[Pw_forum] error in the q2r.out

[Axel Kohlmeyer]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, [gb2312] ´÷¼ÑîÚ wrote:

JD> >cheers,
JD> >  axel.
JD> 
JD> I have the same problem when i run mpirun -np 4 ph.x -npool 2 < *.ph.in . But if i

please when running with mpirun you should use the -in flag instead
of redirecting input from stdin (and using filename globbing, i.e. 
filename expansion with *, is even more problematic as it may redirect
multiple files). not all MPI packages replicate stdin to all nodes.

JD> run mpirun -np 4 ph.x -npool 1 < *.ph.in  or mpirun -np 4 ph.x < *.ph.in, the
JD> error would disappear. Is it the meaning of the memory error? what did you mean

do generate a CRASH file? have you looked at it? it probably means, 
that the calculation that you were asking for, does not support 
parallelization over k-point pools.

 JD> "in serial"?

"in serial" means "not parallel"

there is no memory error. when your remote processes die,
your local process cannot write to their corresponding
sockets anymore. this is one of the (many) drawbacks of
using MPICH: the error reporting of this MPI packages
is not very good and frequently it "eats" the last lines
of output of the crashing application (which would be 
essential to understand what is going on).

cheers,
   axel.

JD> 
JD> Thanks,
JD> Jiayu
JD> 
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JD> ------------------------------
JD> Jiayu Dai
JD> National University of Defense Technology, P R China
JD> 

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