The headnode/childnode issue is usually an architecture mismatch. You can target a more generic architecture to get around this; see the discussion in this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-dev/Eqp0GhZWxME/3mGKX1l_L9gJ
ps: this should go in the FAQ... if someone new on here wants to make a first Julia pull request: click the "Edit on GitHub" button at the top-right while viewing the documentation. Add an entry for this, and click "Submit". On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:12 PM, moritz braun <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All > > Due to our provided not being able / willing to provide is with updates > for the Lustre drivers we are currently stuck with > a 2.6.32 Kernel from 2011 on our 128 Nodes cluster. > Unfortunately, our current setup will not change for the next 18 months or > so until the upgrade has gone on Tender..... > > I tried the following > 1. Compilation with the gcc toolchain while disabling AVX with > OPENBLAS_NO_AVX = 1 > This had worked on a single SMP 32 processor server running REL 6.5. > On REL 6.2. it only worked for the headnode. On the other nodes the > executable resulted in a binary format error. > 2. using one of the generic 64 bit builds. > Worked on headnode, but broke compute nodes > 3. Compiliation using icc,icpc and ifc as described in > http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TheParallelUniverse_Issue_17.pdf > This failed with difficult to understand and hidden errors. > ( I will try again soon and post the output of it!) > > I am a bit a the end of my knowledge! > > Any hints would be appreciated. > > > regards > > Moritz Braun >
