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[Josef Zwanziger <jzwanzig@dal.ca>]

What hardware and compiler are you using?

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 10:52, Toby D. Young wrote:
> Hello users,
>
> I am having trouble running my input file on a cluster system with 4
> processors; that's two two-processor machines. I'm quite a newbie at
> abinitp.
>
> I can see from the log file two worrying messages:
>
> p1_7266:  p4_error: alloc_p4_msg failed: 0
>
> which (after some other output) continues with
>
> p2_6059:  p4_error: interrupt SIGx: 13
> p2_6059: (955.289062) net_send: could not write to fd=5, errno = 32
> mpiexec: Warning: tasks 0-1 exited with status 1.
>
> Googling did not give me much help; except for that this may be a
> mpiexec problem writing to disk(?) Has anyone had this problem or know
> how to get round it?
>
> I haven't had any trouble running the parallel tests / tutorials.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Best,
>       Toby
>
>
>
> =====================
> complete message
>
>
> p1_7266: (949.214844) xx_shmalloc: returning NULL; requested 3280880
> bytes p1_7266: (949.214844) p4_shmalloc returning NULL; request =
> 3280880 bytes You can increase the amount of memory by setting the
> environment variable P4_GLOBMEMSIZE (in bytes); the current size is
> 4194304 p1_7266:  p4_error: alloc_p4_msg failed: 0
> =====================
>
>      iter   Etot(hartree)      deltaE(h)  residm     vres2    diffor
> maxfor
>
>  getcut: wavevector=  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  ngfft=  80  80 128
>          ecut(hartree)=     50.000   => boxcut(ratio)=   2.05901
>
>  ewald : nr and ng are    3 and   25
>
>  ITER STEP NUMBER     1
>  vtorho : nnsclo_now=  2, note that nnsclo,dbl_nnsclo,istep=  0 0  1
> -P-0000  leave_test : synchronization done...
>  vtorho: loop on k-points and spins done in parallel
> p2_6059:  p4_error: interrupt SIGx: 13
> p2_6059: (955.289062) net_send: could not write to fd=5, errno = 32
> mpiexec: Warning: tasks 0-1 exited with status 1.

-- 
Josef W. Zwanziger
Canada Research Chair in NMR Studies of Materials
Director, Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Centre
Dept. of Chemistry and Inst. for Research in Materials
Dalhousie University
Halifax B3H 4J3 Canada
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jzwanzig@dal.ca
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On sabbatical January-July 2008
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Mainz, Germany