[Pw_forum] error in running pw.x command

Bahadır salmankurt bsalmankurt at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 09:57:26 CEST 2015


Dear Mohaddeseh et co,

installing one of the old version of mpi could solve the problem.

2015-07-20 10:06 GMT+03:00 Ari P Seitsonen <Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi>:

>
> Dear Mohaddeseh et co,
>
>   Just a note: I used to have such problems when I had compiled with
> MKL-ScaLAPACK of old version, indeed around 11.1, when I ran with more than
> four cores. I think I managed to run when I disabled ScaLAPACK. Of course
> this might be fully unrelated to your problem.
>
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> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:
>
>  This is not a QE problem: the fortran code knows nothing about nodes and
>> cores. It's the software setup for parallel execution on your machine that
>> has a problem.
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:25 PM, mohaddeseh abbasnejad <
>> m.abbasnejad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>       Dear all,
>>
>> I have recently installed PWscf (version 5.1) on our cluster (4 nodes, 32
>> cores).
>> Ifort & mkl version 11.1 has been installed.
>> When I run pw.x command on every node individually, for both the
>> following command, it will work properly.
>> 1- /opt/exp_soft/espresso-5.1/bin/pw.x -in scf.in
>> 2- mpirun -n 4 /opt/exp_soft/espresso-5.1/bin/pw.x -in scf.in
>> However, when I use the following command (again for each of them,
>> separately),
>> 3- mpirun -n 8 /opt/exp_soft/espresso-5.1/bin/pw.x -in scf.in
>> it gives me such an error:
>>
>> [cluster:14752] *** Process received signal ***
>> [cluster:14752] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
>> [cluster:14752] Signal code:  (128)
>> [cluster:14752] Failing at address: (nil)
>> [cluster:14752] [ 0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0() [0x3a78c0f710]
>> [cluster:14752] [ 1]
>> /opt/intel/Compiler/11.1/064/mkl/lib/em64t/libmkl_mc3.so(mkl_blas_zdotc+0x79)
>> [0x2b5e8e37d4f9]
>> [cluster:14752] *** End of error message ***
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> mpirun noticed that process rank 4 with PID 14752 on node
>> cluster.khayam.local exited on signal 11 (Segmentation fault).
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> This error also exists when I use all the node with each other in
>> parallel mode (using the following command):
>> 4- mpirun -n 32 -hostfile testhost /opt/exp_soft/espresso-5.1/bin/pw.x
>> -in scf.in
>> The error:
>>
>> [cluster:14838] *** Process received signal ***
>> [cluster:14838] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
>> [cluster:14838] Signal code:  (128)
>> [cluster:14838] Failing at address: (nil)
>> [cluster:14838] [ 0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0() [0x3a78c0f710]
>> [cluster:14838] [ 1]
>> /opt/intel/Compiler/11.1/064/mkl/lib/em64t/libmkl_mc3.so(mkl_blas_zdotc+0x79)
>> [0x2b04082cf4f9]
>> [cluster:14838] *** End of error message ***
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> mpirun noticed that process rank 24 with PID 14838 on node
>> cluster.khayam.local exited on signal 11 (Segmentation fault).
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mohaddeseh
>>
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>>
>> Mohaddeseh Abbasnejad,
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