[MOAB-dev] Building with zoltan

[Jason Kraftcheck]

Parmetis should not be required.  We've only tested with the SEACAS 
build of zoltan, but I'm not aware of any relevant differences in the 
Trilinos source.  As for the error you're seeing from mbpart:  please 
try updating to the latest version of the moab source.  I cannot 
reproduce the error.  That tool exists only in the beta and has seen 
some recent changes.

- jason



On 11/16/2010 11:06 AM, Neil N. Carlson wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting a parallel build of MOAB that includes
> working mbpart/mbzoltan tools.  First off, does it matter where
> the zoltan lib comes from?  I'm using the one that was built as
> part of Trilinos 10.6, but there is also a 3.2 and 3.3 version
> available independently from software.sandia.gov.  A colleague
> said he used a zoltan out of the SEACAS tools from sourceforge.net.
> Which one should I be using?  Second, what is the story with
> parmetis (included in the zoltan distribution tarballs).  Is this
> required?  My attempts so far have not included building this
> library.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
> -Neil
>
> PS: Here's the output from running mbpart.  It appears to work
> fine until the end when it tries to write the file.
>
> % mbpart 2 1x1x4.g 1x1x4.h5m
>
> Recursive Coordinate Bisection
> Partitioning total time: 0.00773811 (secs)
> Partitioning Statistics:
> [ lots of stuff omitted ]
> HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5-patch1) MPI-process 0:
>    #000: /opt/src/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.5-patch1/src/H5F.c line 1390 in H5Fcreate(): invalid file name
>      major: Invalid arguments to routine
>      minor: Bad value
> 1x1x4.h5m : failed to write file.
>    Error code: MB_FAILURE (15)
>    Error message: Failed to create file ""
>
>
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