[Users] ET test failures on Stampede

[Steven R. Brandt]

On 10/30/2014 01:30 PM, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Steven R. Brandt <sbrandt at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
>> On 10/30/2014 01:07 PM, Erik Schnetter wrote:
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> As a side remark, the executables created on Trestles are not
>>> runnable. The test cases that nevertheless succeed on Trestles (!) are
>>> probably not interesting.
>> How does the test succeed if the executable can't run?
> That's the question.
>
> Cactus doesn't test whether the executable runs, it tests whether
> every generated output file is correct. Maybe there are zero output
> files.
I thought it also checked exit code.

Cheers,
Steve
>
> -erik
>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>> -erik
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>>>> On 30 Oct 2014, at 15:03, Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've begun to run the automated tests for the ET on our production
>>>>> machines. Things look very good almost everywhere, except on Stampede,
>>>>> one of the machines that is most important to us. It seems that there
>>>>> are many test failures for GRHydro, and these seem to be caused by
>>>>> segfaults. Does anybody volunteer to investigate?
>>>> I don't know anything about the problems with GRHydro.
>>>>
>>>> I was having problems a while back with the current simfactory default version of mvapich2, and TACC support suggested I try the mvapich2-x version.  The problem I saw was the MPI reductions would hang.  I have been using that for a few months with no problems.  The required change to the optionlist is:
>>>>
>>>>> < MPI_DIR  = /opt/apps/intel13/mvapich2/1.9
>>>>> ---
>>>>>> MPI_DIR  = /home1/apps/intel13/mvapich2-x/2.0b
>>>>>> MPI_LIB_DIRS = /home1/apps/intel13/mvapich2-x/2.0b/lib64
>>>> At least, this was before the changes to the MPI thorn.  It's possible that this is no longer enough.
>>>>
>>>> Should we change to this version in simfactory for the release?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ian Hinder
>>>> http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder
>>>>
>>>
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