[mpas-developers] 1/10 degree problems

Xylar Asay-Davis xylar at lanl.gov
Fri Apr 16 15:22:59 MDT 2010


It sounds like there isn't an output.nc to look at at all.

-Xylar

On 4/16/10 3:13 PM, Michael Duda wrote:
> Hi, Mat.
>
> I'd agree with Xylar's assessment that the F is probably not an
> indication of anything wrong -- rather, just indicating that none
> of the timers were active at the point where their times were
> printed.
>
> I wonder whether there could be some problem with the mesh
> decomposition file, graph.info.part.64, that is causing cells to
> not be assigned to any MPI task? Have you checked whether the
> fields in the output.nc file are garbage or not -- or perhaps
> whether all time periods look identical to the initial state?
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:27:01PM -0600, Xylar Asay-Davis wrote:
>    
>> Mat,
>>
>> Could you send the namelist.input file you're using, too?  Who knows,
>> maybe something useful there?
>>
>> I don't think the F is an indication of the problem.  If I'm reading the
>> code correctly, it just indicates that the timer (not the code) is no
>> longer running.  If you did a call to the code that prints the timing
>> information before calling timer_stop(), then this flag would be T instead.
>>
>>
>> -Xylar
>>
>> On 4/16/10 2:16 PM, Mathew Maltrud wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi Michael and Todd--
>>>
>>> i've been trying to run the 1/10 dipole POP grid in the sw
>>> configuration and am getting something i haven't seen before.  all
>>> appears normal--all mpi process are going, etc.  the *.err files say
>>> it is looping over timesteps, though clearly nothing is being done
>>> (happening too fast).there's no output.nc file.   here are examples
>>> of the log.0000.* files (running on 64 cores):
>>>
>>> mm at cy-2.lanl.gov {10}% tail log.0000.err
>>>     Doing timestep           11
>>>     Doing timestep           12
>>>     Doing timestep           13
>>>     Doing timestep           14
>>>     Doing timestep           15
>>>     Doing timestep           16
>>>     Doing timestep           17
>>>     Doing timestep           18
>>>     Doing timestep           19
>>>     Doing timestep           20
>>> mm at cy-2.lanl.gov {11}% tail log.0000.out
>>>
>>>      TIMINGS (process:event,running,cpu,wall,100*(wall/total wall))
>>>         0 : total time          F        0.00000      196.55210
>>>
>>>         0 : initialize          F        0.00000       67.82460   34.51
>>>         0 : time integration    F        0.00000       11.05870    5.63
>>>
>>> so the 'F' is a clue, but i don't know what it means.  note that the
>>> grid.nc file looks ok, and i successfully ran the 4/10 version of this
>>> grid earlier this week.
>>>
>>> any hints?  maybe not enough memory?  there are about 6 million cells...
>>>
>>> thanks...
>>> -mat
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>>
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