Hi Ali After conferring with my colleagues, it appears we don't have the cycles right now to really support AIX. As you have noted, the problem is with the io forwarding subsystem - a considerable issue.
We will revise the web site to indicate this situation. We will provide an announcement of any change in that status. Thanks Ralph On 2/7/07 1:18 PM, "Nader Ahmadi" <a_na...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > We are in the process to decide, if we should use Open MPI in an AIX > environment. > > Our in-house testing indicates that OMPI (V 1.1.x and V 1.2.x) stdio is broken > under AIX. > > At this point, I am trying to find out if there is a fix or work-around for > this problem. I have put another > > posting (see attached). One recommendation was try pre-release of V 1.2, which > didn't make any difference. > > I am hoping that an OMPI developer or someone from IBM come up with a > solution. > > Open MPI documentation, indicates that AIX is being supported, with limited > testing before each release. > > What is limited testing? Does it mean, Configure, Install and running "Hello > World" on one node? > > In short, we did configure and installed V 1.1.x as well as V1.2.x, but > attempt to running > > a simple test such as "mpirun -np 1 hostname", fails, see attached for more > details. > > I have eight nodes IBM systems, I could run any test, to solve this problem. > > Thanks for your comments > > Ali, > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > From Previous Posting on OMPI user's group > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------------------- > > I have installed Open MPI 1.1.2 on IBM AIX 5.3 cluster. It looks like > > terminal output is broken. There are a few entry in the OpenMPI archive for > this problem, > > with no suggested solution or real work around. > > I am putting this posting with hope to get some advise for a work around or > solution. > > #mpirun -np 1 hostname > > No out put, piping the command to "cat" or "more" generate no out put as well. > > The only way to get an output from this command is to add --debug-daemons > > #mpirun -np 1 --debug-daemons hostname > > Even this debug option is not working for a real application which generate > several output. > > Looking forward for any comments. > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
