On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Frank Loeffler knarf@cct.lsu.edu wrote:
The currently very scarce results indicate, that at least on one machine
(spine - a Debian workstation, using gcc 4.7) all tests pass. On others quite some number fail (e.g. supermuc). Common problems seem to be one Exact testsuite, and some GRHydro suites, especially the new WENO test stuite. Symmetry thorns also fail some of their tests on more than one of the four machines.
As always: failure don't necessarily mean that something is wrong. Sometimes, the tolerances are just too strict for the underlying code, and CPUs, different compilers or compiler flags then show these differences.
So, in short: the good news is that at least one machine doesn't show test suite failures, something that was often not the case in the past.
This is not really news, given that all test cases are run automatically after every commit: https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/; look for "Status". In the past months, we had more problems with repositories (and the automated mechanism itself) than with the Einstein Toolkit code base.
-erik