I have developed an MPI-enabled application that will be run by end users on their 64-bit Windows machines. The application and all its files are packaged as a zip file, and therefore doesn't need a true 'installation'. The Runtime Environment files of the Intel MPI library (as specified by the 'redist-rt.txt' file) are also included in the zipfile.
Tests have shown that, in order for the end users to run the MPI application on their multi-core Windows machines, they require Admin privileges to start the 'hydra-service'. The key problem is that many of these end users work in *tightly-controlled* computer environments, where obtaining such 'Admin' actions is _very_ difficult.
Is there any way around the requirement for Admin privileges of hydra-service in order to run an MPI application? Or some user-accessible replacement for hydra-service?