Parallel Program Initiation Software for theHIVE
Introduction.
SPMD consists of several commands that allow the user to use the same parallel program initiation interface for PVM, LAM MPI, or MPICH programs. This interface was developed for the HIVE (http://newton.gsfc.nasa.gov/thehive). The HIVE consists, a 64 dual processor cluster of PCs and 2 host nodes. All users using SPMD start a parallel program from a host and SPMD distributes them across the nodes of the cluster. This document gives the step necessary to install SPMD.