2014-03-13 13:57 GMT+01:00 Anders Logg <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:36:42AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Mar, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Johannes Ring <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Jan Blechta
>> ><[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:19:31 +0100
>> >> Benjamin Kehlet <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hello!
>> >>>
>> >>> This code snippet
>> >>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>> from dolfin import *
>> >>>
>> >>> m = Mesh()
>> >>>
>> >>> editor = MeshEditor()
>> >>> editor.open(m, 2, 2)
>> >>> editor.init_vertices(3)
>> >>> editor.add_vertex(0, Point(.0, .0))
>> >>> editor.add_vertex(1, Point(1., .0))
>> >>> editor.add_vertex(2, Point(0., 1.))
>> >>>
>> >>> editor.init_cells(1)
>> >>> editor.add_cell(0, 0, 1, 2)
>> >>> editor.close()
>> >>>
>> >>> print MeshQuality.radius_ratio_min_max(m)
>> >>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>>
>> >>> gives this error (when Dolfin is built with MPI support)
>> >>
>> >> Can't reproduce.
>> >
>> >I got the same error as Benjamin.
>>
>> I get the error too.
>>
>> Initialising MPI is a long-standing issue that we've been dodging.
>> The solution in other libraries is that the user makes a call at the
>> start of a program to initialise MPI. We have a sprinkling of
>> behind-the-scenes initialisation of MPI. It's not ideal to have
>> calls all over the place the initialise MPI. I'm not sure what the
>> best solution is to balance performance and simplicity.
>
> Wouldn't it work to say that all classes that are parallel-aware need
> to initialize MPI? In this case the Mesh class. The cost should be
> virtually zero. I don't know what the cost is for calling
> MPI_Initialized() but we could add an extra flag in DOLFIN which is
> set when SubSystemsManager::init_mpi() is called so that a call to
> MPI_Initialized is not necessary when we know that we ourselves have
> actually initialized MPI explicitly before.

I was thinking along the same lines, namely to add a call to
init_mpi() in the constructor of Variable.

Benjamin

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