The first
three sets are configure-time options for MPICH2, while the fourth is
only relevant when compiling applications with mpicc and friends.

1. CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, FFLAGS, F90FLAGS and LDFLAGS (abbreviated as
xFLAGS): Setting these flags would result in the MPICH2 library being
compiled/linked with these flags and the flags internally being used
in mpicc and friends.

2. MPICH2LIB_CFLAGS, MPICH2LIB_CXXFLAGS, MPICH2LIB_FFLAGS,
MPICH2LIB_F90FLAGS and MPICH2LIB_LDFLAGS (abbreviated as
MPICH2LIB_xFLAGS): Setting these flags would result in the MPICH2
library being compiled/linked with these flags. However, these flags
will *not* be used by mpicc and friends.

3. MPICH2_MAKE_CFLAGS: Setting these flags would result in MPICH2's
configure tests to not use these flags, but the makefile's to use
them. This is a temporary hack for certain cases that advanced
developers might be interested in which break existing configure tests
(e.g., -Werror) and are not recommended for regular users.

4. MPICH2_MPICC_FLAGS, MPICH2_MPICXX_FLAGS, MPICH2_MPIF77_FLAGS,
MPICH2_MPIF90_FLAGS and MPICH2_LDFLAGS (abbreviated as
MPICH2_MPIX_FLAGS): These flags do *not* affect the compilation of the
MPICH2 library itself, but will be internally used by mpicc and
friends.


  +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
  |                    |                      |                        |
  |                    |    MPICH2 library    |    mpicc and friends   |
  |                    |                      |                        |
  +--------------------+----------------------+------------------------+
  |                    |                      |                        |
  |     xFLAGS         |         Yes          |           Yes          |
  |                    |                      |                        |
  +--------------------+----------------------+------------------------+
  |                    |                      |                        |
  |  MPICH2LIB_xFLAGS  |         Yes          |           No           |
  |                    |                      |                        |
  +--------------------+----------------------+------------------------+
  |                    |                      |                        |
  | MPICH2_MAKE_xFLAGS |         Yes          |           No           |
  |                    |                      |                        |
  +--------------------+----------------------+------------------------+
  |                    |                      |                        |
  | MPICH2_MPIX_FLAGS  |         No           |           Yes          |
  |                    |                      |                        |
  +--------------------+----------------------+------------------------+


All these flags can be set as part of configure command or through
environment variables. (CPPFLAGS stands for C preprocessor flags,
which should NOT be set)


Default flags
--------------
By default, MPICH2 automatically adds certain compiler optimizations
to MPICH2LIB_CFLAGS. The currently used optimization level is -O2.

** IMPORTANT NOTE: Remember that this only affects the compilation of
the MPICH2 library and is not used in the wrappers (mpicc and friends)
that are used to compile your applications or other libraries.

This optimization level can be changed with the --enable-fast option
passed to configure. For example, to build an MPICH2 environment with
-O3 for all language bindings, one can simply do:

  ./configure --enable-fast=O3

Or to disable all compiler optimizations, one can do:

  ./configure --disable-fast

For more details of --enable-fast, see the output of "configure
--help".


Examples
--------

Example 1:

  ./configure --disable-fast MPICH2LIB_CFLAGS=-O3 MPICH2LIB_FFLAGS=-O3 MPICH2LIB_CXXFLAGS=-O3 MPICH2LIB_F90FLAGS=-O3

This will cause the MPICH2 libraries to be built with -O3, and -O3
will *not* be included in the mpicc and other MPI wrapper script.

Example 2:

  ./configure --disable-fast CFLAGS=-O3 FFLAGS=-O3 CXXFLAGS=-O3 F90FLAGS=-O3

This will cause the MPICH2 libraries to be built with -O3, and -O3
will be included in the mpicc and other MPI wrapper script.

Example 3:

There are certain compiler flags that should not be used with MPICH2's
configure, e.g. gcc's -Werror, which would confuse configure and cause
certain configure tests to fail to detect the correct system features.
To use -Werror in building MPICH2 libraries, you can pass the compiler
flags during the make step through the Makefile variable
MPICH2_MAKE_CFLAGS as follows:

  make MPICH2_MAKE_CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror"

The content of MPICH2_MAKE_CFLAGS is appended to the CFLAGS in all
relevant Makefiles.

