[petsc-users] error with PAMI (fwd)

[Inge Gutheil]

Sorry,
I just found out that it is the user of our BlueGene/Q who sent the 
error message.
Inge

On 07/23/13 08:17, Inge Gutheil wrote:
> Hello,
> a user here in Juelich got the same error and he said he only got it on
> BlueGene with PETSc, so I believe there is a problem with PAMI and PETSc
> at least PETSc 3.3-p5. Im am just now installing PETSc 3.4.2 and want to
> ask the user whether the problem still occurs. I also had thought of
> posting it to the PETSc list but I do not have the complete error code,
> the user only sent us the PAMI error, and it was exactely the same
> place. If it is still there with PETSc 3.4.2, it might be a problem with
> PAMI, but IBM won't help if we can't give them a small reproducible
> example. Anyway, nice to hear that we are not alone in Juelich.
>
> Inge
>
> On 07/19/13 18:15, Satish Balay wrote:
>> Forwarding to petsc-users - perhaps other BG users have more
>> experience with PAMI.
>>
>> Satish
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:09:24 +0000
>> From: g.giangaspero at utwente.nl
>> To: petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov
>> Subject: [petsc-maint] error with PAMI
>>
>> Dear Authors,
>>
>> I am trying to run PETSc 3.3-p5 on a IBM Blue Gene/Q machine which 
>> features PAMI as MPI implementation and the IBM xl compiler. I would 
>> like to solve a non-linear system but as soon as the function 
>> SNESSolve is called the code crashes and I get the following error 
>> message (MooseMBFlow is the executable):
>>
>> MooseMBFlow: 
>> /bgsys/source/srcV1R2M0.14091/comm/sys/buildtools/pami/common/bgq/Memregion.h:58: 
>> pami_result_t PAMI::Memregion::createMemregion_impl(size_t*, size_t, 
>> void*, uint64_t): Assertion `rc == 0' failed
>>
>> These lines are the only ones being printed therefore I cannot tell 
>> you much more about the error.
>> I know this is not directly related to PETSc but I wonder if anybody 
>> had already experienced such a problem, I did not get any real help 
>> from the user support of that machine.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Giorgio Giangaspero
>>
>>
>
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Inge Gutheil
Juelich Supercomputing Centre
Institute for Advanced Simulation
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
52425 Juelich, Germany

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