On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:51:03AM -0600, Mike McGreevy wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> A new pre-release candidate of our HDF5 1.8.6 release is available
> for testing, and can be downloaded at the following link:
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.6-pre2.tar
> 
> If you have some time to build and test this within the next week,
> it would be highly appreciated. 

- Configured and compiled and passed "make check" on an x86-64 linux 
  system with MPICH2, even when i manually enabled the "complex
  derived datatype" and "special collective i/o" options.

Oh, good news: with the recent release of MPICH2-1.3.0, "mpicc
--version" finally gives you a non-recycled version number. Now you
can check for 1.3.whatever or newer and know those two things work.
Probably a bit late in the game for 1.8.6 but just letting you know.

- configured and compiled on bluegene.  Did not run 'make check' but
  did run the flash-io kernel on 256 processors.

I see, thanks to jumpshot, that you now have many processors doing
metadata updates before closing the file.  for this small test, 21 out
of 256 processors (ranks 0-21) do an MPI_FILE_WRITE_AT.  Used to all
come from rank 0. Neat!  
Could that final metadata update be done collectively?  I think you've
explained to me why it could before, but I'm drawing a blank.

==rob


-- 
Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA

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