On Tuesday, 7 August, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Rob Latham wrote: > Hi. Known problem in the ROMIO MPI-IO implementation (which OpenMPI > uses). Been on my list of "things to fix" for a while.
Ok, thanks. I'm glad it's not just us. Is there a timescale for this being fixed? Because if it's a long term thing, I would suggest it might be worth putting a FAQ entry on it or something similar? Especially as it's quite contradictory to most peoples interpretation of the specification. Maybe it's already listed as a known problem somewhere, and I just missed it - it took quite a while before I stopped thinking it was an issue with my code. Is there a better workaround than just splitting the MPI_File_read up into multiple reads of <2^31 bytes? We're actually trying to read in a distributed array, and the workaround awkwardly requires the creation and reading of multiple darray types, each designed to read in the correct number of blocks less than 2^31 bytes. This seems like it could be a bit fragile. Thanks again, Richard
