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Why doesn mpirun work in the cygwin bash shell?

April 26, 2017bash Cygwin mpirun Shell

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Why doesn mpirun work in the cygwin bash shell?

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The cygwin environment has problems with the Windows API function CreateProcess. A workaround was introduced in mpich.nt.1.2.2 Oct 10, 2001. This and more recent versions of mpirun function in a bash shell running in a command prompt. MPIRun does not work in the XFree86 windowing environment.