Re: [OMPI users] MPI_File_write hangs on NFS-mounted filesystem

2013-11-11 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
FWIW, I tried this sample program on OMPI 1.6.x and 1.7.x, and it worked for me on NFS. On Nov 7, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote: > That's a relatively old version of OMPI. Maybe try the latest > release? That's always the safe bet since the issue might have been > fixed already. > > I

Re: [OMPI users] MPI_File_write hangs on NFS-mounted filesystem

2013-11-07 Thread Gus Correa
Hi Steven, Dmytry Not sure if this web page is still valid or totally out of date, but there it goes anyway, in the hopes that it may help: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/mpich1-old/docs/install/node38.htm On the other hand, one expert seems to dismiss NFS for paralllel IO: http:

Re: [OMPI users] MPI_File_write hangs on NFS-mounted filesystem

2013-11-07 Thread Jeff Hammond
That's a relatively old version of OMPI. Maybe try the latest release? That's always the safe bet since the issue might have been fixed already. I recall that OMPI uses ROMIO so you might try to reproduce with MPICH so you can report it to the people that wrote the MPI-IO code. Of course, this mi

Re: [OMPI users] MPI_File_write hangs on NFS-mounted filesystem

2013-11-07 Thread Dmitry N. Mikushin
Not sure if this is related, but: I've seen a case of performance degradation on NFS and Lustre when writing NetCDF files. The reason was that the file was filled with a loop writing one 4-byte record at once. Performance became close to local hard drive, when I simply introduced buffering of reco

Re: [OMPI users] MPI_File_Write

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Latham
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 03:52:05PM +, Kharche, Sanjay wrote: > > Dear All > > I am sure this issue has been discussed before on the forum, but I will > appreciate your comments. > > I have a package that tries to do parallel file output using MPI_File_Write: > > /* Write to file. */ > mp