Hello,

I need yo use MPI on a grid mobile BOINC, how do parallel processing MPI with BOINC?

I read something about thath for example it is possible to use MPICH2 library on BOINC

I need documentation or tutorials about that.

It is for academic research

Thank you !!!

You should read the documentation about creating BOINC applications: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectMain#DevelopingBOINCapplications especially the part about MultiCore (or multi threaded) applications. There are also examples in the BOINC source code.

I think the OP has to explain what they mean with MPI.

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BOINC doesn't use MPI at all. The nearest we get on a cluster is to run a copy of it on each compute node. It doesn't allow for centralised settings but there are add-on apps that can help such as BOINCtasks which can monitor multiple BOINC computers.

I had a brief email discussion with Dr Anderson where I suggested an enhanced BOINC be able to run on a head node and use MPI to run tasks on compute nodes. Unfortunately there is no funding for this.

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MarkJ

I have no knowledge of MPI other than what I read on Wikipedia.

That said, I think it would work to run BOINC on the head node and then have the MPI aware science app distribute itself over the entire cluster.