Re: [OMPI users] Any scientific application heavily using MPI_Barrier?

2009-03-06 Thread Ganesh
Hi Dick, Jeff paraphrased an unnamed source as suggesting that: "any MPI program that relies on a barrier for correctness is an incorrect MPI application." . That is probably too strong. How about this assertion? *If there are no wildcard receives - every MPI_Barrier call is semantically i

Re: [OMPI users] Run-time problem

2009-03-06 Thread justin oppenheim
Please let me go over it again, and maybe it helps clarifying things a bit better. All the OS involved are Suse 10.3. I have a place for the the installed programs, say /programs. In /programs I have installed openmpi and my mpi program, say my_mpi_program.  When I am in the working directory,

Re: [OMPI users] Any scientific application heavily using MPI_Barrier?

2009-03-06 Thread Richard Treumann
Jeff paraphrased an unnamed source as suggesting that: "any MPI program that relies on a barrier for correctness is an incorrect MPI application." . That is probably too strong. How about this assertion? If there are no wildcard receives - every MPI_Barrier call is semantically irrelevant. It

Re: [OMPI users] threading bug?

2009-03-06 Thread Douglas Guptill
I once had a crash in libpthread something like the one below. The very un-obvious cause was a stack overflow on subroutine entry - large automatic array. HTH, Douglas. On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:04:20PM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Feb 27, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Mahmoud Payami wrote: > > >I am u

Re: [OMPI users] Any scientific application heavily using MPI_Barrier?

2009-03-06 Thread Ashley Pittman
On 5 Mar 2009, at 15:25, Jeff Squyres wrote: I don't remember who originally said it, but I've repeated the statement: any MPI program that relies on a barrier for correctness is an incorrect MPI application. I'm not 100% sure this holds although it's a good rule of thumb, I've certainly wri