I do note that you are using an ancient version of Open MPI (1.2.8).  Is there 
any way you can upgrade to a (much) later version, such as 1.4.3?  That might 
improve your TCP connectivity -- we made improvements in those portions of the 
code over the years.

On Apr 27, 2011, at 8:09 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:

> 
> On Apr 27, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Sindhi, Waris PW wrote:
> 
>> No we do not have a firewall turned on. I can run smaller 96 slave cases
>> on ln10 and ln13 included on the slavelist. 
>> 
>> Could there be another reason for this to fail ? 
> 
> What is in "procgroup"? Is it a single application?
> 
> Offhand, there is nothing in OMPI that would explain the problem. The only 
> possibility I can think of would be if your "procgroup" file contains more 
> than 128 applications in it.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Waris Sindhi
>> High Performance Computing, TechApps
>> Pratt & Whitney, UTC
>> (860)-565-8486
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ralph Castain
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:18 PM
>> To: Open MPI Users
>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI out of band TCP retry exceeded
>> 
>> Perhaps a firewall? All it is telling you is that mpirun couldn't
>> establish TCP communications with the daemon on ln10.
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Sindhi, Waris PW wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>   I am getting a "oob-tcp: Communication retries exceeded" error
>>> message when I run a 238 MPI slave code
>>> 
>>> 
>>> /opt/openmpi/i386/bin/mpirun -mca btl_openib_verbose 1 --mca btl ^tcp
>>> --mca pls_ssh_agent ssh -mca oob_tcp_peer_retries 1000 --prefix
>>> /usr/lib/openmpi/1.2.8-gcc/bin -np 239 --app procgroup
>>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> --
>>> mpirun was unable to start the specified application as it encountered
>>> an error:
>>> 
>>> Error name: Unknown error: 1
>>> Node: ln10
>>> 
>>> when attempting to start process rank 234.
>>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> --
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Unreachable in file
>>> orted/orted_comm.c at line 130
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Unreachable in file
>>> orted/orted_comm.c at line 130
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> [ln13:27867] [[61748,0],0]-[[61748,0],32] oob-tcp: Communication
>> retries
>>> exceeded.  Can not communicate with peer
>>> 
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> 
>>> Waris Sindhi
>>> High Performance Computing, TechApps
>>> Pratt & Whitney, UTC
>>> (860)-565-8486
>>> 
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