[Beowulf] Re: More on PVM's afterlife :-)

[kohlja at ornl.gov]

Hey David/Beowulf Gang,

Sorry for your PVM woes, but please try the latest "patch pre-release"
version of PVM, 3.4.5+7 available at:

	http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~kohl/PVM/pvm3.4.5+7.tar.gz

This likely fixes many recent problems, especially on 64-bit arches.

(Yeah, I know, another full release would be handy sometime...  :-})

In the future, please don't hesitate to email:

	pvm at msr.csm.ornl.gov

with any PVM-related questions or concerns.

We're unfunded but not dead yet...  :)

All the Best,

	Jim

  On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 07:17:02AM -0400, Wael R. Elwasif wrote:
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  > Message: 1
  > Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:20:12 -0700
  > From: "David Mathog" <mathog at caltech.edu>
  > Subject: [Beowulf] Re: static pvm library won't link anymore
  > To: beowulf at beowulf.org
  > Message-ID: <E1I6vDo-0002gs-7B at mendel.bio.caltech.edu>
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  > Well it builds cleanly now, but it doesn't run.  Traced the failure
  > down to the exec in /usr/common/pvm3/lib/LINUX/pvmd.  For the old
  > version it does this:

  > % /usr/common/pvm3_3.4.4/lib/LINUX/pvmd3 -s -d0x0 -nmonkey01.cluster 1
  > c0a801dc:84c2 4080 30 c0a80101:0000
  > ddpro<2316> arch<LINUX> ip<c0a80101:800d> mtu<4080> dsig<4229185>

  > (as it should be)

  > for the new one it does this:

  > % /usr/common/pvm3_3.4.5/lib/LINUX/pvmd3 -s -d0x0 -nmonkey01.cluster 1
  > c0a801dc:84c2 4080 30 c0a80101:0000
  > Floating point exception (core dumped)

  > Sigh,

  > David Mathog
  > mathog at caltech.edu
  > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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  > Message: 2
  > Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:52:21 -0700
  > From: "David Mathog" <mathog at caltech.edu>
  > Subject: [Beowulf] Re: static pvm library won't link anymore
  > To: beowulf at beowulf.org
  > Message-ID: <E1I6wez-0002za-7q at mendel.bio.caltech.edu>
  > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

  > It still doesn't work, pvmd blows up on Linux.

  > Here are the tiny number of changes I made to the vanilla pvm 3.4.5
  > distribution, based on the changes in the Mandriva 2007.1 and FC6
  > src rpms (mostly).  It's only 18 modified files and mostly one or
  > two lines in each, and most of those are just adding <stdlib.h> and
  > the like:

  > http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/pub/software/linux_or_unix_tools/pvm_3.4.5_diffs.txt

  > This gives a clean compile on both Linux (gcc 4.1.2 or 4.1.1)
  > and Solaris (gcc 3.4.2).  It seems to run ok on Solaris but dumps
  > core on the 32bit X86 machines.  The old one, 3.4.4, still works
  > (aside from the blast library issue and the fact I can't link anything
  > to it. which started this whole mess), so I fell back to that for now.

  > Very frustrating when a package like this won't build from source.

  > Regards,

  > David Mathog
  > mathog at caltech.edu
  > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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  > Message: 3
  > Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:41:01 -0400
  > From: "Jeffrey B. Layton" <laytonjb at charter.net>
  > Subject: [Beowulf] Core 2 (or Woodcrest) Performance on HPL (Top500)
  > To: Beowulf Mailing list <beowulf at beowulf.org>
  > Message-ID: <468FB40D.3050308 at charter.net>
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  > Good morning,

  > Has anyone run HPL (Top500 benchmark) on a single node
  > that has the Core 2 Duo or the Quad-core on-board? I'm
  > interested in the performance numbers you obtained. I don't
  > need the performance for more than one node. Ideally I would
  > like the numbers for just one core, but I can make do with
  > 2 cores for the Core 2 and 4 cores for the quad-core.

  > Thanks!

  > Jeff



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