Yes. I did.
Because it was a same NIC with two ports each capable of delivering 5gb/s, I never thought that they should be in different subnet.
But once I changed the subnet for one of the ports on both the nodes, it seemed to work..


Also, I am looking for a good way to start understanding the implementation level details for OpenMPI. Can you point me to some good source?
(PS: To start with, I have already read the FAQ section)


thanks a lot for the help
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Joba

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Richard Bardwell <richard@sharc.co.uk> wrote:
Yes, they were on the same subnet. I guess that is the problem.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Squyres" <jsquyres@cisco.com>
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Did you have both of the ethernet ports on the same subnet, or were they on different subnets?


On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:36 AM, Richard Bardwell wrote:

I had exactly the same problem.
Trying to run mpi between 2 separate machines, with each machine having
2 ethernet ports, causes really weird behaviour on the most basic code.
I had to disable one of the ethernet ports on each of the machines
and it worked just fine after that. No idea why though !

----- Original Message -----
From: Jingcha Joba
To: users@open-mpi.org
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:43 PM
Subject: [OMPI users] Problem running an mpi applicatio​n on nodes with more than one interface

Hello Everyone,
This is my 1st post in open-mpi forum.
I am trying to run a simple program which does Sendrecv between two nodes having 2 interface cards on each of two nodes.
Both the nodes are running RHEL6, with open-mpi 1.4.4 on a 8 core Xeon processor.
What I noticed was that when using two or more interface on both the nodes, the mpi "hangs" attempting to connect.
These details might help,
Node 1 - Denver has a single port "A" card (eth21 - 25.192.xx.xx - which I use to ssh to that machine), and a double port "B" card (eth23 - 10.3.1.1 & eth24 - 10.3.1.2).
Node 2 - Chicago also the same single port A card (eth19 - 25.192.xx.xx - again uses for ssh) and a double port B card ( eth29 - 10.3.1.3 &eth30 - 10.3.1.4).
My /etc/host looks like
25.192.xx.xx denver.xxx.com denver
10.3.1.1 denver.xxx.com denver
10.3.1.2 denver.xxx.com denver
25.192.xx.xx chicago.xxx.com chicago
10.3.1.3 chicago.xxx.com chicago
10.3.1.4 chicago.xxx.com chicago
...
...
...
This is how I run,
mpirun --hostfile host1 --mca btl tcp,sm,self --mca btl_tcp_if_exclude eth21,eth19,lo,virbr0 --mca btl_base_verbose 30 -np 4 ./Sendrecv
I get bunch of things from both chicago and denver, which says its has found components like tcp, sm, self and stuffs, and then hangs at
[denver.xxx.com:21682] btl: tcp: attempting to connect() to address 10.3.1.3 on port 4
[denver.xxx.com:21682] btl: tcp: attempting to connect() to address 10.3.1.4 on port 4
However, if I run the same program by excluding eth29 or eth30, then it works fine. Something like this:
mpirun --hostfile host1 --mca btl tcp,sm,self --mca btl_tcp_if_exclude eth21,eth19,eth29,lo,virbr0 --mca btl_base_verbose 30 -np 4 ./Sendrecv
My hostfile looks like this
[sshuser@denver Sendrecv]$ cat host1
denver slots=2
chicago slots=2
I am not sure if I have to provide somethbing else. Please if I have to, please feel to ask me..
thanks,
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Joba


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