Best guess is that there is some issue with getting TCP sockets on the system - once the procs are launched, they need to open a TCP socket and communicate back to mpirun. If the socket is "stuck" waiting to complete the open, things will hang.
You might check to ensure there isn't some security setting in place that protects sockets - something like iptables, for example. On Apr 10, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Rodrigo Gómez Vázquez <rodrigo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am having troubles with the program in a simulation server. > The system consists of several processors but all in the same node (more > information of the specs. is in the attachments). > The system is quite new (few months) and a user reported me that it was not > possible to run simulations on multiple processors in parallel. > We are using it for CFD-Simulations with OpenFOAM, which comes along with an > own 1.5.3-version of OpenMPI (for more details you can look inside the > "ThirdParty software folder" following this link: > http://www.openfoam.org/archive/2.1.1/download/source.php). The OS is an > Ubuntu 12.04 Server distro (see uname.out in the attachments). > He tried to start a simulation in parallel using the following command: > > ~: mpirun -np 4 <solver-with-its-corresponding-parameters> > > As a result the simulation does not start and there is no error message. It > looks like the program is just waiting/looking for something. We can see > shortly the 4 processes with their PIDs in the "top" processes list, but only > for few tenths of second and with 0% use of CPU and 0.0% use of memory as > well. In order to recover the command terminal we have to kill the process. > > The same happens with the "hello" scripts that come along with the OpenMPI's > sources: > > :~$mpicc hello_c.c -o hello > :~$mpirun -np 4 hello > ... and here it hangs again. > > I tried to execute other simpler processes, as recommended to check the > installation. Let's see: > > :~$mpirun -np 4 hostname > simserver > simserver > simserver > simserver > :~$ > > Works, as well as "ompi_info" does. > > Since we use the same OpenFOAM version without problems in several computers > over ubuntu-based distros, I supposed that there must be any kind of > incompatibility problem, due to the hardware, but... > > Anyway, I repeated the tests with the OpenMPI version from the ubuntu > repositories (1.4.3) and got the same result. > > It would be wonderful if anyone could give me a hint. > > I am afraid, it may result a complicated issue, so please, let me know > whatever relevant information missing. > > Thanks in advance, guys > > Rodrigo (Europe, GMT+2:00) > <openmpi1.4.3_ompi_info.out.bz2><uname.out><cat_-proc-cpuinfo.out.bz2>_______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
