Each hardware vendor may have different way to execute the MPP program.
Here is a summary for all the platforms.

	# is number of processor used for the job

Fujitsu VPP5000:

	It needs to setup a special queue to run the parallel program.
        User needs to submit the MPP job to that queue.  The number of
        processor used is control by the "-lPv #" option in the nqs
	system. 

        mpp960_executable
Fujitsu PrimePower:

        mpiexec -n # mpp970_executable


HP Compaq Alpha:

	dmpirun -np # mpp970_executable

HP-MPI: Linux and HP-UX
   
   (A) Linux: Download the rpm file at 

	    ftp://user@ftp.lstc.com/mpp-dyna/HP-MPI/ 
       (Labels: IA32 --> i386, ia64 --> Itanium 2, x86_64 --> AMD64 and XEON64)

       To install, be root and invoke:

       % rpm -ivh the_hp_mpi_file_you_downloaded.rpm
        
   (B) HP-UX: If you don't have HP-MPI on your system, please contact HP.

   To run the job within a single node (machine), do:

       % mpirun -np # mppdyna_executable <LS-DYNA command options>

   To avoid performance penalty due to slow I/O, it is preferable that
   the above command be run on a local file system.        

   To run the job across a cluster, first determine a working directory
   on each node with the same name to be used as working directory. To 
   avoid performance penalty due to slow I/O, it is preferable that this
   working directory be local to each node. Let the  name of this working
   directory be represented as <workdir>. Then invoke the following command
	
	     % mpirun -e MPI_WORKDIR=<workdir> <other options> -f appfile

   where appfile contains

	    -h hostname_1st -np #1 mpp_executable <LS-DYNA command options>
	    -h hostname_2nd -np #2 -e MPI_WORKDIR=<workdir> mpp_executable
	    -h hostname_3rd -np #3 -e MPI_WORKDIR=<workdir> mppdyna_executable
	    -h hostname_4th -np #4 -e MPI_WORKDIR=<workdir> mppdyna_executable
        .......

    hostname_1st is the hostname of the node where your submit the "mpirun" 
    command (root node), and hostname_2nd, hostname_3rd, hostname_4th and so on
    are hostnames for other nodes. #1, #2, #3, #4 are the number of processors 
    used from each node. Different number of processors can be used from 
    each node. 

    <Other options> include protocol-selection options, like -VAPI, and the CPU binding
    option -cpu_bind. For NUMA machines, like Opteron, it is advisable to use the CPU
    binding option to increase performance.

    HP-MPI license is automatically granted when running MPP DYNA. If you find that's not
    the case, please report to LSTC immediately.

    HP-MPI User's Guide, as a PDF file, is also available in 
          ftp://user@ftp.lstc.com/mpp-dyna/HP-MPI/

    For more complete information on HP-MPI, please go the following website:

          http://www.hp.com/go/mpi


IBM pwr3 and ppc:
	poe mpp960_executable -procs # -hfile node.list

	node.list contains the hostnames list for the MPP job to run. The
      	options can also given as environment variables, i.e.

	setenv MP_PROCS #
	setenv MP_HOSTFILE node.list

	Use "man poe" to get more detail information for IBM systems

Linux cluster:
  LAM-MPI:
	LAM/MPI can be freely downloaded from "www.lam-mpi.org".  
        Follow the instruction to install the package and start the 
        "lamd" deamon, and run the MPP job

	mpirun -np # mpp960_executable

  7.0.3:
        For LAM/MPI 7.0.3, MPI share libraries are needed for execution.  Please
        create libraries with single underscore for all symbols. (Linux default
        with g77 will give double underscore, i.e. __) Otherwise, the exe will
        not find out the proper external references. 
        OR, you can download the premade libraries from
        
        ftp://user@ftp.lstc.com/mpp-dyna/LAM-MPI/

        which matches your hardware to replace your local libraries.

  MPICH:
	MPICH can be freely downloaded from "www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich".
	Follow the instruction to install the package and run the mpp job

	mpirun -np # mpp960_executable

NEC SX5:
	mpirun -np # mpp960_executable

SGI Origin:
	mpirun -np # mpp960_executable

SUN SPARC:
	mpirun -np # mpp960_executable

Windows 2000/NT/XP:
        MPICH can be freely downloaded from "www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich".
        Follow the instruction to install the package and configurate the 
        clusters using the tool provided.  After the clusters are setup, run 
        the mpp job under DOS emulation window

        mpirun -np # mpp960_executable