[CIG-SHORT] Fwd: Re: Error message from running on cluster

Hongfeng Yang hyang at whoi.edu
Wed Jun 20 13:57:52 PDT 2012


Hi Jonathan,

Then I need to turn on the debugger in the code. How should I set xterm 
display in order to attach gdp?

Thanks,

Hongfeng

On 6/20/12 2:32 PM, Jonathan Murray wrote:
> we use nfs to access the filesystem
> the filesystem is either xfs or ext4
>
> how are you submitting your jobs? is there a shell script?
>
> thanks
>
> On 06/20/2012 04:18 PM, Hongfeng Yang wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> I am running a software on the cluster scylla. So far I can run the code
>> on ONE compute node, but could not get it proceed on two or more nodes.
>>
>> The code developers suspect that it could be related to the filesystem
>> on our cluster as the code gets stuck in reading the mesh. Do you know
>> what kind of filesystems are on the master and compute nodes on scylla?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Hongfeng
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	Re: Error message from running on cluster
>> Date: 	Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:01:18 -0600
>> From: 	Matthew Knepley<knepley at mcs.anl.gov>
>> To: 	Hongfeng Yang<hyang at whoi.edu>
>> CC: 	cig-short at geodynamics.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Hongfeng Yang<hyang at whoi.edu
>> <mailto:hyang at whoi.edu>>  wrote:
>>
>>      Hi Matt,
>>
>>      Last night I did not send the error message of running pylith on our
>>      cluster at WHOI. Sorry for that. Here it is.
>>
>>      Could you help figure out what the problem might be?
>>
>>
>> So it looks like there is a problem when trying to read in the mesh,
>> although it is hard to tell since
>> we get an SEGV. My guess is that the filesystem is not exactly what you
>> think it is.I recommend
>> going through the cluster documentation to understand exactly how the
>> filesystem is accessed from
>> nodes other than the head node.
>>
>>     Matt
>>
>>
>>      Thanks,
>>
>>      Hongfeng
>>
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>>      Postdoctoral Investigator
>>      Department of Geology and Geophysics
>>      Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
>>      360 Woods Hole Rd, MS 24
>>      Woods Hole, MA 02543
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
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>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
>> their experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
>


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