[mpiwg-coll] [Mpi-forum] Error/gap in MPI_NEIGHBOR_ALLTOALL/ALLGATHER

Anthony Skjellum skjellum at gmail.com
Sun Sep 29 03:56:39 CDT 2019


All, please see:

https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/153

Thanks,
Tony

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 6:37 PM Anthony Skjellum via mpi-forum <
mpi-forum at lists.mpi-forum.org> wrote:

> Rolf let’s open a Ticket
>
> Anthony Skjellum, PhD
> 205-807-4968
>
>
> > On Sep 27, 2019, at 6:09 PM, Rolf Rabenseifner via mpi-forum <
> mpi-forum at lists.mpi-forum.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dear MPI collective WG,
> >
> >    you may try to resolve the problem with a maybe wrong
> >    MPI specification for MPI_NEIGHBOR_ALLTOALL/ALLGATHER
> >
> > Dear MPI Forum member,
> >
> >    you may own/use an MPI implementation that implements
> >    MPI_NEIGHBOR_ALLTOALL/ALLGATHER
> >    with race conditions if #nprocs in one dimension is
> >    only 1 or 2 and periodic==true
> >
> > The problem was reported as a bug of the OpenMPI library
> > by Simone Chiochetti from DICAM at the University of Trento,
> > but seems to be a bug in the MPI specification,
> > or at least an advice to implementors is missing.
> >
> > I produced a set of animated slides.
> > Please look at them in presentation mode with animation.
> >
> > Have fun with a problem that clearly prevents the use
> > of MPI_NEIGHBOR_... routines with cyclic boundary condition
> > if one wants to verify that mpirun -np 1 is doing
> > the same as the sequential code.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Rolf
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseifner at hlrs.de .
> > High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530 .
> > University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832 .
> > Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner .
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> > <neighbor_mpi-3_bug.pptx>
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