[mpich-discuss] Fatal error in PMPI_Barrier: A process has failed, error stack:

Balaji, Pavan balaji at anl.gov
Thu Mar 27 01:02:56 CDT 2014


Are both the nodes similar in architecture and OS configuration?

Are the /etc/hosts files on both machines consistent?

  — Pavan

On Mar 26, 2014, at 9:01 PM, Tony Ladd <tladd at che.ufl.edu> wrote:

> Rajeev
> 
> There is a firewall on svr but its configured to accept all packets on the interface connected to the internal domain (where pc5 lives). I had already checked that stopping iptables off made no difference, but I just tried it again on the cpi example. The result was the same.
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> On 03/26/2014 09:45 PM, Rajeev Thakur wrote:
>> Is there a firewall on either machine that is in the way of communication?
>> 
>> Rajeev
>> 
>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Tony Ladd <tladd at che.ufl.edu>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> No - you get the same error - it looks as if process 1 (on the remote node) is not starting
>>> 
>>> svr:tladd(netbench)> mpirun -n 2 -f hosts /global/usr/src/mpich-3.0.4/examples/cpi
>>> Process 0 of 2 is on svr.che.ufl.edu
>>> Fatal error in PMPI_Reduce: A process has failed, error stack:
>>> PMPI_Reduce(1217)...............: MPI_Reduce(sbuf=0x7fff30ecced8, rbuf=0x7fff30ecced0, count=1, MPI_DOUBLE,
>>> 
>>> But if I reverse the order in the host file (pc5 first and then svr) apparently both processes start
>>> 
>>> svr:tladd(netbench)> mpirun -n 2 -f hosts /global/usr/src/mpich-3.0.4/examples/cpi
>>> Process 1 of 2 is on svr.che.ufl.edu
>>> Process 0 of 2 is on pc5
>>> Fatal error in PMPI_Reduce: A process has failed, error stack:
>>> PMPI_Reduce(1217)...............: MPI_Reduce(sbuf=0x7fff4d776348, rbuf=0x7fff4d776340, count=1, MPI_DOUBLE,
>>> 
>>> But with the same result in the end.
>>> 
>>> Tony
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 03/26/2014 08:18 PM, Rajeev Thakur wrote:
>>>> Does the cpi example run across two machines?
>>>> 
>>>> Rajeev
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Tony Ladd <tladd at che.ufl.edu>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Rajeev
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry about that. I was switching back and forth from openmpi to mpich. But it does not make a difference. Here is a clean log from a fresh terminal - no mention of openmpi
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tony
>>>>> 
>>>>> PS - its a CentOS 6.5install - should have mentioned it before.
>>>>> 
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