I think the KINDs are compiler dependent. For Sun Studio Fortran, REAL*16 and REAL(16) are the same thing. For Intel, maybe it's different. I don't know. Try running this program:

double precision xDP
real(16) x16
real*16 xSTAR16
write(6,*) kind(xDP), kind(x16), kind(xSTAR16), kind(1.0_16)
end

and checking if the output matches your expectations.

Jeff Squyres wrote:

I dabble in Fortran but am not an expert -- is REAL(kind=16) the same as REAL*16? MPI_REAL16 should be a 16 byte REAL; I'm not 100% sure that REAL(kind=16) is the same thing...?

On Oct 23, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Julien Devriendt wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to do an MPI_ALLREDUCE with quadruple precision real and
MPI_SUM and open mpi does not give me the correct answer (vartemp
is equal to vartored instead of 2*vartored). Switching to double precision
real works fine.
My version of openmpi is 1.2.7 and it has been compiled with ifort v10.1
and icc/icpc at installation

Here's the simple f90 code which fails:

program test_quad

   implicit none

   include "mpif.h"

   real(kind=16)             :: vartored(8),vartemp(8)
   integer                   :: nn,nslaves,my_index
   integer                   :: mpierror

   call MPI_INIT(mpierror)
   call MPI_COMM_SIZE(MPI_COMM_WORLD,nslaves,mpierror)
   call MPI_COMM_RANK(MPI_COMM_WORLD,my_index,mpierror)

   nn       = 8
   vartored = 1.0_16
   vartemp  = 0.0_16
   print*,"P1 ",my_index,vartored
call MPI_ALLREDUCE (vartored,vartemp,nn,MPI_REAL16,MPI_SUM,MPI_COMM_WORLD,mpierror)
   print*,"P2 ",my_index,vartemp

   stop

end program test_quad

Any idea why this happens?

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