[mvapich-discuss] vapi error on scyld configuration

[Abhinav Vishnu]

Hi Matt,

MVAPICH/MVAPICH2 do not require root permissions for compilation,
installation and usage. However, firmware updates and OFED installation
do require root permissions.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

:- Abhinav 

* On Apr,3 Matt Funk<matze999 at gmx.net> wrote :
> Hi Abhinav,
> 
> thank you very much for the advice.
> 
> My only question before i begin is whether i can do this without admin 
> privileges? I am only a user on the machine. I have asked the admin to 
> upgrade several times, but nothing has happened. He says that he hasn't 
> received any new software from the vendor.
> 
> 
> thanks
> mat
> 
> On Friday 13 April 2007 09:41, Abhinav Vishnu wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Thanks for using MVAPICH and reporting the problem to us. I believe that
> > you are using a *very old* version of MVAPICH with VAPI drivers. May i
> > suggest you to upgrade the MPI stack and the userspace libraries. We
> > have recently released MVAPICH-0.9.9 beta and planning to release the
> > final version in a week or so. Please download it from the MVAPICHwebpage.
> >
> > http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/projects/mpi-iba/
> >
> > Also, please upgrade the userspace libraries to OFED from the following
> > URL:
> >
> > http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads.htm
> >
> > You may also need to upgrade your firmware for adapters and/or switches:
> >
> > http://www.mellanox.com/support/firmware_download.php
> >
> > Please re-run your applications with the settings above and let us know
> > the outcome of your experimentation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > :- Abhinav
> >
> > * On Apr,1 Matt Funk<matze999 at gmx.net> wrote :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am running a straightforward Finite Difference code on a machine with
> > > infiniband. The Finite Difference code is such that i do the same
> > > computations over and over again. I run the code on 32 procs with
> > > infiniband on a scyld configuration machine.
> > > After running for about 43000 timsteps (for each timestep the same
> > > computations are done) i get the following error:
> > >
> > > [10.1.1.144:18] Fatal Error: Got an asynchronous event: VAPI_PORT_ERROR
> > > (VAPI_EV_SYNDROME_NONE) at line 110 in file viainit.c
> > > [10.1.1.120:5] Got completion with error, code=VAPI_RETRY_EXC_ERR, vendor
> > > code=81, for 10.1.1.144:18
> > > testNodePoisson2d.Linux.g++.g77.MPI32.ex: viacheck.c:2176:
> > > viutil_spinandwaitcq: Assertion `sc->status == VAPI_SUCCESS' failed.
> > >
> > >
> > > I would think that this is a bug in my code but given that it does the
> > > same thing over and over again for an hour and half before croaking i
> > > wouldn't even know where to look for the bug. Anyway, does someone know
> > > what this might indicate?
> > > The MPICH version i am usng is 1.2.5
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > mat
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