MPICH installation

Solution 1:

1. Install mpich from the default Ubuntu repositories.

sudo apt install mpich

2. Copy the below hello world C code into a new file named mpi_hello_world.c and save.

#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    // Initialize the MPI environment
    MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);

    // Get the number of processes
    int world_size;
    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);

    // Get the rank of the process
    int world_rank;
    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);

    // Get the name of the processor
    char processor_name[MPI_MAX_PROCESSOR_NAME];
    int name_len;
    MPI_Get_processor_name(processor_name, &name_len);

    // Print off a hello world message
    printf("Hello world from processor %s, rank %d out of %d processors\n",
           processor_name, world_rank, world_size);

    // Finalize the MPI environment.
    MPI_Finalize();
}

3. Change directories to the directory which contains mpi_hello_world.c, then compile and run the code with the following commands.

mpicc mpi_hello_world.c -o hello-world  
mpirun -np 5 ./hello-world