MPI testing program Prerequisites: OpenMPI installed on localhost and every host wich you need to run program on Build and prepair: e.g. Ubuntu: g++ -g exponent.cpp -o exponent -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include -lmpi -lmpi_cxx Run on localhost runmpi ./exponent Run on multiple hosts: Install openssh-server on all hosts sudo apt install openssh-server Create (if already doesn't exist) your ssh-key ssh-keygen copy the ssh key to every host with MPI running e.g. ssh-copy-id ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@host copy ./exponent to every host to same locations edit o create file like ./hosts, defining all the hosts with MPI run with runmpi --hostfile ./hosts ./exponent