Just to be sure, can you use the mpiexec that is built/installed with MPICH 3.2? You mention mpiexec version 0.84 below, so that's the first thing I would try. Ken On 04/07/2016 05:49 AM, Andrew Wood wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to get MPICH 3.2 working on our cluster, but jobs are failing in MPI_Init with the following output if they are run on two or more nodes (4 processes per node):

Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack: MPIR_Init_thread(490).................: MPID_Init(201)........................: channel initialization failed MPIDI_CH3_Init(93)....................: MPID_nem_init(285)....................: MPIDI_CH3I_Seg_commit(366)............: MPIU_SHMW_Hnd_deserialize(324)........: MPIU_SHMW_Seg_open(867)...............: MPIU_SHMW_Seg_create_attach_templ(638): open failed - No such file or directory mpiexec: Error: handle_pmi: unknown cmd abort.

The full output above only occurs intermittently. Sometimes only the last line appears (job aborted before stderr is flushed?).

Our cluster uses Torque 2.5.13 and Maui 3.3.1, and the jobs are launched with mpiexec 0.84.

I've configured MPICH as follows.

./configure --enable-error-checking=all --enable-error-messages=all --enable-g=all --disable-fast --enable-check-compiler-flags --enable-fortran=all --enable-cxx --enable-romio --enable-debuginfo --enable-versioning --enable-strict

I've found the problem goes away if I include the option '--enable-nemesis-dbg-nolocal', but presumably that could have an impact on performance.

The problem doesn't occur with MPICH 3.1.4, configured with the same options.

I've found this message in the mailing list archives, reporting the same problem http://lists.mpich.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-December/004352.html However, that was on a system using SLURM, and the replies suggest that the problem was with SLURM rather than MPICH, and we're not using SLURM on our system.

Can anyone help?

Regards, Andy.

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