Thanks you very much for your attention Jeff.
I am impressed that you responded so quickly.
I will follow up.
Thanks again,
Dave
>From: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]>
>Reply-To: General LAM/MPI mailing list <lam_at_[hidden]>
>To: General LAM/MPI mailing list <lam_at_[hidden]>
>Subject: Re: LAM: MPI_Init hangs running TedHat 2.4.21
>Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 07:51:01 -0400
>
>On Jun 24, 2005, at 5:12 PM, Dave Diller wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use LAM on a 64-bit Linux cluster running RedHat
> > 2.4.21. I find that the version of LAM that comes bundled with
> > the operating system does not function properly, specifically the
> > applications always hang in the method MPI_Init.
>
>Wow -- bummer. :-(
>
> > I tried downloading LAM and building it myself, and it works OK,
> > so I am confident that it is not an application error. The
> > code is very simple, basically a Hello World.
>
>Just to be absolutely positively sure, can you send the code? Is it
>from the examples in the LAM tarball?
>
> > I'm guessing that this is some kind of a library problem, but
> > it seems that other people must have seen it too.
> >
> > The output from the command "lamboot -V" is as follows:
> >
> > LAM 6.5.9/MPI 2 C++ - Indiana University
> >
> > Arch: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
> > RPI: usysv
> >
> > The output from the command "uname -a" is as follows:
> >
> > Linux a1 2.4.21-27.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 21:53:57 EST 2004 x86_64
> > x86_64
> > x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > I need to solve this problem, rather then working around it
> > by building my own version of LAM, because our customers
> > will be using the pre-installed version of LAM.
>
>I'm afraid that we can't really help much here:
>
>1. That's a *really* old version of LAM. It really isn't supported by
>us anymore.
>
>2. We have neither control nor knowledge of how Red Hat bundles LAM
>with its shipping versions. You'll probably need to bring this up with
>Red Hat support (feel free to CC me on the conversation; I might be
>able to help with the technical content of the conversation).
>
>I realize that this is not much of an answer, but this is like a third
>party shipping my product -- I have no idea what they're doing nor how
>they're doing it. :-(
>
>--
>{+} Jeff Squyres
>{+} jsquyres_at_[hidden]
>{+} http://www.lam-mpi.org/
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