[Users] Users Digest, Vol 88, Issue 3

Mikael Sahrling msahrling at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 5 13:08:10 CDT 2017


New user experience:

I had only a little trouble. I had not used the mpi tools before and didn't realize I should launch the sim with the mpirun command. I missed it in the documentation at the time but someone pointed this out to me and since then I haven't had much difficulty. I run on a single Linux box w/ 128GB ram and I had some hardware issue initially that I thought was software related. 

The tool seems to work well. I have also toyed with the LORENE code and things seems to be working. Once in a while there are missing code snippets that are not publicly available but that's understandable. I haven't tried the latest release yet but I hope to be at the workshop in august and learn more!

Mikael 

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>   1. Improving the new user experience (Ian Hinder)
>   2. Re: meeting minutes for 2017-07-03 (Roland Haas)
>   3. Re: meeting minutes for 2017-07-03 (Roland Haas)
>   4. Re: meeting minutes for 2017-07-03 (Frank Loeffler)
>   5. Re: meeting minutes for 2017-07-03 (Roland Haas)
>   6. Re: meeting minutes for 2017-07-03 (Frank Loeffler)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 23:43:11 +0200
> From: Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de>
> Subject: [Users] Improving the new user experience
> To: Einstein Toolkit Users <users at einsteintoolkit.org>
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> Hi,
> 
> I think it would be good to try to make an effort to make it easier for new users to get up and running with the ET.  I am thinking of spending time on this at the workshop in August, and would like to ask for suggestions (and people who might want to help!).  I have started a wiki page for this project, and added the first things that came to my mind:
> 
>    https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Improving_the_new_user_experience
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> Please feel free to add to this, or just reply to this email with suggestions.
> 
> Especially if you are a new user, or if you have run workshop sessions with new users, it would be good to hear from you!  What are the major obstacles?  
> 
> Alternatively, if you found everything to be smooth and easy, please also speak up!
> 
> -- 
> Ian Hinder
> http://members.aei.mpg.de/ianhin
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> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 08:30:06 -0500
> From: Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Users] meeting minutes for 2017-07-03
> To: <users at einsteintoolkit.org>
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> Hello all,
> 
> for those of you interested in meeting up for the testsuite status and
> release, let's meet in the ET phone call hangout:
> 
> https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/5jduv5dbzvhkhf7opttodyqlduu
> 
> Yours,
> Roland
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> you can find a first batch of testsuite results here:
>> 
>> http://einsteintoolkit.org/testsuite_results/index.php
>> 
>> so far nothing major, most of the failures are the usual suspects.
>> 
>> Cori, comet and edison failed to run anything which could be a
>> simfactory issue or me not setting eg allocations correctly.
>> 
>> The test failures should be investigated and compared to the set of
>> failures for the last release. I cannot look at all of them, so people
>> need to volunteer to look at some of those.
>> 
>> * bethe
>> * bluewaters
>> * minerva
>> * qb
>> 
>> qb is at LSU, bluewaters at NCSA, minerva at AEI and bethe at Caltech.
>> 
>> Yours,
>> Roland
>> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 09:12:55 -0500
> From: Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Users] meeting minutes for 2017-07-03
> To: <users at einsteintoolkit.org>
> Cc: rhaas at illinois.edu
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> Hello all,
> 
> Present: Ian, Roberto, Roland
> 
> Current status is mostly good, with few failures per machine. Comet
> failures are almost certainly due to (known) file system bug.
> BlueWaters (and all IDAxiBrillBH) failures may be due to using
> uninitialized arrays in IDAxiBrillBH, Roland is investigating.
> 
> Action items:
> * Ian will check on failure on minerva (can read Roland's run)
> * Roberto will add test results for Marconi
> * Roland will run on draco at RZG
> 
> We are not going to hold the release if there are only 1-2 failures on
> machines (unless those failures are in core thorns).
> 
> Test results are here:
> 
> https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Release_coordination
> 
> and data should be committed to this repository:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/testsuite_results
> 
> Yours,
> Roland
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> for those of you interested in meeting up for the testsuite status and
>> release, let's meet in the ET phone call hangout:
>> 
>> https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/5jduv5dbzvhkhf7opttodyqlduu
>> 
>> Yours,
>> Roland
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> you can find a first batch of testsuite results here:
>>> 
>>> http://einsteintoolkit.org/testsuite_results/index.php
>>> 
>>> so far nothing major, most of the failures are the usual suspects.
>>> 
>>> Cori, comet and edison failed to run anything which could be a