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IV. Alternate Channels and Devices
==================================

The communication mechanisms in MPICH2 are called "devices". MPICH2
supports several internal devices including ch3 (default), dcmfd (for
Blue Gene/P) and globus (for Globus), as well as many third-party
devices that are released and maintained by other institutes such as
osu_ch3 (from Ohio State University for InfiniBand and iWARP), ch_mx
(from Myricom for Myrinet MX), etc.

                   *************************************

ch3 device
**********
The ch3 device contains different internal communication options
called "channels". We currently support nemesis (default), sock, ssm,
and shm channels, and experimentally provide a dllchan channel within
the ch3 device.

nemesis channel
---------------
Nemesis provides communication using different networks (tcp, mx) as
well as various shared-memory optimizations. To configure MPICH2 with
nemesis, you can use the following configure option:

  --with-device=ch3:nemesis

The TCP network module gets configured in by default. To specify a
different network module such as MX, you can use:

  --with-device=ch3:nemesis:mx

If the MX include files and libraries are not in the normal search
paths, you can specify them with the following options:

  --with-mx-include= and --with-mx-lib=

... or the if lib/ and include/ are in the same directory, you can use
the following option:

  --with-mx=

If the MX libraries are shared libraries, they need to be in the
shared library search path. This can be done by adding the path to
/etc/ld.so.conf, or by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable in your
.bashrc (or .tcshrc) file.  It's also possible to set the shared
library search path in the binary. If you're using gcc, you can do this by adding

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/lib

  (and)

  LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath -Wl,/path/to/lib"

... as arguments to configure.


Shared-memory optimizations are enabled by default to improve
performance for multi-processor/multi-core platforms. They can be
disabled (at the cost of performance) either by setting the
environment variable MPICH_NO_LOCAL to 1, or using the following
configure option:

  --enable-nemesis-dbg-nolocal

The --with-shared-memory= configure option allows you to choose how
Nemesis allocates shared memory.  The options are "auto", "sysv", and
"mmap".  Using "sysv" will allocate shared memory using the System V
shmget(), shmat(), etc. functions.  Using "mmap" will allocate shared
memory by creating a file (in /dev/shm if it exists, otherwise /tmp),
then mmap() the file.  The default is "auto". Note that System V
shared memory has limits on the size of shared memory segments so
using this for Nemesis may limit the number of processes that can be
started on a single node.


sock channel
------------
sock is the traditional TCP sockets based communication channel. It
uses TCP/IP sockets for all communication including intra-node
communication. So, though the performance of this channel is worse
than that of nemesis, it should work on almost every platform. This
channel can be configured using the following option:

  --with-device=ch3:sock

ssm and shm channels
--------------------
shm (shared memory) channel is for use on platforms that only use
shared-memory communication. ssm (sockets and shared memory) is for
use on clusters of shared-memory machines. They can be configured
using:

  --with-device=ch3:ssm

  (or)

  --with-device=ch3:shm

These two channels are being deprecated and will be removed starting
the 1.2 release series of MPICH2. The nemesis channel provides all the
functionality supported by these channels and more.

dllchan
-------

dllchan is a new *experimental* channel for supporting dynamic loading
of other channels. To use this channel, configure with:

  --with-device=ch3:dllchan:sock,shm,ssm

This provides the sock, shm, and ssm channels as options, with sock
being the default. In addition, you must specify the shared library
type; under Linux and when using gcc (or compilers that mimic gcc for
shared-library construction) add:

  --enable-sharedlibs=gcc

On Mac OSX, use:

  --enable-sharedlibs=gcc-osx

On Solaris, use:

  --enable-sharedlibs=solaris-cc

To select a channel other than the default channel, set the
environment variable MPICH_CH3CHANNEL to the channel name (i.e., sock,
shm, or ssm).

There are known problems with this channel, particularly during the
make step. You may find that some symbols are not found when loading
the libraries. If you want to try this experimental channel, please
let us know what does and does not work.

sctp channel
------------
The SCTP channel is a new channel using the Stream Control
Transmission Protocol (SCTP). This channel supports regular MPI-1
operations as well as dynamic processes and RMA from MPI-2; it
currently does not offer support for multiple threads.

Configure the sctp channel by using the following option:

  --with-device=ch3:sctp

If the SCTP include files and libraries are not in the normal search
paths, you can specify them with the --with-sctp-include= and
--with-sctp-lib= options, or the --with-sctp= option if lib/ and
include/ are in the same directory.

