[Beowulf] An annoying MPI problem

Reuti reuti at staff.uni-marburg.de
Thu Jul 10 15:02:35 PDT 2008


Hi,

Am 10.07.2008 um 17:02 schrieb Joe Landman:

> Lombard, David N wrote:
>
>>> I'll try all the usual things (reduce the optimization level, etc).
>>> Sage words of advice (and clue sticks) welcome.
>> Not trying to sound like an ad...
>> The currently shipping Intel Trace Collector and Analyzer (7.1),  
>> includes
>> message correctness checking.  An option is available that adds a
>> library to an Intel MPI build that checks messages during the run.
>> You can then view any errors it found in the Intel Trace Analyzer.
>> This may find there's a problem that has only just started to trip  
>> the
>> code up.  I certainly have welts from those; I suspect others do too.
>
> Actually, Intel MPI and related tools are in general one of the  
> things we want to try.  User may be open to that (especially if it  
> is more pain free than the alternative).

isn't Intel MPI based on MPICH2 - is there any file what they added/ 
changed in detail?

-- Reuti


> We have reliable functional non-sm/non-ib based execution on  
> multiple machines now.  New code drop coming, so we have to wait on  
> that.  Once we have that, we'll be doing more testing.
>
> Joe
>
>
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