[CIG-LONG] Installation of Gale

[Walter Landry]

"Duncan F Keppie" <KEPPIEDF at gov.ns.ca> wrote:
> Hello CIG,
>  
> I'm wondering whether GALE parallelism presumes a cluster OS on
> which it has been compiled, or can application-level communication
> from multiple GALE installations be enabled in a networked
> environment without a cluster OS?

Gale requires that all of the machines communicate over MPI.  You can
set up the machines to use MPI, but it is not a trivial thing to do.
In the process of setting that up, you would create a command like
"mpiexec".  Running Gale would then be something like "mpiexec -np 4
Gale input.xml".

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org