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At present we're trying to write a program which uses mpirun to launch multiple X11 clients. If the programs are text-only, then using the following command, we can run proceses on a list of computers:

mpirun -np 4 --hostfile hostlist date

Here hostlist is a file of mpi-configured computers. The computers are set up to authenticate automatically using public keys. We can also run X11 programs on the local computer only, for instance:

mpirun -np 4 xclock

shows four xclocks as expected. However, if we try to run X11 programs using a hostfile:

mpirun -np 4 --hostfile hostlist xclock

then two xclocks launch but the remote computer reports:

Error: can't open display:

However, we have configured .ssh/config with

ForwardX11 Yes

And we can verify that the following command sequence works:

ssh 10.0.0.2
# connect to mpi cluster node
xclock
# xclock appears on screen

Furthermore, if we set a DISPLAY variable with mpirun's -x as follows:

mpirun -np 4 --hostfile hostlist -x DISPLAY=10.0.0.1:0.0 xclock

Then we get another error:

Error: can't open display: 10.0.0.1:0.0

We tried to disable any access control with:

xhost +

To summarize, we'd like some help with mpirun and X11 Forwarding. We're running on Ubuntu 12.10 and openmpi 1.4.5.

speciousfool
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Following command seems to work well

mpirun -d -np 4 -hostfile hostlist -mca pls_rsh_agent "ssh -X -n" xclock
user31064
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