Mpich 1.2.3 first run problem

Paul English tallpaul at speakeasy.org
Wed Oct 9 09:35:01 PDT 2002


> >We had a similar problem once when we installed mpich to compare it
> >with Score. The problem was that mpich didn't work correctly when
> >there were two mpich-jobs on different machines but with identical
> >process identifiers (PIDs). To solve the problem we wrote a little
> >script that logged in onto all the nodes and started a different
> >number of small jobs on the nodes (e.g. node_number * 100 "echo"s).
> 
> Thanks!  That points us to the code that must be broken.  We'll have a fix 
> in a few days.
> 
> Bill

Bill,
	Sorry I lost track of this - is there a fix now?

Paul




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