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Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am running a parallel execution (pw.x) on a SLURM LINUX interface and once I run the command sbatch filename.srm, the calculation starts running and then stops with the follwing error:</div><div><br></div><div>"<i style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">mpiexec_veredas5: cannot
connect to local mpd</span></i></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i> (/tmp/mpd2.console_sushil); possible causes:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i> 1. no mpd is running on this host<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i> 2. an mpd is running but was started without
a "console" (-n option)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i> In case 1, you
can start an mpd on this host with:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i> mpd &<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i> and you will be
able to run jobs just on this host.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i> For more details
on starting mpds on a set of hosts, see<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i> the MPICH2
Installation Guide."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i><br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i>I saw a previous message posted in 2009 about this error. I followed what prof. andrea did: I created a file elie.mpd.hosts and included one line in it (localhosts) then ran the coomad mpdboot -f ~/elie.mpd.hosts and run sbatch command again but in 3 seconds time, it stops with the same error. can anyone help..</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i><br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i>N.B: veredas 5 is the node at which I am executing the command but whatever node I try on , I get the same error</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i><br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i>Elie Moujaes</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i>University of Nottingham</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i>NG7 2RD</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><i>UK</i></span></p> </div></body>
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