[MOAB-dev] failed to run parallel test case: moab-5.1.0 with mpich-3.3

Vijay S. Mahadevan vijay.m at gmail.com
Tue Jun 11 13:31:09 CDT 2019


Well it is good to know about the incompatibility. Thanks for the update
and glad that everything is working as it should.

Best,
Vijay

On Tue., Jun. 11, 2019, 11:40 Lorenzo Botti, <bottilorenzo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Deai Vijay,
> the examples runs fine with mpich-3.3.1 so I guess there was some
> problem with the previous mpich release (3.3).
> Sorry for bothering you.
> Bests
> Lorenzo
>
> Il giorno lun 10 giu 2019 alle ore 14:41 Lorenzo Botti
> <bottilorenzo at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > Dear Vijay,
> > I'm also surprised by this issue.
> > Tomorrow I will have the possibility to launch the tests individually,
> > I don't have access to the computer right now.
> > It would be great if you could test the same setup.
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > Il giorno dom 9 giu 2019 alle ore 22:16 Vijay S. Mahadevan
> > <vijay.m at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > >
> > > Lorenzo,
> > >
> > > I routinely run with mpich-3.2 on my Macbook with clang and have not
> > > seen any issues both in-source or out-of-source. Our buildbot builds
> > > do use mpich-3.1 on Ubuntu Trusty and there are no issues there as
> > > well. However, I currently don't see any builds with mpich-3.3 -
> > > though I would be surprised to see a different behavior with a newer
> > > minor MPI release. We can test it out and let you know if the failures
> > > can be replicated.
> > >
> > > Vijay
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 1:00 PM Lorenzo Botti <bottilorenzo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dear Vijay,
> > > > I tried to run the test individually last week and some of them
> hang. I do not remember exactly which but I can tell you in more detail if
> you need to know. Anyway, since something is not working correctly, I'd
> like to know if your builds take into account mpich-3.3.
> > > > Bests
> > > > Lorenzo
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 14:59 Vijay S. Mahadevan <vijay.m at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Dear Lorenzo,
> > > >>
> > > >> Sorry about my delayed response. I was on travel this past week and
> > > >> couldn't reply to you immediately.
> > > >>
> > > >> It is puzzling that the tests in parallel folder are getting built
> as
> > > >> expected but "make check" does not run them correctly. I can see
> that
> > > >> mpiexec program was set correctly during configuration and so the
> next
> > > >> logical check here would be to try and launch the test programs
> > > >> manually to see whether they succeed.
> > > >>
> > > >> Can you do the following:
> > > >> cd build/test/parallel && mpiexec -n 2 ./parallel_unit_tests &&
> > > >> mpiexec -n 2 ./parallel_hdf5_test
> > > >>
> > > >> Both those tests should run to completion successfully if everything
> > > >> is setup correctly. If these succeed, I would be out of ideas until
> we
> > > >> can replicate it locally. Let me know the result with the above
> > > >> experiment.
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks,
> > > >> Vijay
> > > >>
> > > >> On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 6:22 AM Lorenzo Botti <
> bottilorenzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > > Can you do the following two variations:
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > 1) Re-verifying your current approach
> > > >> > >   a) Go to test/parallel and do `make clean && make check | tee
> make_check.log`
> > > >> > >   b) Send us make_check.log so that we can see if things
> compile but
> > > >> > > do not run or nothing actually happens there.
> > > >> > >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Please find in attachment the make_check.log... so yes this is the
> > > >> > point where it hangs.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > > 2) Retry out-of-source
> > > >> > >   a) Perform `make distclean` in your in-source build
> > > >> > >   b) Do: `mkdir build && ../configure <configure arguments> &&
> make
> > > >> > > all && make check`
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > Let me know if (1) yields something useful and if not, (2)
> should
> > > >> > > resolve the issue. If (2) does work, then we may have a problem
> with
> > > >> > > in-source builds and I can check that on a workstation to
> replicate
> > > >> > > the problem. Hope my instructions above aren't confusing.
> > > >> > >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I got same behavior with out-of-source, following your
> instructions,
> > > >> > see attached config.log
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Bests
> > > >> > Lorenzo
>
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