SCTP stack specific instructions:

  For FreeBSD 7 and onward, SCTP comes with CURRENT and is enabled with
  the "option SCTP" in the kernel configuration file.  The sctp_xxx()
  calls are contained within libc so to compile ch3:sctp, make a soft-link
  named libsctp.a to the target libc.a, then pass the path of the 
  libsctp.a soft-link to --with-sctp-lib.
  
  For FreeBSD 6.x, kernel patches and instructions can be downloaded at
  http://www.sctp.org/download.html .  These kernels place libsctp and
  headers in /usr, so nothing needs to be specified for --with-sctp
  since /usr is often in the default search path.

  For Mac OS X, the SCTP Network Kernel Extension (NKE) can be
  downloaded at http://sctp.fh-muenster.de/sctp-nke.html .  This places
  the lib and include in /usr, so nothing needs to be specified for
  --with-sctp since /usr is often in the default search path.

  For Linux, SCTP comes with the default kernel from 2.4.23 and later as
  a module.  This module can be loaded as root using "modprobe sctp".
  After this is loaded,  you can verify it is loaded using "lsmod".
  Once loaded, the SCTP socket lib and include files must be downloaded
  and installed from http://lksctp.sourceforge.net/ .  The prefix 
  location must then be passed into --with-sctp.  This bundle is called 
  lksctp-tools and is available for download off their website.

  For Solaris, SCTP comes with the default Solaris 10 kernel; the lib
  and include in /usr, so nothing needs to be specified for --with-sctp
  since /usr is often in the default search path.  In order to compile
  under Solaris, MPICH2LIB_CFLAGS must have
  -DMPICH_SCTP_CONCATENATES_IOVS set when running MPICH2's configure
  script.

                   *************************************

IBM Blue Gene/P device
**********************
MPICH2 also supports the IBM Blue Gene/P systems. Since BG/P's
front-end uses a different architecture than the actual compute nodes,
MPICH2 has to be cross-compiled for this platform. The configuration
of MPICH2 on BG/P relies on the availability of the DCMF driver stack
and cross compiler binaries on the system. These are packaged by IBM
in their driver releases (default installation path is
/bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor) and are not released with MPICH2.

Assuming DRIVER_PATH points to the driver installation path (e.g.,
/bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor), the following is an example configure
command-line for MPICH2:

  GCC=${DRIVER_PATH}/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc-bgp-linux-gcc \
  CC=${DRIVER_PATH}/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc-bgp-linux-gcc \
  CXX=${DRIVER_PATH}/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc-bgp-linux-g++ \
  F77=${DRIVER_PATH}/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc-bgp-linux-gfortran \
  F90=${DRIVER_PATH}/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc-bgp-linux-gfortran \
  CFLAGS="-mcpu=450fp2" \
  CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=450fp2" \
  FFLAGS="-mcpu=450fp2" \
  F90FLAGS="-mcpu=450fp2" \
  AR=${DRIVER_PATH}/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc-bgp-linux-ar \
  LD=${DRIVER_PATH}/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc-bgp-linux-ld \
  MSGLAYER_INCLUDE="-I${DRIVER_PATH}/comm/include" \
  MSGLAYER_LIB="-L${DRIVER_PATH}/comm/lib -ldcmfcoll.cnk -ldcmf.cnk -lpthread -lrt -L$DRIVER_PATH/runtime/SPI -lSPI.cna" \
  ./configure --with-device=dcmfd:BGP --with-pmi=no --with-pm=no --with-file-system=bgl \
              --enable-timer-type=device --with-cross=src/mpid/dcmfd/cross \
              --host=powerpc-bgp-linux --target=powerpc-bgp-linux --build=powerpc64-linux-gnu

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V. Alternate Process Managers
=============================

mpd
---
MPD is the default process manager.  Its setup and use have been
described above.  The file mpich2-%VERSION%/src/pm/mpd/README has more 
information about interactive commands for managing the ring of MPDs.

hydra
-----
Hydra is a new process management framework that uses existing daemons
on nodes (e.g., ssh, pbs, slurm, sge) to start MPI processes. The file
mpich2-%VERSION%/src/pm/hydra/README has mode information about Hydra.

smpd
---- 
SMPD is a process management system for both Microsoft Windows and UNIX.
SMPD is capable of starting a job where some processes are running on
Windows and others are running on a variant of UNIX.  For more
information, please see mpich2-%VERSION%/src/pm/smpd/README.

gforker
-------
gforker is a process manager that creates processes on a single machine,
by having mpiexec directly fork and exec them.  This mechanism is
particularly appropriate for shared-memory multiprocessors (SMPs) where
you want to create all the processes on the same machine.  gforker is
also useful for debugging, where running all the processes on a single
machine is often convenient.

slurm
-----
SLURM is an external process manager not distributed with
MPICH2. However, we provide configure options that allow integration
with SLURM. To enable this support, use "--with-pmi=slurm
--with-pm=no" option with configure.

