--- trunk/doc/user/execute.tex 2009/04/06 05:32:12 2369 +++ trunk/doc/user/execute.tex 2009/04/06 06:41:49 2370 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ number of hosts in the host file is used. The default value is 1. \item[\programopt{-p} \var{np}] the number of MPI processes per node. The total number of processes to be used is -$\var{nn} \cdot \var{np}$. This option overwrites the value of the \env{ESCRIPT_NUM_PROC} environment variable. If $\var{np}>1$ but {\it escript} is not compiled for \MPI a warning is printed but execution is continued with $\var{np}=1$. The default value is 1. +$\var{nn} \cdot \var{np}$. This option overwrites the value of the \env{ESCRIPT_NUM_PROCS} environment variable. If $\var{np}>1$ but {\it escript} is not compiled for \MPI a warning is printed but execution is continued with $\var{np}=1$. The default value is 1. \item[\programopt{-t} \var{nt}] the number of threads used per processes. The option overwrites the value of the \env{ESCRIPT_NUM_THREADS} environment variable. @@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ \item[\programopt{-v}] prints some diagonstic information. \end{itemize} +\subsection{Notes} +\begin{itemize} + \item Make sure that \program{mpiexec} is in your \env{PATH}. + \item For MPICH and INTELMPI and for the case a hostfile is present +\program{escript} will start the \program{mpd} demon before execution. +\end{itemize} \section{Input and Output} When \MPI is used on more than one process ($\var{nn} \cdot \var{np} >1$) no input from the standard input is accepted. Standard output on any process other the the master process (\var{rank}=0) will not be available.