Linux with Intel MPI

The format of the command for Intel MPI is

 

mpirun -n <number of processes> -ppn <number of processes per node> converge-intelmpi

 

For example, the command to run CONVERGE on 4 nodes with 4 processing cores per node is

 

mpirun -n 16 -ppn 4 converge-intelmpi

 

In practice, however, a few things should be added to the mpirun command line to make it more practical. To write the output to a file and start the job in the background, use

 

mpirun -n 16 -ppn 4 converge-intelmpi < /dev/null > logfile.out &

 

The redirect of the /dev/null is recommended by Intel MPI to avoid some warnings that would otherwise be sent to stdout.