#737: simfactory sync can lead to inconsistent builds
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Reporter: rhaas | Owner: eschnett
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: SimFactory | Version:
Keywords: |
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simfactory's sync command uses rsync with the --archive (-a) option. This
option set the modification date of files on the target machine to that on
the source machine. This can lead to inconsistent builds in the following
situation:
[1] local: edit source_file.c
[2] local: simfactory sync
[3] local: edit source_file.c
[4] remote: simfactory build
[5] local: simfactory sync
[6] remote: simfactory build
[6] will not rebuild source_file.o since [5] set the modification time to
that of [3] which which is older than [4] hence make will not consider
source_file.o to be out-of-date.
A simple fix is to add --no-times to the rsync options. Unfortunately this
disables rsync's file modification time optimization and requires it to
compute checksums on all files which can be very slow on slow filesystems.
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#620: Simplify timelevel handling for Cactus thorn writers
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Reporter: hinder | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version:
Keywords: |
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Currently, a thorn writer must declare the maximum number of timelevels
for a variable in the interface.ccl file, then allocate a specific number
of timelevels for which storage is allocated in the schedule.ccl file.
There are rules for how many timelevels a variable should have. For
example, to evolve using MoL I think you need at least two, whereas to
evolve using mesh refinement with time prolongation order 2 you need
three.
The problem is that the person writing the thorn shouldn't have to know
how it is going to be used. If I write an evolution thorn, I should not
care whether it is used with mesh refinement or not. I certainly
shouldn't have to care what prolongation order is going to be used.
Would it be possible for Cactus to automatically determine the number of
timelevels needed for a given variable? My proposal is that it should not
be necessary for the user to specify the number of timelevels in the
interface.ccl or schedule.ccl file for variables declared in that thorn.
The only time a thorn writer should have to do that is if that thorn
specifically uses the other timelevels. For example, a thorn which
couples to MoL will probably only ever read or write to the current
timelevel. MoL, on the other hand, could tell Cactus that it needs a
certain number of timelevels at runtime for those variables. Similarly
for mesh refinement.
This goes along with the planned changes to the scheduling system to make
it easier to program Cactus thorns and make it harder to make errors.
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#695: Don't buffer output from configuration scripts
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Reporter: eschnett | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version:
Keywords: |
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Output from configuration scripts is buffered, and is only output after
the script has finished. This is inconvenient for long-running scripts.
Instead, the output should be shown right away.
This buffering is done in file lib/sbin/ConfigScriptParser.pl, which uses
Perl backquotes `` to collect all of the script's output. Instead, Cactus
should use a pipe to read the script's output line-by-line, and process it
immediately.
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#163: Assertion `tl>=0 and tl<timelevels' failed error
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Reporter: azebrowski@… | Owner: eschnett
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: Carpet | Version:
Keywords: |
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I'm currently running a Cactus simulation based off the ET mclachlan
parameter file. I have some custom thorns which force checkpointing every
iteration, and then write new parameter files. The new parameter files
are used to run specific functions from the host simulation ("spawning"),
but I'm having some problems resuming simulations.
Currently, I get this error when resuming:
INFO (Carpet): GF: rhs: 818k active, 1440k owned (+76%), 1896k total
(+32%), 328 steps/time
cactus_sim:
/home/azebrowski/Cactus/arrangements/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/th.hh:79: double
th::get_time(int, int, int) const: Assertion `tl>=0 and tl<timelevels'
failed.
[cyder:32759] *** Process received signal ***
[cyder:32759] Signal: Aborted (6)
I'm guessing there's a parameter I'm not setting properly in my child
simulation, could anyone give me a pointer to where I should be looking?
I looked for things relating to timelevels in the host/spawned parameter
files, but didn't see anything that stood out. My parameter files used
and full output are attached to this email, with the disclaimer that I
modified the spawned parameter file to run every function instead of
skipping some in an attempt to bypass any problems that could be caused by
skipping some Carpet function on accident.
I've made a bzipped tarball containing the checkpointed data from the
simulation. It contains several parameter files. The parameter file of
interest here is spawn.par, as it doesn't use any of my custom code but
still causes Cactus to abort with an error. I left the other parameter
files in on the off chance that I might need to refer to them later.
Here is the source parameter file, which creates the spawned simulation:
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~azebrowski/ml-ahfinder-spawn.par
Here is the spawned simulation's parameter file:
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~azebrowski/spawn.par
Here is the full checkpointed data and another copy of the spawned
parameter file:
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~azebrowski/data.tar.bz2
Other information:
I ran the simulation using OpenMP with 12 cores to generate the
checkpointed data. I've also tried MPI, but that didn't seem to make a
difference.
Thornlist:
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~azebrowski/ThornList
gcc:
azebrowski@cyder:~/Cactus$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu
4.4.3-4ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-
shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --program-suffix=-4.4
--enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-plugin
--enable-objc-gc --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i486 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu
--target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)
Fortran is gfortran-4.4
I'm using the Mercurial version of Carpet, and the ET development thorns.
If you need more information, please let me know.
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#434: Keep track of masked-out volume in CarpetMask
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Reporter: eschnett | Owner: eschnett
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Carpet | Version:
Keywords: |
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Keep track of the volume that is masked out by CarpetMask, and take this
volume into account when checking in CarpetReduce that the integral over
the simulation domain equals the domain volume.
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#663: thornlists within Cactus should get cleaned up
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Reporter: knarf | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version: development version
Keywords: |
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Most of the thornlists in
https://svn.cactuscode.org/Utilities/trunk/Thornlist*
are out of date, and should get cleaned up.
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#361: delta_time when setting up ID with explicit time dependence
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Reporter: eloisa.bentivegna@… | Owner: eschnett
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Carpet | Version: ET_2010_11
Keywords: |
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In CallInitial, delta_time is used to calculate the time corresponding to
the different timelevels (line 399 of Carpet/src/Initialise.cc). At this
stage, though, delta_time is always equal to 1, leading to potentially
very separated initial-data slices when using init_each_timelevel and an
initial-data thorn that uses cctk_time explicitly. Should
cctkGH->cctk_delta_time be used here instead?
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#323: GetComponents overwrites thorn list
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Reporter: eschnett | Owner: eric9
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone:
Component: GetComponents | Version:
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I specified a thorn list located in the main Cactus directory.
GetComponents overwrote this thorn list with its own thorn list (the one
it generates automatically).
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#631: Documentation fails to build
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Reporter: hinder | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version:
Keywords: |
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With the current ET, I cannot build the documentation:
[ianhin@login-damiana EinsteinToolkit]$ make AllDoc
Creating user documentation UsersGuide.pdf
Running pdflatex....
! Argument of \CA@getsvndate has an extra }.
! Paragraph ended before \CA@getsvndate was complete.
! Argument of \CA@getsvndate has an extra }.
! Paragraph ended before \CA@getsvndate was complete.
! Paragraph ended before \@parse@version was complete.
! Missing number, treated as zero.
! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
! Missing number, treated as zero.
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
! Undefined control sequence.
Problem in . See doc/UsersGuide/LATEX_MESSAGES.
make: *** [UsersGuide] Error 1
I am attaching LATEX_MESSAGES. I have tried this both on damiana and on
my laptop. I consider this a blocker issue which could delay the release.
We must have working documentation.
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#517: archive CactusExternal
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Reporter: knarf | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version:
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We should move the CactusExternal thorns to archive. They cause trouble
and confusion where they are right now. This should happen for the next
Cactus release.
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