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VI. VPATH Builds
================
MPICH2 supports building MPICH in a different directory tree than the
one where the MPICH2 source is installed. This often allows faster
building, as the sources can be placed in a shared filesystem and the
builds done in a local (and hence usually much faster) filesystem.  To
make this clear, the following example assumes that the sources are
placed in /home/me/mpich2-<VERSION>, the build is done in
/tmp/me/mpich2, and the installed version goes into
/usr/local/mpich2-<VERSION>:

  shell$ cd /home/me
  shell$ tar xzf mpich2-<VERSION>.tar.gz
  shell$ cd /tmp/me

  shell$ mkdir mpich2
  shell$ cd mpich2
  shell$ /home/me/mpich2-<VERSION>/configure --prefix=/usr/local/mpich2-<VERSION>
  shell$ make
  shell$ make install

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VII. Shared Libraries
=====================
Shared libraries are currently only supported for gcc on Linux and Mac
and for cc on Solaris. To have shared libraries created when MPICH2 is
built, specify the following when MPICH2 is configured:

    configure --enable-sharedlibs=gcc         (on Linux)
    configure --enable-sharedlibs=osx-gcc     (on Mac OS X)
    configure --enable-sharedlibs=solaris-cc  (on Solaris)

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VIII. Other Features
====================

MPICH2 has a number of other features. If you are exploring MPICH2 as
part of a development project the following configure options are
important:

Performance Options:

 --enable-fast - Turns off error checking and collection of internal
                 timing information

 --enable-timing=no - Turns off just the collection of internal timing
                 information

 --enable-ndebug - Turns on NDEBUG, which disables asserts. This is a
                subset of the optimizations provided by enable-fast,
                but is useful in environments where the user wishes
                to retain the debug symbols, e.g., this can be combined
                with the --enable-g option.

MPI Features:

  --enable-romio - Build the ROMIO implementation of MPI-IO.  This is
                 the default

  --with-file-system - When used with --enable-romio, specifies
                 filesystems ROMIO should support.  See README.romio.

  --enable-threads - Build MPICH2 with support for multi-threaded
                 applications. Only the sock and nemesis channels support
                 MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE. 

  --with-thread-package - When used with --enable-threads, this option
                 specifies the thread package to use.  This option
                 defaults to "posix".  At the moment, only POSIX
                 threads are supported on UNIX platforms.  We plan to
                 support Solaris threads in the future.

Language bindings:

  --enable-f77 - Build the Fortran 77 bindings.  This is the default.
                 It has been tested with the Fortran parts of the Intel
                 test suite.

  --enable-f90 - Build the Fortran 90 bindings.  This is not on by
                 default, since these have not yet been tested.

  --enable-cxx - Build the C++ bindings.  This has been tested with the
                 Notre Dame C++ test suite and some additional tests.

Cross compilation:

  --with-cross=filename - Provide values for the tests that required
                 running a program, such as the tests that configure
                 uses to determine the sizes of the basic types.  This
                 should be a fine in Bourne shell format containing
                 variable assignment of the form

                     CROSS_SIZEOF_INT=2

                 for all of the CROSS_xxx variables.  A list will be
                 provided in later releases; for now, look at the
                 configure.in files.  This has not been completely
                 tested.

Error checking and reporting:

  --enable-error-checking=level - Control the amount of error checking.
                 Currently, only "no" and "all" is supported; all is the
                 default.

  --enable-error-messages=level - Control the aount of detail in error
                 messages.  By default, MPICH2 provides
                 instance-specific error messages; but, with this
                 option, MPICH2 can be configured to provide less
                 detailed messages.  This may be desirable on small
                 systems, such as clusters built from game consoles or
                 high-density massively parallel systems.  This is still
                 under active development.

Compilation options for development:

  --enable-g=value - Controls the amount of debugging information
                 collected by the code.  The most useful choice here is
                 dbg, which compiles with -g.

