On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Johannes Ring <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Mikael Mortensen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 04 Feb 2015, at 17:53, Johannes Ring <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Running the following script works fine in serial but fails to run in 
>>> parallel:
>>>
>>> from dolfin import *
>>>
>>> filename = "mesh3d.h5"
>>>
>>> # Write to file
>>> mesh0 = UnitCubeMesh(10, 10, 10)
>>> mesh_file = HDF5File(mesh0.mpi_comm(), filename, "w")
>>> mesh_file.write(mesh0, "/my_mesh")
>>> mesh_file.close()
>>>
>>> # Read from file
>>> mesh1 = Mesh()
>>> mesh_file = HDF5File(mesh0.mpi_comm(), filename, "r")
>>> mesh_file.read(mesh1, "/my_mesh", False)
>>> mesh_file.close()
>>>
>>> The error message is attached. Any idea what the problem could be?
>>
>> I think the MPI version is too old. I had the same problem with h5py some 
>> time ago and I made it go away with a more recent MPI version. I found some 
>> advice on the net saying that the threading support in the openMPI 1.6 
>> series what not very good and the advice was to upgrade. Cannot remember 
>> where I found the advice, but I followed it and it worked.
>
> Ok, great. I will try a newer version of OpenMPI.
>

If you have the choice, I recommend MPICH over OpenMPI. Most MPI
problems will then go away . . .  .

Garth

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