9.6. Notes for OSCAR Users

LAM/MPI, MPICH, and HDF5 are installed as part of a standard OSCAR installation under the /opt directory to conform to the File System Hierarchy (FSH) standard (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/). Both MPICH and HDF5 have documentation subdirectories doc with additional information. OSCAR does not install MPE as part of the MPICH installation. If you want to use MPE, you'll need to go back and do a manual installation. Fortunately, this is not particularly difficult, but it can be a bit confusing.

9.6.1. Adding MPE

First, use switcher to select your preferred version of MPI . Since you can't run LAM/MPI as root, MPICH is probably a better choice. For example,