3.1 Installing and Running

After you unpack the installation file, the directory contains a file ReadMe_first and five subdirectories:

To get a quick start, see ./doc/ReadMe_IMB.txt.

Use the following instructions if you are installing the Intel® MPI Benchmarks on Linux* OS:

To remove legacy binary object files and executable files, use the command:

make clean

To build the selected executable files, use the following command:

make MPI1 (or EXT or IO)

To build all three executables, use the following command:

make all

NOTE: The above command assumes that the environment variable CC has been set appropriately before the makefile command invocation.

Use the enclosed solution files as basis on the Microsoft* Windows* OS.

After installation, use your style of starting MPI programs, for example,

mpirun –np <P> IMB-MPI1 (IMB-EXT,IMB-IO)

to get the full suite of all benchmarks. For more selective running, see 6.1.2

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