#918: Usage of appendix in both UsersGuide and ReferenceManual
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Reporter: knarf | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: ET_2012_11
Component: Cactus | Version: development version
Keywords: |
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The usage of the appendix of the UsersGuide inside the ReferenceManual led
to a lot of internal references being commented out. This probably
happened when UsersGuide and ReferenceManual had been divided, but it
means that currently a lot of useful information is missing. In #885 there
is agreement that the best solution would be to have the appendix included
only by one of the two documents, and to restore references as much as
possible.
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#990: Cacuts documentation describes staggering
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Reporter: rhaas | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version:
Keywords: Documentation |
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didn't we recently remove this?
The docs are at:
http://einsteintoolkit.org/documentation/UsersGuide/UsersGuidech9.html#x13-…
It also still mentions cctk_lssh which was removed.
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#1021: Fortran example for CCTK_Equals in the reference guide has multiple issues
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Reporter: hinder | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version:
Keywords: documentation |
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The example for CCTK_Equals in the reference guide
(http://cactuscode.org/documentation/referencemanual/ReferenceManualch2.html…)
has an errant semicolon and does not include the macro
DECLARE_CCTK_FUNCTIONS which seems to be needed for CCTK_Equals to be
used.
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#1081: Add index file support for sliced output to CarpetIOHDF5
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Reporter: hinder | Owner: eschnett
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Carpet | Version:
Keywords: |
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CarpetIOHDF5 has support for writing an "index" file alongside the normal
HDF5 output files. This is an HDF5 file in which the datasets are present
but contain no data. This index file is much faster to read than the full
HDF5 file (due to locality of data in the index file and block reads on
slow filesystems) and can significantly speed up analysis of the data.
Index files are currently written for the "standard" (typically 3D) data
in Output.cc, but are not written for the "sliced" data in OutputSlice.cc.
Since visualisation of 2D data is very common, OutputSlice.cc should be
modified to output index files as well.
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#1109: LoopControl::printstats should default to "no"
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Reporter: hinder | Owner: eschnett
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Carpet | Version:
Keywords: |
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LoopControl::printstats should default to "no". The output is not
important enough to show to the user unless they ask for it.
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#928: openmp parallelization within Exact broken
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Reporter: knarf | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: ET_2012_05
Component: Other | Version:
Keywords: |
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Exact uses openmp for the loop over grid points. However, quite a few
metrics (which get called pointwise) use static (saved) data. In all cases
I have looked at this is only used to initialize some local variables with
values from Cactus parameters - and only as long as a 'global' variable
'firstcall' is true. This variable is set to 'false' after the other
variables had been initialized, which should be ok even when using
multiple threads. However, the compiler can switch the two (and does
according to the assembly output), leading to another thread 'seeing'
first_call being false, but the global variables not being initialized
yet.
The right solution would be to remove these variables. They are not really
necessary, because the Cactus parameters could directly be used. However,
that patch would be quite large.
A simple and quick workaround would be to remove the openmp
parallelization for that loop, at least for the upcoming release.
We have to do one of the two - or something else in case someone comes up
with another idea. This is currently breaking several testsuites
(sometimes).
In case you want to see an example: look at de_Sitter.F77 and
firstcall and arad.
Thoughts?
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#902: carpetioascii with compact_format writes wrong set of columns
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Reporter: rhaas | Owner: eschnett
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Carpet | Version:
Keywords: carpetioascii |
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For 0d output (in my case systemstatistics data) I get:
{{{
# SYSTEMSTATISTICS::PROCESS_MEMORY_MB
(systemstatistics::process_memory_mb)
#
# column format: 1:it 2:ix 3:time 4:x 5:data
# data columns: 5:maxrss_mb 6:majflt_mb 7:arena_mb 8:ordblks_mb 9:hblks_mb
10:hblkhd_mb 11:uordblks_mb 12:fordblks_mb 13:keepcost_mb 14:swap_used_mb
3840 0 5.76 4956 23 628 0 0 651 -1189 1818 17 0
4096 0 6.144 5100 23 726 0 0 651 -1188 1915 21 0
}}}
Note that the headers claim 14 columns but counting them, there are only
13 columns. From the look of it the "x" column is absent (since 4956 makes
sense for being MB of memory used and 5.76 is clearly the time)
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#1107: New thorn ML_WaveToy_Test
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Reporter: eschnett | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version:
Keywords: |
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I propose to add a new thorn ML_WaveToy_Test to the Einstein Toolkit. This
thorn exists in the McLachlan arrangement and complements the auto-
generated McLachlan/ML_WaveToy with test cases.
