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Documentation for deploying and using Alces Flight Appliances
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mpich not available so docs don't work #67

Open mikecroucher opened 7 years ago

mikecroucher commented 7 years ago

I've just spun up a AlcesFlight instance on EC2 and tried to follow the docs at

flight-appliance-docs/docs/source/getting-started/environment-usage/gridware-howto/using-mpich.rst

It suggests that I install mpich by doing

alces gridware install mpich

This doesn't work.

alces gridware install mpich

ERROR: No matching package found for: mpich

This is because mpich is not in gridware-packages-main

https://github.com/alces-software/gridware-packages-main/tree/master/pkg/mpi

Although it is in volatile...and has been for 4 years.

https://github.com/alces-software/packager-base/tree/master/mpi

ColonelPanicks commented 6 years ago

Hi @mikecroucher,

Firstly, apologies for only just getting around to responding to this.

The documentation you mention is part of the (now-outdated) 2016.4r1 release. it seems like that documentation is no longer relevant.

Instead of mpich I believe that mpich2 would be what you're looking for, this is available in the main gridware repository:

alces gridware install mpich2

Should you need to use mpich then take a look at enabling volatile gridware repositories