Re: [OMPI devel] VampirTrace: time not increasing

2012-07-06 Thread Fluder, Eugene
Thanks. Now that I know what to look for, I should be able to figure it out. BTW, I switched the script that ultimately runs the mpiexec from tcsh to bash and the problem went away. Not complaining but do you have any idea why that might be? Gene -- Eugene M Fluder, Jr, PhD Computat

Re: [OMPI devel] VampirTrace: time not increasing

2012-07-06 Thread Fluder, Eugene
Holger, Thanks. I appreciate the detail. Gene -- Eugene M Fluder, Jr, PhD Computational Scientist Scientific Computing The Mt. Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1498 New York, NY 10029-6574 T: 212 659 8608 F: 646

Re: [OMPI devel] VampirTrace: time not increasing

2012-07-06 Thread Holger Mickler
Oh, I just realized that you are probably using the Open MPI version of VT which builds as part of the Open MPI build. I'm not 100% sure if the modification of config.h works as laid out, but it should... you need to look out for VT's config.h then, not Open MPI's. Holger On 07/06/2012 04:54 PM,

Re: [OMPI devel] VampirTrace: time not increasing

2012-07-06 Thread Holger Mickler
Hi Gene, this error is often caused by insufficiently synchronized TSCs (time stamp counter) of different processors/cores. When VT uses the TSC for timing the events (it does that by default), and the processes switch to another core during execution, it may well happen that the next recorded tim

[OMPI devel] VampirTrace: time not increasing

2012-07-06 Thread Fluder, Eugene
I got the following error running a VT enabled run of AMBER. This was reported in December of 2009 under almost identical conditions but the thread does not contain a resolution. I reran the test with VT_UNIFY=no and it completed normally. The same error occurred when I ran vtunify separately.