Intel® MPI Library Developer Guide for Windows* OS

Developer Guide

Contents

Prerequisite Steps

Before you start using any of the Intel® MPI Library functionality, make sure to establish the proper environment settings:
  1. Set up the Intel MPI Library environment by
    running the
    setvars.bat
     file
    , which is found in your installation directory (by default,
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\mpi\<
    version
    >
    ).
    You must run
    setvars
     at the start of each
     command-line
    session
    unless you are using Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows* (Visual Studio runs
    setvars
     automatically)
    . See the Intel oneAPI HPC Toolkit Get Started Guide for more details, including options for automatic setup of environment settings.
  2. To run an MPI application on a cluster, the Intel MPI Library needs to know names of all its nodes. Create a text file listing the cluster node names. The format of the file is one name per line, and the lines starting with
    #
     are ignored. To get the name of a node, use the
    hostname
     utility.
    A sample host file may look as follows: 
    > type hosts
# This line is ignored
clusternode1
clusternode2
clusternode3
clusternode4
  3. Make sure the Hydra service is installed and running on the cluster nodes. To check this, enter the command: 
    > hydra_service -status
    If the service is not running, use the following command to install and run it: 
    > hydra_service -install
    You must run this command as an administrator.
  4. Register your Windows user credentials to enable the process manager to launch MPI jobs. Credentials are encrypted and stored in the registry: 
    > mpiexec -register
    If you do not do this in advance, you will be prompted to enter credentials when running an MPI job with
    mpiexec
    .
    You can also use the domain-based authorization, which does not ask for your credentials, but requires some additional configuration. See User Authorization for details.
After completing these steps, you are ready to use the Intel MPI Library.

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.