Hello Eugene: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:20:08AM -0800, Eugene Loh wrote: > Jeff Squyres wrote: > >> I think Eugene will have to answer this one -- Eugeue? >> >> On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:35 AM, John R. Cary wrote: >> >>> From http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/branches/v1.3/NEWS I see: >>> >>> - Many updates and fixes to the (non-default) "sm" collective >>> component (i.e., native shared memory MPI collective operations). >>> >>> Will this fix the problem noted at >>> >>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2043 >> > I've been devoting a lot of time to this one. There seems (to me) to be > something very goofy going on here, but I've whittled it down a lot. I > hope soon to have a simple demonstration of the problem so that it'll be > possible to decide if there is a problem with OMPI, GCC 4.4.0, both, or > something else. So, I've made a lot of progress, but you're asking how > much longer until it's solved. Different question. I don't know. This > is not a straightforward problem.
I love that answer. Sincerely. It should be taught in schools. It should be part of every programmer's toolkit. Douglas.