Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: cronk@ete08-f.icase.edu (Cronk David)
Subject: MPI_Init
Organization: ICASE/NASA Langley
Date: 27 Feb 1995 19:51:58 GMT
Message-ID: <3itagu$fr8@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>

Dear colleagues,

I am using mpich ver. 1.0.7 from argon on a cluster of sun workstations and I
am having a strange problem that I am hoping someone else has experienced.
I am running a test program that uses two workstations.  Each process runs
the same code.  These processes first do a couple small bookkeeping things
and then they both call MPI_Init. 

The code runs fine the majority of the time.  The problem is that occasionally
(maybe 5 - 10 % of the time) neither process returns from MPI_Init.

I am truly baffled by this.  I am hoping someone recognizes this problem and
may be able to offer a solution.  Even if you have experienced this and never
discovered the cause I would like to here from you. 

Please feel free to use e-mail or to post a followup to this article.

Thanks in advance.
Dave.
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Dave Cronk    					Dave Cronk
College of William and Mary			ICASE
cronk@cs.wm.edu					cronk@icase.edu 

