I just filed it:

http://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/363


On 9/11/06 7:31 PM, "Graham E Fagg" <f...@cs.utk.edu> wrote:

> Hi Christian, do you have the ticket #, I just looked and didn't see it
> listed...
> 
> G.
> 
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Christian Siebert wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I stumbled across a serious bug in the tuned component of Open MPI,
>> which crashes for example the well-known HPL benchmark in conjunction
>> with the "native MPI_Bcast() patch" [1].
>> 
>> The problem is within the function ompi_coll_tuned_bcast_intra_chain(),
>> which does mainly the following:
>> 
>>  ompi_ddt_type_size( datatype, &typelng );
>>  segcount = segsize / typelng;
>>  num_segments = count / segcount;
>> 
>> Whenever you have a constructed type with a size larger than 'segsize'
>> (16384), you'll get a 'seqcount' of zero and finally a division by zero.
>> 
>> Happy fixing!
>> 
>>  Christian
>> 
>> [1] http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~chsi/hpl/
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Graham.
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