Install OpenMpi on windows 10 - windows-10

I am a computer science student and this season we have a course in MPI programming in C language. I don't have enough hard disk space to install visual studio on my computer and I have installed codeblocks, and MinGW as compiler, and I also installed Microsoft MPI to run mpi .exe code. Now I think that I need to install Open mpi to compile my code to exe and run it using MSMPI. Please correct me if I'm wrong until now :)
In OpenMPI download page we just have binary codes, and I don't know how to install binary code in windows...
Thanks all

If you plan to build your code with Open MPI and then run it with Microsoft MPI, then just drop that idea !
MPI is standard in a sense that a code can be built with any MPI implementation. There is no guarantee a binary can be ran with any MPI implementation.
Open MPI is not supported under windows, but you can use cygwin and install the openmpi packages. Linux subsystem for Ubuntu is an option i never tried but that might work too.

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From the website:
Cygwin is not:
a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows.
mingw-w64 is not enough, I need a full POSIX platform. I'm also wondering if it's possible to target MSYS2.
Perhaps I'm not understanding correctly, and one doesn't need to compile in Cygwin but only mingw-w64 is necessary.
Thanks!
It is possible to compile for Cygwin from Linux.
The cygwin1.dll itself is built in such way.
Packages/libraries are available at:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/yselkowitz/cygwin/
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Compile python 3 script to standalone exe in Linux

Can a python 3 script be compiled in a linux environment in such a way as it can be run under Windows?
If so what compile tool? ie. py2exe or pyinstaller ect.
You're looking for cross-compilation, and the answer is no.
Can I package Windows binaries while running under Linux?
No, this is not supported. Please use Wine for this, PyInstaller runs fine in Wine. You may also want to have a look at this thread in the mailinglist. In version 1.4 we had build in some support for this, but it showed to work only half. It would require some Windows system on another partition and would only work for pure Python programs. As soon as you want a decent GUI (gtk, qt, wx), you would need to install Windows libraries anyhow. So it's much easier to just use Wine.
Can I package Windows binaries while running under OS X?
No, this is not supported. Please try Wine for this.
Can I package OS X binaries while running under Linux?
This is currently not possible at all. Sorry! If you want to help out, you are very welcome.
You may use Wine or the Windows Subsystem for Linux to attempt using PyInstaller to build stand-alone binaries for different operating systems, however, neither PyInstaller, nor Py2Exe, nor cx_freeze, nor any tool to my knowledge does this.
Effectively, in-order to do something like this, you would need a cross-compiler such as MinGW or VC++ for Linux, and integrate it into PyInstaller, which is very far outside of the scope of the project. It is much easier to use WINE or having a dual-boot system or multiple development computers.

How do I download and install GNU Fortran compiler? Or should I use codeblocks?

I'm having trouble navigating GNU's website and finding the necessary files. And I strongly suspect the installation process isn't going to be straightforward given how their website is designed.
Or should I use Codeblocks instead?
Do I also need to install Cygwin since I'm running Windows 7?
(I have prior, basic experience with C, Matlab and Wolfram Mathematica programming)
I downloaded gfortran-windows-20140523.exe from http://users.humboldt.edu/finneyb/gfortran-windows-20140523.exe as suggested on https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#Windows and was able to install gfortran from this binary on Windows 8.1 and to compile a Fortran program. Gfortran --version says 4.9.0 20131208 (experimental)

64bit version of Octave on Windows

Does anybody know how to build Octave for x64 Windows? The 2GB data limitation for x32 is too limiting for many problems that require analysis on large data sets.
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows has information on installing Octave on Windows and links to building it from source using different methods.
GNU Octave is primarily developed on GNU/Linux and other POSIX conformal systems. The ports of GNU Octave to Windows use different approaches to get most of the original Octave and adapt it to Microsoft Windows idiosyncrasies...
Windows support is experimental.
According to http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html
To use arrays larger than 2 GB, Octave has to be configured with the option --enable-64. This option is experimental...
Compiling Octave for 64 bit is experimental on Linux. It might cause a lot of headache to try an experimental feature in a port of the software. It would be better to use a true Linux installation for now. If you feel adventurous, try compiling it in http://www.cygwin.com/
I have installed Octave-4.0.0 into windows 7,8 and 10 in x64 platforms. All works perfectly well.
Just follow these steps
Download Octave-4.0.0_0-installer.exe from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/
Install the same - just follow the steps in the installer.
Find the build_packages.m file in C:\Octave\Octave 4.0.0\src
Open it in Octave and find
try install general-1.3.4.tar.gz, and try install signal-1.3.1.tar.gz, the versions are wrong.
Replace with 2.0.0 and 1.3.2 respectively.
In the build_packages.m file find
pkg ('install', pkgname, '-noauto').
Change it to
pkg ('install', pkgname).
Skip this and you will have to load the packages you require every time you use Octave. Lesser load for octave though. Sometimes it may take a while for the packages to get installed, kindly wait.
Run build_packages.m
load the packages
e.g. to load the general package - pkg load general
Note that the signal package is dependent on the control package.
I found that the plot function got octave stuck. The answer for the same is to type in at the command window
pkg rebuild -noauto oct2mat
Found this solution in Plot window not responding
Hope this works for u too. :)
I found Sreepad's ans is CORRECT. I use octave on win 10 64-bit OS.
octave 4.0.0 is ok as Sreepad said, But Octave 4.2.1 is not OK on Win 10 64-bit OS.

Problems running MPI (OpenMPI) app on Linux on ARM

I am trying to follow this tutorial for building and running an MPI application on an ARM based Ubuntu 11.10 system.
When installing open-mpi environment on my PC machine, the sample program runs well. However, trying the same on the ARM machine, the terminal hangs up and I need to kill the MPI process from a second terminal in order to release it.
The MPI packages I installed using apt-get, on both machines, were mpi-default-dev and mpi-default-bin, so I assume that the packages are as updated as they can be.
The first sample program in the tutorial makes every process prints a "hello" message with some info. On the PC I get messages from all 8 processes (although running on a single core) and then the program ends. On the ARM, I get no output at all. The program is just stuck immediately after launch.
Any idea on what's wrong? I am not sure even where to start to debug this?
Update: I tried removing the OpenMPI package and install the alternative MPICH2 package - but the result is just the same.
Ubuntu 11.10 did not ship with a functional Open MPI implementation for ARM (although it may have shipped with a nonfunctional one). Ubuntu 12.04 did.
I would recommend building your own Open MPI from source - available at http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/, unless you can update to a more recent version of Ubuntu.
Alternatively, you could rebuild the 11.10 package using the fixes pointed out in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openmpi/+bug/949044.

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