[vtkusers] Re: problem with ParallelIso

[Jim Ahrens]

Typically this message means that mpirun cannot find your executable. You
will either need to provide an absolute path name to your executable or use
the -d option to specific a working directory (which can also include your
data files as well).

--Jim

Frederic Kleinermann wrote:

> Dear Jim Ahrens,
>
> I am trying to learn more on these new VTK classes dealing with parallel
> processing. Following your email concerning ParallelIso, I try to run
> it. I have managed to compile it and link it on a SGI onyx with 14
> processors. Since I haven't used MPI before, I have tried to run
> parallelIso as follow :
>
> mpirun -np 2 ParallelIso
>
> Then, it complains by saying
>
> mpirun cannot run executable.
>
> or if I type just
>
> ParallelIso
>
> then, it complains saying
>
> mpirun must be used to lauch all MPI applications
>
> I have tried a simple hello world mpi example without linking any VTK
> libraries and this simple example works.
>
> I have followed what Charles law suggested to try which was to replace
> the relative paths to the VTK libraries with complete paths. But so far
> I still have the same problem.
>
> I was wondering if you have any idea on why I have this problem.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> F.Kleinermann