[mvapich-discuss] mvapich2-0.9.8 blacs problems

[wei huang]

Hi,

Thanks for letting us know the problem. We have generated a patch to
address this problem, and have applied it to both the trunk and our svn
0.9.8 branch.

Please feel free to update your local version.

Thanks.

Regards,
Wei Huang

774 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Ave,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Ohio State University
OH 43210
Tel: (614)292-8501


On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Bas van der Vlies wrote:

> Dhabaleswar Panda wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >>>>>  SARA is testing the openib stack with mvapich2.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  We have problems with installing the blacs library
> >>>>> (www.netlib.org/blacs) it compiles and links correct, some tests namely:
> >>>>>   * The BSBR test with double precision fails with certain topologies.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  We tried the GNU compilers (gcc, g77) and the INTEL compilers (icc,
> >>>>> ifort).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please help?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> PS)
> >>>>> On our topspin/cisco infiniband stack with their mpi implementation
> >>>>> there are no problems.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Just an update i tried mvapich-0.9.9-beta with openib and blacs. and
> >>>> this runs without any problems.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> We also tried the MPICH2 version 1.0.5p3 without any problems.  I will
> >>> now test the mvapich2 trunk version and i will let you know.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >> Just tested the MVAPICH2 trunk version and this fails also at the double
> >> precision tests. I am clueless at this point. Are there sites using
> >> blacs/scalapack with mvapich2?
> >
> > Thanks for reporting these issues. Since yesterday, we have been
> > looking at this issue. We hope to keep you updated on our findings and
> > fixes as soon as possible.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
>
> Thanks we also trying to find it. But first i have to roll back to
> mvapich1 to solve the problem
>
>
>
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