Hi,

I am new to PASD and Xplor and have been trying to set up some structure 
calculations on a PowerMac G5 with 4 processors. I have 
been able to get xplor to successfully run on a single processor (e.g. with 
xplor -tcl sa_pass2.tcl > sa_pass2.tcl.out) but I get a bus 
error when I try to use the -parallel command (e.g. with xplor -parallel 
-machines machine_names -tcl sa_pass2.tcl > sa_pass2.tcl):

/programs/powermac/xplor/2.22/bin/xplor: line 531:  8353 Bus error              
 /programs/powermac/xplor/2.22/bin/xplor -
directory /home/joel/nmrData/pasd/test -ppid 8327 -pport 9021 -phost 
leibniz.mackinnon.lab -process 0 -num_processes 4 -
num_threads 1 -tcl sa_pass2.tcl -o xplor.log.8327.0
/programs/powermac/xplor/2.22/bin/xplor: line 531:  8355 Bus error              
 /programs/powermac/xplor/2.22/bin/xplor -
directory /home/joel/nmrData/pasd/test -ppid 8327 -pport 9021 -phost 
leibniz.mackinnon.lab -process 1 -num_processes 4 -
num_threads 1 -tcl sa_pass2.tcl -o xplor.log.8327.1
/programs/powermac/xplor/2.22/bin/xplor: line 531:  8360 Bus error              
 /programs/powermac/xplor/2.22/bin/xplor -
directory /home/joel/nmrData/pasd/test -ppid 8327 -pport 9021 -phost 
leibniz.mackinnon.lab -process 2 -num_processes 4 -
num_threads 1 -tcl sa_pass2.tcl -o xplor.log.8327.2
/programs/powermac/xplor/2.22/bin/xplor: line 531:  8366 Bus error              
 /programs/powermac/xplor/2.22/bin/xplor -
directory /home/joel/nmrData/pasd/test -ppid 8327 -pport 9021 -phost 
leibniz.mackinnon.lab -process 3 -num_processes 4 -
num_threads 1 -tcl sa_pass2.tcl -o xplor.log.8327.3

Here, machine_names was localhost written on 4 lines, but I also obtained a 
similar error message with localhost written only once. 
In addition, I can run four separate xplor jobs (which get sent to the four 
different processors) without any errors. Although xplor 
seems to run fine on a single processor, it takes up all available cpu time 
(>95%). Have any other (mac?) users encountered these 
problems?

Joel

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Joel A. Butterwick
MacKinnon Lab
The Rockefeller University
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