As a pure guess, it might actually be this one:
- Fix to detect and avoid overlapping memcpy(). Thanks to
Francis Pellegrini for identifying the issue.
We're actually very close to releasing 1.4.4 -- using the latest RC should be
pretty safe.
On Sep 23, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Paul Kapinos wrote:
> Hi Open MPI volks,
>
> we see some quite strange effects with our installations of Open MPI 1.4.3
> with Intel 12.x compilers, which makes us puzzling: Different programs
> reproducibly deadlock or die with errors alike the below-listed ones.
>
> Some of the errors looks alike programming issue at first look (well, a
> deadlock *is* usually a programming error) but we do not believe it is so:
> the errors arise in many well-tested codes including HPL (*) and only with a
> special compiler + Open MPI version (Intel 12.x compiler + open MPI 1.4.3)
> and only on special number of processes (usually high ones). For example, HPL
> reproducible deadlocks with 72 procs and dies with error message #2 with 384
> processes.
>
> All this errors seem to be somehow related to MPI communicators; and 1.4.4rc3
> and in 1.5.3 and 1.5.4 seem not to have this problem. Also 1.4.3 if using
> together with Intel 11.x compielr series seem to be unproblematic. So
> probably this:
>
> (1.4.4 release notes:)
> - Fixed a segv in MPI_Comm_create when called with GROUP_EMPTY.
> Thanks to Dominik Goeddeke for finding this.
>
> is also fix for our issues? Or maybe not, because 1.5.3 is _older_ than this
> fix?
>
> As far as we workarounded the problem by switching our production to 1.5.3
> this issue is not a "burning" one; but I decieded still to post this because
> any issue on such fundamental things may be interesting for developers.
>
> Best wishes,
> Paul Kapinos
>
>
> (*) http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/
>
> ################################################################
> Fatal error in MPI_Comm_size: Invalid communicator, error stack:
> MPI_Comm_size(111): MPI_Comm_size(comm=0x0, size=0x6f4a90) failed
> MPI_Comm_size(69).: Invalid communicator
>
> ################################################################
> [linuxbdc05.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE:23219] *** An error occurred in MPI_Comm_split
> [linuxbdc05.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE:23219] *** on communicator MPI COMMUNICATOR 3
> SPLIT FROM 0
> [linuxbdc05.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE:23219] *** MPI_ERR_IN_STATUS: error code in
> status
> [linuxbdc05.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE:23219] *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (your MPI job
> will now abort)
>
> ################################################################
> forrtl: severe (71): integer divide by zero
> Image PC Routine Line Source
> libmpi.so.0 00002AAAAD9EDF52 Unknown Unknown Unknown
> libmpi.so.0 00002AAAAD9EE45D Unknown Unknown Unknown
> libmpi.so.0 00002AAAAD9C3375 Unknown Unknown Unknown
> libmpi_f77.so.0 00002AAAAD75C37A Unknown Unknown Unknown
> vasp_mpi_gamma 000000000057E010 Unknown Unknown Unknown
> vasp_mpi_gamma 000000000059F636 Unknown Unknown Unknown
> vasp_mpi_gamma 0000000000416C5A Unknown Unknown Unknown
> vasp_mpi_gamma 0000000000A62BEE Unknown Unknown Unknown
> libc.so.6 0000003EEB61EC5D Unknown Unknown Unknown
> vasp_mpi_gamma 0000000000416A29 Unknown Unknown Unknown
>
>
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> RWTH Aachen University, Center for Computing and Communication
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