BTW: could you send me your sample test code?
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > I regularly build on Mavericks and run without problem, though I haven't > tried a parallel IO app. I'll give yours a try later, when I get back to my > Mac. > > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ronald Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> wrote: > >> I have been struggling trying to get a usable build of openmpi on Mac OSX >> Mavericks (10.9.1). I can get openmpi to configure and build without >> error, but have problems after that which depend on the openmpi version. >> >> With 1.6.5, make check fails the opal_datatype_test, ddt_test, and >> ddt_raw tests. The various atomic_* tests pass. See checklogs_1.6.5, >> attached as a .gz file. >> >> Following suggestions from openmpi discussions I tried openmpi version >> 1.7.4rc1. In this case make check indicates all tests passed. But when I >> proceeded to try to build a parallel code (parallel HDF5) it failed. >> Following an email exchange with the HDF5 support people, they suggested I >> try to compile and run the attached bit of simple code Sample_mpio.c (which >> they supplied) which does not use any HDF5, but just attempts a parallel >> write to a file and parallel read. That test failed when requesting more >> than 1 processor -- which they say indicates a failure of the openmpi >> installation. The error message was: >> >> MPI_INIT: argc 1 >> MPI_INIT: argc 1 >> Testing simple C MPIO program with 2 processes accessing file >> ./mpitest.data >> (Filename can be specified via program argument) >> Proc 0: hostname=Ron-Cohen-MBP.local >> Proc 1: hostname=Ron-Cohen-MBP.local >> MPI_BARRIER[0]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD >> MPI_BARRIER[1]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD >> Proc 0: MPI_File_open with MPI_MODE_EXCL failed (MPI_ERR_FILE: invalid >> file) >> MPI_ABORT[0]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD errorcode 1 >> MPI_BCAST[1]: buffer 7fff5a483048 count 1 datatype MPI_INT root 0 comm >> MPI_COMM_WORLD >> >> I then went back to my openmpi directories and tried running some of the >> individual tests in the test and examples directories. In particular in >> test/class I found one test that seem to not be run as part of make check >> which failed, even with one processor; this is opal_bitmap. Not sure if >> this is because 1.7.4rc1 is incomplete, or there is something wrong with >> the installation, or maybe a 32 vs 64 bit thing? The error message is >> >> mpirun detected that one or more processes exited with non-zero status, >> thus causing the job to be terminated. The first process to do so was: >> >> Process name: [[48805,1],0] >> Exit code: 255 >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> More generally has anyone out there gotten an openmpi build on Mavericks >> to work with sufficient success that they can get the attached >> Sample_mpio.c (or better yet, parallel HDF5) to build? >> >> Details: Running Mac OS X 10.9.1 on a mid-2009 Macbook pro with 4 GB >> memory; tried openmpi 1.6.5 and 1.7.4rc1. Built openmpi against the stock >> gcc that comes with XCode 5.0.2, and gfortran 4.9.0. >> >> Files attached: config.log.gz, openmpialllog.gz (output of running >> ompi_info --all), checklog2.gz (output of make.check in top openmpi >> directory). >> >> I am not attaching logs of make and install since those seem to have been >> successful, but can generate those if that would be helpful. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> > >
