SYNOPSIS

ipcluster {piexec,local,mpirun,pbs,ssh} [options]

DESCRIPTION

ipcluster is a control tool for IPython's parallel computing functions.

IPython cluster startup. This starts a controller and engines using various approaches. Use the IPYTHONDIR environment variable to change your IPython directory from the default of .ipython or _ipython. The log and security subdirectories of your IPython directory will be used by this script for log files and security files.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

The first positional argument should be one of: {mpiexec, local, mpirun, pbs, ssh}, which are the available cluster types.

For detailed help on each, type "ipcluster TYPE --help". Briefly:

  local         run a local cluster
  mpirun        run a cluster using mpirun (mpiexec also works)
  mpiexec       run a cluster using mpiexec (mpirun also works)
  pbs           run a pbs cluster
  ssh           run a cluster using ssh, should have ssh-keys setup

OPTIONS

-h, --help

show help message and exit

EXAMPLE

ipcluster local -n 4

This command will start 4 IPython engines on the local computer.

AUTHOR

ipcluster is a tool that ships with IPython, created by the IPython Development Team.

This manual page was written by Stephan Peijnik <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Modified by Fernando Perez <[email protected]> for inclusion in IPython.