Re: [OMPI users] writev error: Bad address

2014-02-06 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > Yes. And it seems the recommended one for this purpose is 1.7, not 1.6. 1.7.4 is our newest feature series release. 1.6.5 is the most recent super-stable release. We should be rolling 1.7.x to 1.8 within a few months. > What should happen if

Re: [OMPI users] writev error: Bad address

2014-02-06 Thread Ralph Castain
On Feb 6, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > On 2/6/2014 11:08 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: >> In addition to what Ralph said (just install OMPI under your $HOME, at least >> for testing purposes), here's what we say about version compatibility: >> >> 1. OMPI started providing ABI g

Re: [OMPI users] writev error: Bad address

2014-02-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On 2/6/2014 11:08 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: In addition to what Ralph said (just install OMPI under your $HOME, at least for testing purposes), here's what we say about version compatibility: 1. OMPI started providing ABI guarantees with v1.3.2. The ABI guarantee we provide is that a

Re: [OMPI users] writev error: Bad address

2014-02-06 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
In addition to what Ralph said (just install OMPI under your $HOME, at least for testing purposes), here's what we say about version compatibility: 1. OMPI started providing ABI guarantees with v1.3.2. The ABI guarantee we provide is that a 1.x and 1.(x+1) series will be ABI compatible, where x

Re: [OMPI users] writev error: Bad address

2014-02-06 Thread Ralph Castain
One thing commonly done in this situation is for a user to simply download the OMPI tarball and install it in their own home directory, then link R etc to the updated version. This avoids impacting everyone else on the system and is a low-risk way of trying to see if the update fixes the problem

Re: [OMPI users] writev error: Bad address

2014-02-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On 2/6/2014 3:24 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: Have you tried upgrading to a newer version of Open MPI? The 1.4.x series is several generations old. Open MPI 1.7.4 was just released yesterday. It's on a cluster running Debian squeeze, with perhaps some upgrades to wheezy coming. However

Re: [OMPI users] writev error: Bad address

2014-02-06 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Have you tried upgrading to a newer version of Open MPI? The 1.4.x series is several generations old. Open MPI 1.7.4 was just released yesterday. On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > On 1/31/2014 1:08 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: >> I am getting the following error, amidst many success

Re: [OMPI users] GNU 4.8.x and (no) mpi_f08 module

2014-02-06 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
On Feb 6, 2014, at 4:09 AM, Christoph Niethammer wrote: > I am wondering if it is possible to get a working mpi_f08 module with Open > MPI >=1.7.4 and GNU 4.8.x compiler. It is not, sorry. > Unfortunately configure (without additional options beside --prefix) decides > to not build the mpi_f0

[OMPI users] GNU 4.8.x and (no) mpi_f08 module

2014-02-06 Thread Christoph Niethammer
Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to get a working mpi_f08 module with Open MPI >=1.7.4 and GNU 4.8.x compiler. Unfortunately configure (without additional options beside --prefix) decides to not build the mpi_f08 module: configure:56605: checking if building Fortran 'use mpi' bindings co