[Wien] Error in parallel execution

Laurence Marks L-marks at northwestern.edu
Tue Jul 27 16:27:26 CEST 2010


I doubt (although I may be wrong) that this has anything to do with
the OS. Do you have -traceback in your compile options? This will give
information as to which program this is happening in. Also, are you
running mpi or not?

2010/7/27 Marcos Veríssimo Alves <marcos.verissimo.alves at gmail.com>:
> Hi Stefaan and Laurence,
> @Stefaan: I will try it.
> @Laurence: it's the latest version, which I have downloaded about two weeks
> ago. Hope this helps.
> Thanks,
> Marcos
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Laurence Marks <L-marks at northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> Is this the latest version, or an older one? Some changes were made in
>> the error file access in the latest version for mpi reasons.
>>
>> 2010/7/27 Marcos Veríssimo Alves <marcos.verissimo.alves at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I am experiencing a problem in the execution in parallel over k-points.
>> >
>> > I have compiled the code successfully in a cluster running Debian Linux
>> > and
>> > with SGEEE as the queue system using ssh as the means to launch the
>> > instances on the remote nodes, with /bin/bash as the shell. My script
>> > successfully creates a .machines file and when I run runsp_lapw -p -NI
>> > -cc
>> > 0.0001, the process dies. This is because, for some reason, lapw1para is
>> > not
>> > being able to write to the up(dn)lapw1_*.error files:
>> >
>> > forrtl: severe (47): write to READONLY file, unit 99, file
>> > /afs/atc.unican.es/u/m/mverissi/WIEN2k/sro1sto6/uplapw1_1.error
>> >
>> > And the same happens to the dnlapw1_*.error files.
>> >
>> > lapw0, on the other hand, runs fine. I have set up parallel execution
>> > successfully on my dual-core desktop using ssh, using pretty much the
>> > same
>> > stuff, and it runs perfectly well.
>> >
>> > Now, I have changed the write permissions of the directory (and all the
>> > files) with chmod -R ugo+rw /afs/atc.unican.es/u..., but to no avail.
>> > Has
>> > anyone experienced any problem like this before? Could there be any
>> > known
>> > (but obscure) reason why lapw1para would not be able to write to its
>> > files,
>> > but lapw0para would?
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Marcos
>> >
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Laurence Marks
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall
2220 N Campus Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820
email: L-marks at northwestern dot edu
Web: www.numis.northwestern.edu
Chair, Commission on Electron Crystallography of IUCR
www.numis.northwestern.edu/
Electron crystallography is the branch of science that uses electron
scattering and imaging to study the structure of matter.


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