Charm++ parallel programming system

[Tom Quinn <trq AT astro.washington.edu>]

I didn't build charm with --with-production, (just rebuilt to be sure) and 
it still runs without tripping the assert.

Tom Quinn       Astronomy, University of Washington
Internet:       
trq AT astro.washington.edu
Phone:          206-685-9009

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Gengbin Zheng wrote:

> yes, if you build charm with --with-production, you turned all error
> checkings off.You have to use CmiAbort if you want to quit the program.
>
> Gengbin
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Tom Quinn 
> <trq AT astro.washington.edu>
>  wrote:
>       Another strange thing I've noticed about the Release candidate:
>       CkAssert() no longer works.  Try putting a CkAssert(0) in
>       hello.C, and the program still runs:
>
>       diff --git a/tests/charm++/simplearrayhello/hello.C
>       b/tests/charm++/simplearrayh
>       index f11727a..79e6a0a 100644
>       --- a/tests/charm++/simplearrayhello/hello.C
>       +++ b/tests/charm++/simplearrayhello/hello.C
>       @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ public:
>           mainProxy = thishandle;
>
>           CProxy_Hello arr = CProxy_Hello::ckNew(nElements);
>       +    CkAssert(0); // This does nothing???
>
>           arr[0].SayHi(17);
>         };
>
>       Tom Quinn       Astronomy, University of Washington
>       Internet:       
> trq AT astro.washington.edu
>       Phone:          206-685-9009
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Phil Miller wrote:
>
>       On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 20:05, Gengbin Zheng
>       
> <zhenggb AT gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
>             This could have something to do with the
>             recent change to the default array
>             mapping. Only yesterday I noticed this bug for
>             checkpoint/restart, and I
>             asked Abhinav to fix it.
>             Phil, is that in the release candidate?
>
>
> http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/gitweb2.cgi?p=charm.git;a=log;h=refs/t
>       ags/charm-6.2.2-pre3
>
>       Yes, it is. It would be really nice to get an explicit
>       test for this
>       bug into the tree.
>
>
>             Gengbin
>
>             On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Tom Quinn
>             
> <trq AT astro.washington.edu>
>  wrote:
>
>                   I'm still having problems with
>                   restarts from checkpoints: The
>                   symptom
>                   seems to be that the restart entry
>                   executes fine until it calls a
>                   proxy
>                   broadcast: only 4055 out of 4096
>                   elements get the broadcast, then
>                   ChaNGa
>                   dies soon afterwards.  The restart
>                   has 5 empty "arr_*.dat" files.
>                    This is
>                   running the
>                   net-linux-x86_64-ibverbs-icc on
>                   512 cores of the NASA Pleiades
>                   machine.
>
>                   Tom Quinn       Astronomy,
>                   University of Washington
>                   Internet:      
>                   
> trq AT astro.washington.edu
>                   Phone:          206-685-9009
>
>                   On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Phil Miller
>                   wrote:
>
>                         I've just incorporated
>                         an additional bugfix
>                         applicable to
>                         checkpoint
>                         restart. It's in the
>                         repository tagged as
>                         charm-6.2.2-pre3.
>
>                         On Mon, Aug 30, 2010
>                         at 12:52, Phil Miller
>                         
> <mille121 AT illinois.edu>
>                         wrote:
>                               A release
>                               candidate
>                               of Charm
>                               6.2.2 is
>                               available
>                               from the
>                               Git
>                               repository
>                               (git
>                               checkout
>                               charm-6.2.2-pre2),
>                               with the
>                               following
>                               changes
>                               from
>                               6.2.1:
>
>                               FEM:
>                               prepend
>                               string to
>                               timestamp
>                               files for
>                               compatibility
>                               with newer
>                               paraviews
>                               Chare
>                               Array
>                               default
>                               mapping:
>                               fix bugs
>                               on late
>                               insertion
>                               and
>                               apparent
>                               imbalance
>                               Makefile:
>                               Avoid
>                               accidental
>                               wrong
>                               generation
>                               of
>                               pup_f.f90
>                               Chkpt:
>                               account
>                               for
>                               processors
>                               with 0
>                               objects
>                               add a test
>                               for
>                               restarting
>                               on a
>                               smaller
>                               number of
>                               pes.
>                               fixed
>                               default
>                               array map
>                               in case
>                               when
>                               check/restart
>                               happens on
>                               different
>                               processors.
>                               The
>                               binsize
>                               has to be
>                               updated.
>                               icc:
>                               Staticly
>                               link
>                               Intel's
>                               libraries
>                               on all
>                               versions
>                               >=9
>                               CkMulticast
>                               Reductions:
>                               Set result
>                               message
>                               reference
>                               number to
>                               userFlag
>                               Reductions:
>                               Set the
>                               reference
>                               number on
>                               result
>                               messages
>                               to the
>                               userFlag
>                               NetFEM:
>                               add prefix
>                               to
>                               timestep
>                               filenames
>                               for
>                               Paraview
>                               3.x
>                               Fall back
>                               on
>                               gethostname
>                               if a node
>                               has
>                               multiple
>                               IP
>                               addresses
>                               bluegenep:
>                               Update
>                               compilers
>                               bluegenep:
>                               fix path
>                               for XLF
>                               CPU
>                               affinity
>                               on
>                               mpi-crayxt-smp:
>                               correct
>                               getXTNodeID
>                               calls for
>                               SMP
>                               mpi-crayxt-smp:
>                               fix
>                               cputopology
>                               to account
>                               for
>                               multiple
>                               cores per
>                               node
>                               xlC:
>                               update
>                               linker
>                               flags for
>                               blueprint
>                               xlC
>                               64-bit:
>                               link with
>                               big
>                               library
>                               TOC
>                               trace-summary:
>                               Bugfixes
>                               Change
>                               timestep
>                               filename
>                               format to
>                               work with
>                               paraview
>                               3.x
>                               CPU
>                               Affinity
>                               +pemap:
>                               fix a
>                               buffer
>                               overfow
>                               bug.
>                               Docs: note
>                               slowness
>                               in CPU
>                               topology
>                               gathering
>                               from DNS
>                               issues
>                               xlc: don't
>                               pass
>                               archaic
>                               -qstaticinline
>                               Socket
>                               Routines:
>                               use
>                               getifaddrs
>                               (when
>                               available)
>                               for
>                               getting
>                               local IP.
>                               configure:
>                               check if
>                               cp -p
>                               works
>                               LAPI: Only
>                               copy argv
>                               in PEs
>                               that are
>                               not rank 0
>                               in their
>                               process
>                               configure:
>                               Drop
>                               archaic
>                               test on C
>                               library
>                               version
>                               Fix the
>                               reading of
>                               processors
>                               lists
>                               after
>                               +pemap
>                               block
>                               addition
>                               Increment
>                               version
>                               number to
>                               6.2.2
>
>
>                               Collectively,
>                               these
>                               improve
>                               support
>                               for
>                               various
>                               architectures,
>                               fix
>                               bugs in
>                               some newer
>                               features,
>                               and offer
>                               some minor
>                               improvements
>                               for
>                               testing
>                               and
>                               development
>                               work.
>
>                               Please
>                               test this
>                               code and
>                               post any
>                               discovered
>                               problems
>                               to the
>                               list.
>                               Barring
>                               any new
>                               issues, it
>                               will be
>                               released
>                               as 6.2.2
>                               in the
>                               next day
>                               or two.
>
>
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