Good afternoon,

Michael Oberg and I are attempting to get PVFS2 working on NCAR's 1-rack
BlueGene/L system using ZeptoOS. We ran into a snag at over 8 BG/L I/O nodes
(>256 compute nodes).

We've been using the mpi-io-test program shipped with PVFS2 to test the
system. For cases up to and including 8 I/O nodes (256 coprocessor or 512
virtual node mode tasks), everything works fine. Larger jobs fail with file
not found error messages, such as:

   MPI_File_open: File does not exist, error stack:
   ADIOI_BGL_OPEN(54): File /pvfs2/mattheww/_file_0512_co does not exist

The file is created on the PVFS2 filesystem and has a zero-byte size. We've
run the tests with 512 tasks on 256 nodes, and it successfully created a
8589934592-byte file. Going to 257 nodes fails.

Has anyone seen this behavior before? Are there any PVFS2 server or client
configuration options that you would recommend for a BG/L installation like
this?

Thanks for your time,

Matthew



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