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#946: Undefined symbol ___emutls_get_address
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Reporter: hinder | Owner: eschnett
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: SimFactory | Version:
Keywords: |
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When I try to compile on Mac OS using the SimFactory optionlist macos-
fink-gcc.cfg
(https://svn.cct.lsu.edu/repos/numrel/simfactory2/trunk/mdb/optionlists
/macos-fink-gcc.cfg), I get the following error at link time:
{{{
ld: warning: alignment lost in merging tentative definition
_tmunubaserest_
ld: warning: alignment lost in merging tentative definition
_admmacrosrest_
ld: warning: alignment lost in merging tentative definition
_staticconformalrest_
Undefined symbols:
"___emutls_get_address", referenced from:
__ZN4dist25collect_total_num_threadsEv.omp_fn.0 in
libthorn_CarpetLib.a(dist.cc.o)
dist::collect_total_num_threads() in
libthorn_CarpetLib.a(dist.cc.o)
Carpet::SetupGH(tFleshConfig*, int, _cGH*) in
libthorn_Carpet.a(SetupGH.cc.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [/Users/ian/Cactus/Kerrness/exe/cactus_sim] Error 1
make: *** [sim] Error 2
}}}
I don't know if the "alignment lost" warnings are related to the fatal
error. This seems to be some issue related to OpenMP. The problem
appeared fairly recently, as I have been able to compile older versions of
the ET with no problem, and this option list has not been changed.
I am reporting this against SimFactory because the problem does not happen
with other option lists in the machine database, but I suspect that the
issue arose due to a change in Carpet (maybe related to affinity?).
From some Google searching, this symbol is part of GCC's thread-local
storage emulation for Mac OS. Some people have had this problem when
mixing object files compiled by different versions of GCC. I am using GCC
4.4.4 from Fink:
{{{
> g++-4 --version
g++-4 (GCC) 4.4.4
}}}
This page, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7885246/what-is-the-emutls-
get-address-symbol, says
{{{
Using thread local storage (e.g. OpenMP ThreadPrivate variables) on Darwin
requires manually linking to TLS emutls, via either -lgcc_s.so.1 or
-lgcc_eh
}}}
There is also a suggestion to upgrade the version of GCC, which I am
trying now.
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#1054: Formaline can enter into an infinite loop if git-lock.pl cannot create its
lock directory
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Reporter: rhaas | Type: defect
Status: new | Priority: minor
Milestone: | Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn
Version: | Keywords: Formaline
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if for some reason the source base directory returned by git-get-
localdir.pl is not accessible (eg. since one has uses an invalid or empty
(simfactory) defs.local.ini) then the loop in line 35 of git-lock.pl:
{{{
32 my $waittime = 0.01;
33 my $maxwaittime = 10;
34 print "Attempting to obtain $lockdir cwd = ".getcwd()."
GIT_DIR=$git_dir\n";
35 while (! (mkdir $lockdir)) {
36 # Wait some time
37 my $unit = $waittime==1 ? "second" : "seconds";
38 print "Git repository is busy; waiting $waittime $unit...\n";
39 system "sleep '$waittime'";
40 # Back off exponentially
41 $waittime *= 2;
42 $waittime = 1 if $waittime>1 && $waittime<2;
43 $waittime = $maxwaittime if $waittime > $maxwaittime;
44 }
}}}
never quits and without SILENT=no the make system also does not output the
"Git repository busy" messages it seems.
Possible remedies would seem to either introduce a timeout after which
Formaline gives up and does not push into the source code repository (with
a loud warning at the end) or to ensure that the print statement's output
appears on screen.
It might also be useful to add an option to Formaline to not rely on
simfactory. Right now without simfactory it will fail at some later point
in the build process (since it cannot call simfactory/bin/sim whoami) or
might use the wrong local source path (if simfactory is downloaded but not
properly set up).
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