Make sure that both mpicc
and mpirun
come from the same MPI implementation. When mpirun
fails to provide the necessary universe information to the launched processes, with the most common reason for that being that the executable was build against a different MPI implementation (or even a different version of the same implementation), MPI_Init()
falls back to the so-called singleton MPI initialisation and creates an MPI_COMM_WORLD
that only contains the calling process. Thus the result is many MPI processes within their own separate MPI_COMM_WORLD
instances.
Usually commands like mpicc --showme
, which mpicc
and which mpirun
could help you find out if that is the case indeed.