a question about MPICH

[Ahmet Tokuz]

Hi to all,
I have a weird question about MPICH. Perhaps it may be a newbie
question.
I am currently building a Beowulf cluster. and I installed MPICH in our
master node and we can run all the programs and benchmark tests
seamlessly, even I
didnt share the MPI binaries with NFS. What i did is just to put the
binary which must be run with mpirun to shared home directory and let
it run. It works perfectly.
My question is one of our supervisors told me that our master node will
be single point of failure and it will cause bottleneck..So I am
supposed to install MPICH to all other nodes. Does it help to get rid
of single point of failure problem and eliminate the bottleneck? Or let
me ask in another way if I do so, will network traffic decrease?
Any comments will be appreciated
Yours Sincerely


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