[petsc-users] Is PETSc using internet?

[Eda Oktay]

Dear Lawrence,

I am using MPICC but not Mac, Fedora 25. If it will still work, I will try that.

Thanks!

Eda

Lawrence Mitchell <wencel at gmail.com>, 21 Tem 2020 Sal, 12:58 tarihinde
şunu yazdı:
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> > On 21 Jul 2020, at 10:49, Eda Oktay <eda.oktay at metu.edu.tr> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I am using the following libraries and for some reason, I figured out
> > that if ı am disconnected to internet, my program is not working:
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> [...]
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> > I thought that there is no reason for PETSc to go online for libraries
> > but I couldn't find any other reason.
> >
> > The first thing I am doing in my program after initializing SLEPc and
> > PETSc is reading the binary matrix from my file and when I am offline,
> > the program can't even get the matrix.
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> My crystal ball (which sometimes is wrong) guess that you're using a Mac, and MPICH as your MPI version? If so, it may be a problem in MPI_Init failing to resolve localhost to an IP address.
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> If these guesses are correct, does it help to add
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> 127.0.0.1       LOCALHOSTNAME.local
> 127.0.0.1       LOCALHOSTNAME
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> to /etc/hosts
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> where LOCALHOSTNAME is the name of the machine (as reported by hostname)
>
> Lawrence