Appendix D: The mpC User s Guide

C.2. USER’S GUIDE

A typical session to run the N-body application includes the following steps (see Appendix D for a full mpC user’s guide):

• Open a virtual parallel machine, vpm

  mpcopen vpm

• Translate your mpC program into a C file

  mpcc pquanc8.mpc

• Copy file pquanc8.c from the current directory to the $MPCLOAD directory

  cp pquanc8.c $MPCLOAD

• Broadcast this file from the host workstation to all other workstations involved

  mpcbcast pquanc8.c

• Produce executable pquanc8 on all workstations involved

  mpcload -het -o pquanc8 pquanc8.c

• Run the application

  mpcrun pquanc8