Indeed - we'll have a look at our scripts and doc and make sure all is
clean and clear for the upcoming release.
Cheers.
On 22 Jul 2008, at 06:08, Dave Flitney wrote:
> Ruth,
>
> By "posted" instructions are you talking about ones on our web-site
> or in this mail forum? The machine-list parallel mechanism hasn't
> been supported for a while now and shouldn't be documented on our
> web site anymore. Sorry if it's still there and this is causing
> confusion. If you want to parallelize then you will need to use a
> scheduler such as SGE now (not really suited to such a small
> system). Of course a two-way division of bedpostx is trivially done
> manually, using fslsplit and fslmerge, or easier still run two
> bedpostx at a time.
>
> On 16 Jul 2008, at 23:31, Ruth Carper wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to set up bedpostx to run in parallel on my dual CPU
>> linux box.
>> I've followed the posted instructions so that the file /etc/
>> profile.d contains:
>>
>> FSLDIR=/usr/local/fsl
>> . ${FSLDIR}/etc/fslconf/fsl.sh
>> PATH=${FSLDIR}/bin:${PATH}
>> FSLMACHINELIST="IP_address IP_address"
>> FSLREMOTECALL=ssh
>> export FSLDIR PATH FSLMACHINELIST FSLREMOTECALL
>>
>> And I've verified that my FSLMACHINELIST and FSLREMOTECALL
>> environment
>> variables have been set in the output from 'env'.
>>
>> But still only one CPU gets used.
>>
>> The only possible problem I can see is that, when I use the command
>> 'ssh
>> my_IP_address', it asks for my password (even though I'm already
>> logged in
>> to that computer).
>>
>> Is this likely to be the problem? Is there a way around it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ruth
>>
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
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