[mpich-discuss] Problems with conversion from 32-bit to 64-bit

Wed Jun 2 10:20:12 CDT 2010

After spending all day getting nowhere with this problem I decided to start from scratch and reinstall viusal studio. I've no idea what I did wrong with the first installation but the test programs are working now... so no complaints!

Thanks again to Jayesh and Dave for their help

Euan

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From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of jayesh at mcs.anl.gov [jayesh at mcs.anl.gov]
Sent: 01 June 2010 18:40
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Problems with conversion from 32-bit to 64-bit

 That is an excellent point. You need to make sure that you compile/link with the x64 header/libs and not use a copy of the libs from a 32-bit installation (You will get similar error msgs if you compile with 32-bit libs).

-Jayesh
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From: "Dave M Hiatt" <dave.m.hiatt at citi.com>
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 12:05:58 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Problems with conversion from 32-bit to 64-bit

Also check to make sure that you haven't copied the needed Win32 libraries from Program Files(x86) to the build directories.  You should be getting your MPICH2 libs from Program Files only, otherwise you'll get the Win32 libs. If you have then you're going to satisfy the x64 calls with Win32's, and the two won't run together.

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From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of jayesh at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:37 AM
To: Euan Barlow
Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Problems with conversion from 32-bit to 64-bit

Hi,
 A typical way of debugging a problem like this is to use the dependency walker (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235265.aspx) to determine the source of the problem.
 Try running your MPI program from the directory (cd x64\Release) where the executable exists (mpiexec -n 2 MYMPIPGM.exe).
 Try running the MPI program from command line (without mpiexec) and see if it works.

Regards,
Jayesh

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From: dave
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 11:11:34 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: RE: [mpich-discuss] Problems with conversion from 32-bit to 64-bit

We are using Windows 7, MS Visual Studio 2008, and MPICH2 1.2.1, we build both the Win32 and x64 versions from the same projects.  We have some machines with Win32 MPI and some with x64, both work as advertised.

I would suggest based on your descriptions to look for some obvious things.

Remember that the x64 build puts the Debug and Release in x64\Debug and x64\Release instead of just Release and Debug.  It might just be as simple as not having and up to date copy procedure to where you execute from.

Also remember to restart the smpd for the x64 version.  I'd look for things like that.  We found it went very smoothly and works fine, so the underlying components work just fine, I can tell you that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Euan Barlow" <euan.barlow at strath.ac.uk>
To: jayesh at mcs.anl.gov, mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 11:11:34 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: RE: [mpich-discuss] Problems with conversion from 32-bit to 64-bit

Hi Jayesh,

Thanks for your quick response.

I have now reinstalled the 64-bit visual studio SP1 runtime and recompiled the code but it still produces the same error. I've noticed that if I select more than 3 processors, the following error code is produced in addition to the previous one:

"Error posting readv, An established connection was aborted by the software in your hosty machine.(10053)
unable to post a read for the command string,
sock error: Error = 10053"

I'm not sure if these errors are related.

The test code that I am trying to compile is the cxxpi.cxx code which I copied from the 32-bit installation files.

Cheers

Euan

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From: jayesh at mcs.anl.gov [jayesh at mcs.anl.gov]
Sent: 01 June 2010 16:40
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Cc: Euan Barlow
Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Problems with conversion from 32-bit to 64-bit

Hi,

# Did you recompile your code after installing the 64-bit version of MPICH2 ?
# Did you install the 64-bit Visual studio SP1 runtime (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EB4EBE2D-33C0-4A47-9DD4-B9A6D7BD44DA&displaylang=en) ?

 Let us know the results.

Regards,
Jayesh

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From: "Euan Barlow" <euan.barlow at strath.ac.uk>
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 10:32:02 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [mpich-discuss] Problems with conversion from 32-bit to 64-bit

Hello,

I have been using the latest version of MPICH2 on a 32-bit windows OS with MS visual studio 2008 and I have recently converted to a 64-bit machine.

If I download the 32-bit version of MPICH2 my code successfully executes as before; however, if I then uninstall the 32-bit version and install the 64-bit version I can't get the same code to execute. The error message produced is:

"launch failed: CreateProcess(test_parallel_3.exe) on 'machine_name' failed, error 14001 - The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect..."

As far as I can tell, mpiexec and smpd are both installed and working correctly. I think the problem is with Visual Studio. I have used the configuration manager to set the active solution platform to "x64" with the active solution configuration as "debug", but this doesn't seem to help. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

I would appreciate any help/advice.

Many Thanks

Euan

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