Re: [OMPI users] mpirun crashes randomly on prolonged run of calculation on Amber 10

2015-03-11 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Two quick observations: 1. Open MPI 1.6.2 is pretty old, and it's not the last release in the 1.6.x series. If you can, update to Open MPI 1.6.5, which has lots of bug fixes over 1.6.2. Even better, upgrade to Open MPI 1.8.4 (i.e., the latest stable release), which has oodles of bug fixes and

Re: [OMPI users] disappearance of the memory registration error in 1.8.x?

2015-03-11 Thread Joshua Ladd
Hi, Greg We changed the default behavior to essentially assume folks were running with current MOFED/OFED drivers which allow one to register twice the amount of physical memory. If you are running OFED less than 2.0 or using older drivers, then you should set the following mca parameter: -mca bt

[OMPI users] mpirun crashes randomly on prolonged run of calculation on Amber 10

2015-03-11 Thread Saad Raza
Dear all, I do not know whether I should ask this on openmpi forum or Amber forum but mpirun seems to crash randomly when they are subjected to long calculation. I have build openmpi from openmpi-1.6.2. I have used the following commands for configuring and installation: ./configure --prefix=/us