I don't see this with my own build of OpenBLAS. @staticfloat, how old are
the bottles?

Med venlig hilsen

Andreas Noack


2014-08-12 0:15 GMT-04:00 Thomas Covert <thom.cov...@gmail.com>:

> I think this is broken again: I'm observing single-threaded failures
> (i.e., the last line of the sample code fails when the addprocs(8) line is
> not commented out) on both a somewhat recent OS X home-brew build and also
> the current --HEAD home-brew build right now.  I am using the standard
> 64-bit openblas, arpack, and suite-sparse from @staticfloat's home-brew
> setup (i.e., compiled without the --HEAD option).  If it helps, here is my
> versioninfo():
>
> *julia> **versioninfo()*
>
> Julia Version 0.4.0-prerelease+52
>
> Commit daa3f82* (2014-08-12 03:33 UTC)
>
> Platform Info:
>
>   System: Darwin (x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0)
>
>   CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4578U CPU @ 3.00GHz
>
>   WORD_SIZE: 64
>
>   BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT NO_AFFINITY)
>
>   LAPACK: libopenblas
>
>   LIBM: libopenlibm
>
>   LLVM: libLLVM-3.3
>
> -thom
>
> On Friday, July 18, 2014 4:34:06 PM UTC-5, Viral Shah wrote:
>>
>> This is now fixed now on master by using a new openblas release that
>> fixes the bug. You can get the fix in tomorrow's nightly. Thanks for
>> reporting!
>>
>> -viral
>>
>> On Thursday, July 10, 2014 4:20:07 AM UTC+5:30, Thomas Covert wrote:
>>>
>>> I have found cholfact to behave differently (erroneously?) under
>>> parallel processing contexts than under standard settings.  What I mean by
>>> "parallel processing" is simply having previously called addprocs().  Here
>>> is some example code that I am running on my mid-2009 MacBook Pro using a
>>> somewhat recent brew of @staticfloat's homebrew distribution:
>>>
>>> addprocs(8)
>>>
>>> N = 1000
>>>
>>> x = 10 * randn(N)
>>>
>>> X = zeros(N,N)
>>>
>>>
>>> for i = 1:N
>>>
>>>     for j = 1:N
>>>
>>> X[i,j] = exp(-.5 * (x[i]-x[j])^2)
>>>
>>>     end
>>>
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>> X = X + diagm(.5 * ones(N))
>>>
>>>
>>> C = cholfact(X)
>>>
>>> iC = inv(C)
>>>
>>> CiC = cholfact(iC)
>>>
>>> I believe this code generates an X which is positive definite by
>>> construction.
>>>
>>> If I run this code as-is, I get the following error (or something
>>> similar, the PosDefException sometimes changes):
>>>
>>> *ERROR: PosDefException(12)*
>>>
>>> * in cholfact! at linalg/factorization.jl:36*
>>>
>>> * in cholfact at linalg/factorization.jl:39*
>>>
>>> *while loading /Users/tcovert/path_to_code.jl, in expression starting on
>>> line 16*
>>>
>>> However, if I comment out the "addprocs(8)" line, everything works fine.
>>>  Also, for smaller values of N the problem goes away (N=100,200 is fine,
>>> N=400 is not).  Here is my versioninfo() if that helps:
>>>
>>> *julia> **versioninfo()*
>>>
>>> Julia Version 0.3.0-prerelease+3868
>>>
>>> Commit e7a9a7d* (2014-06-24 19:39 UTC)
>>>
>>> Platform Info:
>>>
>>>   System: Darwin (x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0)
>>>
>>>   CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8700  @ 2.53GHz
>>>
>>>   WORD_SIZE: 64
>>>
>>>   BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT NO_AFFINITY)
>>>
>>>   LAPACK: libopenblas
>>>
>>>   LIBM: libopenlibm
>>>
>>>

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