>>> simfactory issue or me not setting eg allocations correctly.
>>> 
>>> The test failures should be investigated and compared to the set of
>>> failures for the last release. I cannot look at all of them, so people
>>> need to volunteer to look at some of those.
>>> 
>>> * bethe
>>> * bluewaters
>>> * minerva
>>> * qb
>>> 
>>> qb is at LSU, bluewaters at NCSA, minerva at AEI and bethe at Caltech.
>>> 
>>> Yours,
>>> Roland
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:10:25 -0500
> From: Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Users] meeting minutes for 2017-07-03
> To: rhaas at ncsa.illinois.edu
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>> On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:12:55AM -0500, Roland Haas wrote:
>> Present: Ian, Roberto, Roland
> 
> I am sorry for missing the call - something local came up...
> 
>> We are not going to hold the release if there are only 1-2 failures on
>> machines (unless those failures are in core thorns).
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Some remarks:
> 
> - What machine is 105aff02?
> - Why are the Dissipation testsuites failing on 
>  BW/Comet/Edison/Cori/Golub/Hydra? (ADMConstraints? ... see below)
>  On BW they don't seem to produce output at all, but on the others the
>  same number of sufficiently different files suggest a common cause.
> - sphere_pugh_ppm is one of the 'fails a bit sometimes' thorns, and has 
>  been for a while. It's not a release-blocker, but a candidate we
>  should look at. This might very well be a not optimal testsuite setup.
> - RotatingSymmetry90/180 testsuites also seem to fail on 
>  Golum/Edison/Cori. I seem to remember that, like Dissipation, they use
>  ML_ADMConstraints results in the testsuite. Could you please check
>  if the workaround is already applied in the source that is tested
>  here, i.e., if the workaround does not work here?
> - We should probably disable OpenCL for BW if not even the WaveToy works 
>  there: keep it commented out in the optionlist, but don't enable it by
>  default, because it might fool people in thinking it should work.
> 
> Overall, this looks really quite good - in fact, better than at some 
> other times for a release.
> 
> Keep adding/updating testsuites, I'll prepare release notes and get 
> everything ready for a release. For now, I will not create release 
> branches before that status of ML_ADMConstraints is sorted out (patch is 
> in the works, but not in master and not widely tested yet).
> 
> Frank
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:31:52 -0500
> From: Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Users] meeting minutes for 2017-07-03
> To: Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu>
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> Hello all,
> 
>> Some remarks:
>> 
>> - What machine is 105aff02?
> Machines with just hexadecimal names are my laptops.
> 
>> - Why are the Dissipation testsuites failing on
>> BW/Comet/Edison/Cori/Golub/Hydra? (ADMConstraints? ... see below) On
>> BW they don't seem to produce output at all, but on the others the
>> same number of sufficiently different files suggest a common cause.
>> - sphere_pugh_ppm is one of the 'fails a bit sometimes' thorns, and
>> has   been for a while. It's not a release-blocker, but a candidate
>> we should look at. This might very well be a not optimal testsuite
>> setup.
>> - RotatingSymmetry90/180 testsuites also seem to fail on
>> Golum/Edison/Cori. I seem to remember that, like Dissipation, they
>> use ML_ADMConstraints results in the testsuite. Could you please
>> check if the workaround is already applied in the source that is
>> tested here, i.e., if the workaround does not work here?
>> - We should probably disable OpenCL for BW if not even the WaveToy
>> works   there: keep it commented out in the optionlist, but don't
>> enable it by default, because it might fool people in thinking it
>> should work.
> Would you mind adding those comments on the wiki page that I had
> mentioned in the minutes, please? That way they are in one place and
> not scattered throughout multiple emails.
> 
> https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Release_coordination
> 
> which already has sections for the different machines and has my
> assessment on the BW issue and at least one guess for the failure of
> Dissipation (though the SEGFAULT on BW persists).
> 
>> Overall, this looks really quite good - in fact, better than at some
>> other times for a release.
> Yes.
> 
>> Keep adding/updating testsuites, I'll prepare release notes and get
>> everything ready for a release. For now, I will not create release
>> branches before that status of ML_ADMConstraints is sorted out (patch
>> is in the works, but not in master and not widely tested yet).
> Ok, thank you.
> 
> Yours,
> Roland
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:42:15 -0500
> From: Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Users] meeting minutes for 2017-07-03
> To: rhaas at ncsa.illinois.edu
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>> On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 11:31:52AM -0500, Roland Haas wrote:
>> Would you mind adding those comments on the wiki page that I had
>> mentioned in the minutes, please?
>> 
>> https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Release_coordination
> 
> Done.
> 
> Frank
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