On Thu, Aug 08, 2002, Jianhui Wu wrote:
>
> A computer guy asked me
> whether the I/O is done by the master node (in a batch mode) or via
> the shell node (in an interactive mode).
The master node (node 0) does all I/O. The program is running in what
I think everyone would call "batch mode".
> Secondly, do MPICH
> requires a shared filesystem (instead of distributed filesystem)?
No, a shared filesystem is not required; the "slave" nodes never access
any filesystem (shared or otherwise.)
...dac
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