HP-MPI User's Guide (11th Edition)

Getting started
Chapter 218
environment before running your program. You become familiar with the
file structure in your HP-MPI directory. The HP-MPI licensing policy is
explained.
The goal of this chapter is to demonstrate the basics to getting started
using HP-MPI. It is separated into two major sections: Getting started
using HP-UX or Linux, and Getting started using Windows.
For complete details about running HP-MPI and analyzing and
interpreting profiling data, refer to “Understanding HP-MPI” on page 41
and “Profiling” on page 173. The topics covered in this chapter are:
• Getting started using HP-UX or Linux
— Configuring your environment
— Setting PATH
— Setting shell
— Compiling and running your first application
— Building and running on a single host
— Building and running on a Linux cluster using appfiles
— Building and running on an XC cluster using srun
— Directory structure for HP-UX and Linux
— HP-UX and Linux man pages
— Licensing Policy for Linux
— Version identification
• Getting started using Windows
— Configuring your environment
— Compiling and running your first application
— Building and running on a single host
— Building and running multihost on Windows CCS clusters
— Building and running MPMD applications on Windows CCS
— Building an MPI application on Windows with Visual Studio
and using the property pages