Hi, the following is a way to run 2 MPI.NET PI.exe on 2 machines (could be XP) as a cluster
1) on each machine, start smpd.exe as: smpd -d
2) copy PI.exe to each machine's c:\tests directory
3) go to one of the machines, run: mpiexec -hosts 2 machine1 1 machine2 1 c:\tests\PI.exe
this will run PI.exe on 2 machines, with each machine running 1 process. The -hosts option's syntax is: -hosts 2 machine1 N machine2 M: where to run N processes on machine1 and M processes on machine2.
If you don't want to copy PI.exe to each machine, it is a little bit complex. the basic process is
a) create a share on some machine. e.g.
\\machine1\testshare, copy PI.exe there.
b) use .Net caspol.exe to set up the security policy on the above share.
c) go to one of the machines, run: mpiexec -hosts 2 machine1 1 machine2 1
\\machine1\testshare\PI.exe
hope this helps
Liwei
