Some MPI guidelines
In order to run the parallel version of PUMA you need access to an MPI Grid. MPI Grids are very common, but if you don't know any, you can setup one using your own computers. This webpage will give you a few guidelines for setting up your own MPI Grid.
The instructions given here are directed to Linux users, inspite that, Windows and MacOS implementations are very similar to configure and use.
Consider the following scenario:
We want to setup a grid with four nodes, each node corresponding to one avaliable processor.
To startup a grid do the following:
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.2
lamboot boot
Be sure you compiled your MPI application with mpicc (or mpic++, or mpif77, depending on in which language your application was written).
Simply type:
mpirun C <application> <application arguments>
where theC
stands for "using all the available processors",
<application>
represents the name of the application
you are trying to run (in this case puma-par), and
<application arguments>
represents the parameters of
puma-par.