Hi -
Have you checked your compiler switches ?? Some have options to
perform IEEE arithmetic, which is supposed to give identical results -
eg
pgf95
-Kieee -Knoieee (default)
Perform floating-point operations in strict conformance with the
IEEE 754 standard. Some optimizations are disabled with -Kieee, and a
more accurate math library is used. The default -Knoieee uses faster
but very slightly less accurate methods.
Lahey ( lf95 ):
--[n]ap
Arithmetic Precision
Compile only. Default: --nap
Specify --ap to guarantee the consistency of REAL and COMPLEX
calculations, regardless
of optimization level; user variables are not assigned to registers...
We have found these necessary for regression testing codes -
otherwise, very minor processor differences will generate different
rounding errors ( without any assistance from MPI )
Cheers,
Jim Conboy ( Culham Ctr for Fusion Energy )
-----Original Message-----
From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On
Behalf Of Ashley Pittman
Sent: 26 April 2010 09:02
To: Open MPI Users
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] open-mpi behaviour on Fedora, Ubuntu,Debian
and CentOS
On 25 Apr 2010, at 22:27, Asad Ali wrote:
> Yes I use different machines such as
>
> machine 1 uses AMD Opterons. (Fedora)
>
> machine 2 and 3 use Intel Xeons. (CentOS)
>
> machine 4 uses slightly older Intel Xeons. (Debian)
>
> Only machine 1 gives correct results. While CentOS and Debian results
> are same but are wrong and different from those of machine 1.
Have you verified the are actually wrong or are they just different?
It's actually perfectly possible for the same program to get different
results from run to run even on the same hardware and the same OS. All
floating point operations by the MPI library are expected to be
deterministic but changing the process layout or and MPI settings can
affect this and of course anything the application does can introduce
differences as well.
Ashley.
--
Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK.
Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing
http://padb.pittman.org.uk
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