Re: NAMD 2.9 ibverbs: Charmrun crashing on checkpoint-restart

From: Vibhor Agrawal (vibhora_at_g.clemson.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 00:56:33 CDT

Hello Tristan:
Can you attach your supercomputer script.so that it may be more clear

Vibhor
On Jul 16, 2013 1:31 AM, "Tristan Croll" <tristan.croll_at_qut.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi,****
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> We’ve just gotten NAMD 2.9 running on our local SGI Altix cluster using
> openMPI. In general it’s running great, with near-linear scaling up to 512
> cores. However, I’m running into strange crashing errors when I have
> multiple jobs queued up (using the “-W depend=afterany:” flag in qsub). If
> the continuation job starts immediately after completion of the previous
> job, charmrun crashes out on startup. All I get in the logfile is a core
> dump, while the stdout record gives me the message copied below.****
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> In these runs, I’ve been doing what’s always worked fine for me in the
> past: telling NAMD to run more steps than it can do in the allotted time,
> and allowing PBS to kill the job once it hits the walltime. From watching
> how the abovementioned fault develops with a series of smaller jobs,
> however, it seems the most reasonable explanation is that PBS is not giving
> sufficient time for some cleanup task before it starts the new run. Is
> this a known problem with large NAMD jobs, or is it more likely to be a
> cluster-specific problem?****
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> Many thanks,****
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> Tristan****
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> Lyra: OpenMPI (1.4.5) module loaded.****
>
> Lyra: NAMD (2.9) module loaded.****
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> Lyra: NAMD_2.9 Linux-x86_64-ibverbs****
>
> Charmrun> charmrun started...****
>
> Charmrun> mpiexec started****
>
> Charmrun> node programs all started****
>
> Charmrun> node programs all connected****
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> Charmrun> started all node programs in 2.911 seconds.****
>
> ------------- Processor 0 Exiting: Caught Signal ------------****
>
> Signal: segmentation violation****
>
> Suggestion: Try running with '++debug', or linking with '-memory paranoid'
> (memory paranoid requires '+netpoll' at runtime).****
>
> ------------- Processor 0 Exiting: Caught Signal ------------****
>
> Signal: segmentation violation****
>
> Suggestion: Try running with '++debug', or linking with '-memory paranoid'
> (memory paranoid requires '+netpoll' at runtime).****
>
> ------------- Processor 0 Exiting: Caught Signal ------------****
>
> Signal: segmentation violation****
>
> Suggestion: Try running with '++debug', or linking with '-memory paranoid'
> (memory paranoid requires '+netpoll' at runtime).****
>
> ------------- Processor 0 Exiting: Caught Signal ------------****
>
> Signal: segmentation violation****
>
> Suggestion: Try running with '++debug', or linking with '-memory paranoid'
> (memory paranoid requires '+netpoll' at runtime).****
>
> ------------- Processor 0 Exiting: Caught Signal ------------****
>
> Signal: segmentation violation****
>
> Suggestion: Try running with '++debug', or linking with '-memory paranoid'
> (memory paranoid requires '+netpoll' at runtime).****
>
> ------------- Processor 0 Exiting: Caught Signal ------------****
>
> Signal: segmentation violation****
>
> Suggestion: Try running with '++debug', or linking with '-memory paranoid'
> (memory paranoid requires '+netpoll' at runtime).****
>
> Fatal error on PE 0> segmentation violation****
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> Tristan Croll****
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