All,
I have some sample code that has a syntax message and then an MPI_Abort call if
the program is run without the required parameters.
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if (!rank) {
i = 1;
while ((i < argc) && strcmp("-input", *argv)) {
i++;
argv++;
}
if (i >= argc) {
fprintf(stderr, "\n*# Usage: mpicpy -input <filename> \n\n");
MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
}
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This is all well and good and it does provide the usage line, but it also
throws quite a message in addition:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 0 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
with errorcode 1.
NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on
exactly when Open MPI kills them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mpirun has exited due to process rank 0 with PID 40209 on
node compute-3-3 exiting improperly. There are two reasons this could occur:
1. this process did not call "init" before exiting, but others in
the job did. This can cause a job to hang indefinitely while it waits
for all processes to call "init". By rule, if one process calls "init",
then ALL processes must call "init" prior to termination.
2. this process called "init", but exited without calling "finalize".
By rule, all processes that call "init" MUST call "finalize" prior to
exiting or it will be considered an "abnormal termination"
This may have caused other processes in the application to be
terminated by signals sent by mpirun (as reported here).
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Is there a proper way to use MPI_Abort such that it will not trigger such a
message?
It almost seems that MPI_Abort should be calling MPI_Finalize as a rule, or
openmpi should recognize MPI_Abort is the exception to requiring MPI_Finalize.
Brian Andrus
ITACS/Research Computing
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California
voice: 831-656-6238
