[MPICH] Enabling TotalView

[Rajeev Thakur]

Was MPICH2 built on the Intel nodes? Suppose you build it on the AMD nodes
with --enable-totalview, does it run?

Rajeev 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of 
> peter_raeth at juno.com
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:40 PM
> To: thakur at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: peter_raeth at juno.com; mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [MPICH] Enabling TotalView
> 
> Attached is a top-level description of our cluster nodes.
> 
> From a cluster perspective, we were doing well until we 
> rebuilt MPICH2 with the --enable-totalview configuration option. 
>  
> Without running TotalView, if we run the application using 
> mpiexec on any single node, all goes well. If we run with 
> just the Intel nodes, things also go well. If we run on an 
> AMD-only cluster, we get corrupt merged sub-results, as we do 
> when Intel and AMD are mixed. My conclusion is that MPICH2 
> built to enable TotalView debugging is not capable of using 
> the AMD systems at hand.
>  
> It could be that our AMD nodes are just too outdated. Maybe 
> too RedHat 9 is an issue.
> 
> Are you aware of any issues with AMD systems or RedHat 9 
> relative to MPICH2 built with the --enable-totalview 
> configuration option? Are there other options that should be 
> enabled at the same time?
> 
>