  --enable-coverage - An experimental option that enables GNU coverage
                 analysis.

  --with-logging=name - Select a logging library for recording the
                 timings of the internal routines.  We have used this to
                 understand the performance of the internals of MPICH2.
                 More information on the logging options, capabilities
                 and usage can be found in doc/logging/logging.pdf.

  --enable-timer-type=name -  Select the timer to use for MPI_Wtime
                 and internal timestamps.  name may be one of:
                     gethrtime        - Solaris timer (Solaris systems
                                        only) 
                     clock_gettime    - Posix timer (where available)
                     gettimeofday     - Most Unix systems
                     linux86_cycle    - Linux x86; returns cycle
                                        counts, not time in seconds*
                     linuxalpha_cycle - Like linux86_cycle, but for
                                        Linux Alpha* 
                     gcc_ia64_cycle   - IPF ar.itc timer*
                     device           - The timer is provided by the device
                 *Note that the cycle timers are intended to be used by
                  MPICH2 developers for internal low-level timing.
                  Normal users should not use these as they are not
                  guaranteed to be accurate in certain situations.

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IX. Developer Builds
====================
For MPICH2 developers who want to directly work on the svn, there are
a few additional steps involved (people using the release tarballs do
not have to follow these steps). Details about these steps can be
found here:
http://wiki.mcs.anl.gov/mpich2/index.php/Getting_And_Building_MPICH2

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X. Building ROMIO into MPICH2
=============================
By default, ROMIO, an implementation of the I/O portion of MPI-2 will
be built as a part of MPICH2. The file systems to be built can be
speicified by passing them in a '+'-delimited list to the
--with-file-system configure option. For example:

  --with-file-system="pvfs+nfs+ufs"

If you have installed version 2 of the PVFS file system, you can use
the '--with-pvfs2=<prefix>' configure option to specify where
libraries, headers, and utilities have been installed. If you have
added the pvfs utilities to your PATH, then ROMIO will detect this and
build support for PVFS automatically.

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XI. Testing the MPICH2 installation
===================================
To test MPICH2, use the following options after installing mpich2.
These will assume that mpich2 is installed into /usr/local/mpich2.

1. MPICH2 test suite:

   shell$ make testing

The results summary will be placed in test/summary.xml 

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XII. Installing MPICH2 on Windows
=================================

Here are the instructions for setting up MPICH2 on a Windows machine:

0) Install:
    Microsoft Developer Studio 2003 or later
    Intel Fortran 8.0 or later
    cygwin
        choose the dos file format option
        install perl and cvs

1) Checkout mpich2:

    Bring up a command prompt.
    (replace "yourname" with your MCS login name):
    svn co https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/mpi/mpich2/trunk mpich2

2) Generate *.h.in

    Bring up a cygwin bash shell.
    cd mpich2
    maint/updatefiles
    exit

3) Execute winconfigure.wsf

4) Open Developer Studio

    open mpich2\mpich2.sln
    build the ch3sockDebug mpich2 solution
    build the ch3sockDebug mpich2s project
    build the ch3sockRelease mpich2 solution
    build the ch3sockRelease mpich2s project
    build the Debug mpich2 solution
    build the Release mpich2 solution
    build the fortDebug mpich2 solution
    build the fortRelease mpich2 solution
    build the gfortDebug mpich2 solution
    build the gfortRelease mpich2 solution
    build the sfortDebug mpich2 solution
    build the sfortRelease mpich2 solution

5) Open a command prompt

    cd to mpich2\maint
    execute "makegcclibs.bat"

6) Open another Developer Studio instance

    open mpich2\examples\examples.sln
    build the Release target of the cpi project

7) Return to Developer Studio with the mpich2 solution

    set the version numbers in the Installer project
    build the Installer mpich2 solution

8) Test and distribute mpich2\maint\ReleaseMSI\mpich2.msi

    mpich2.msi can be renamed, eg mpich2-1.1.msi

9) To install the launcher:

    Copy smpd.exe to a local directory on all the nodes.
    Log on to each node as an administrator and execute "smpd.exe -install"

10) Compile and run an MPI application:

    Compile an mpi application.  Use mpi.h from mpich2\src\include\win32 and mpi.lib in mpich2\lib
    Place your executable along with the mpich2 dlls somewhere accessable to all the machines.
    Execute a job by running something like: mpiexec -n 3 myapp.exe