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MPICH2 Parallel Computing using Code::Blocks C++ IDE

Here is the installation procedure of MPICH2 parallel computing library on CodeBlock
C++ IDE:

1. Download and install MPICH2 library from

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/

2. Don’t forget to add MPICH2 PATH to your user environment variable.

2. Open your CodeBlock C++ IDE

3. Point to "Settings" menu and select "Compiler and debugger"

4. Go to "Linker settings" tab, in the Link Library box click "Add".

From the pop-up windows browse to MPICH lib directory and select mpi.lib
then click OK to return to compiler setting window.
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5. Go to "Search Directories" tab. In the "Compiler" option click Add and point to your
MPICH2 include folder path. Usually, it located in C:\Program Files\MPICH2\include
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6. Now you can test your MPICH based program.

7. Create new project (File->New->Project->Console Application)

8. In the main.cpp write this code:

#include <iostream>
#include "mpi.h"
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{
int my_rank;
int size;
MPI_Init(&argc, &argv); /*START MPI */

/*DETERMINE RANK OF THIS PROCESSOR*/

MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &my_rank);

/*DETERMINE TOTAL NUMBER OF PROCESSORS*/

MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);

printf("Hello world! I'm rank (processor number) %d of %d processor \n",

my_rank, size);

MPI_Finalize(); /* EXIT MPI */

return 0;
}

9. Build the code (Ctrl-F9) and your executable program result will be in folder
bin/Debug of your project folder.

To run your parallel program, you must launch it using mpiexec.exe if you use Windows
Operating System. Follow these steps:

1. Open console and change directory to the executable file in your project path. For
example, my program is located in this folder:
E:\My Documents\C++ Project\MPI\bin\Debug
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2. Suppose you want to execute your parallel program named MPI.exe using 2 nodes
locally (in your computer only), the script to execute program will look like this:
E:\My Documents\C++ Project\MPI\bin\Debug>mpiexec -n 2 -localonly MPI

13. Then the correct output will be like this:

Hello world! I'm rank (processor number) 0 of 2 processor
Hello world! I'm rank (processor number) 1 of 2 processor

14. Then you are ready to code using MPICH2 using CodeBlocks C++ IDE...

Happy parallel computing!!! :)