RE: Octave setup on a Cluster Computer

[Iaan Rossouw Transnet Engineering KDS]

Hi Carlo,

Thank you for the swift response. I do appreciate it. 

I am currently using octave version 3.8.2. 

Thank you for the correction of the used syntax. I also specified the 
executable path within my run command, as can be seen below, and it seems to 
get me a bit further.

Mpirun --hostfile hostfile -np 14 --path /opt/local/bin/octave -q --eval "pkg 
load mpi; helloworld ()"

It is not working entirely yet, but hopefully if I invest more time this can be 
sorted out.

Thank you once again for your time and consideration, and if you have any other 
advice to offer I would greatly appreciate it.  

Kindest Regards,
Iaan

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlo De Falco [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 26 January 2016 01:16 PM
To: Iaan Rossouw Transnet Engineering KDS
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Octave setup on a Cluster Computer


On 26 Jan 2016, at 09:04, Iaan Rossouw Transnet Engineering KDS 
<address@hidden> wrote:

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> -------------------------------
> Run Command:
>  
> Mpirun --hostfile hostfile -np 14 octave -q -eval "pkg load mpi; helloworld()"
>  

IIRC the correct syntax should be 

mpirun --hostfile hostfile -np 14 octave -q --eval "pkg load mpi; helloworld()"

notice the use of '--eval' instead of '-eval'.

What version of Octave are you using?

The MPI package is not currently working on Octave 4.0.* you will need to 
install an older release to use MPI from Octave right now.

HTH,
c.
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