Installing mpi4py for use with Python and MPI



Via Ubuntu Linux Super Computer, all nodes (you can do all of this on just 1 device, however):

On all nodes:

sudo apt-get install python

sudo apt-get install python-mpi4py

cd ~

sudo mkdir mpi4py

cd mpi4py

wget http://mpi4py.googlecode.com/files/mpi4py-1.3.tar.gz

tar xfz mpi4py-1.3.tar.gz

cd mpi4py-1.3/demo

Just the master node now:

mpirun.openmpi -np 2 -machinefile /home/pi/mpi_testing/machinefile python helloworld.py

For the above code, you will need that machine file to exist. We placed ours from the building a super computer tutorial in the /home/pi/mpi_testing/ directory under the name of machinefile. The contents of the machine file are just the local IP addresses listed out, separated by new lines.

supercomputing tutorial

To get the local IP address, usually 192.168.x.x, type "ifconfig" in your shell.

From the test we ran, you should get some simple helloworld output. If not, you should go back and look everything over!


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