Folks,
I was wondering if you could help me out with a minor issue. I work on
the GEOS-5 GCM model at NASA Goddard and our Base Libraries include HDF5
and NetCDF4 as we are planning to transition to using parallel NetCDF4
soon in the future.
At the moment, we are doing just fine testing/running with HDF5 1.8.9
and NetCDF 4.2.1.1, but I recently saw that HDF5 updated to 1.8.10 and I
thought I'd test it in the interest of keeping up with current at least
in my mind (I've gotten behind on libraries before). Plus, the INSTALL
file does say: "Versions required are at least HDF5 1.8.8..."
However, I find that while NetCDF compiles just fine with HDF5 1.8.10,
the "make check" tests are another matter. In particular, tst_parallel
"hangs":
Testing very simple parallel I/O with 4 processors...
*** tst_parallel testing very basic parallel access.
*** tst_parallel testing whether we can create file for parallel access
and write to it...
This hang happens with both Intel 11.0.083 + Intel MPI 3.2.2.006 and
Intel 13.0.0.079 + MVAPICH2 1.9a, so I don't think it's MPI-specific.
Plus, those same combinations do "make check" just fine with HDF5
1.8.9+NetCDF 4.2.1.1.
I looked at tst_parallel.c, a pretty simple program, and I couldn't see
anything obvious so it's probably a bit more low-level than I can figure
out at the moment.
Obviously, my "solution" at present is "don't upgrade HDF5 at the
moment", but I was wondering if, perhaps, there is something simple I
might be missing from a configure or make step that should be there but
isn't and was only just exposed by HDF5 1.8.10.
Has anyone else encountered this issue?
Thanks,
Matt Thompson
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Matt Thompson, PhD SSAI, Sr Software Test Engr
NASA GSFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
Code 610.1, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Phone: 301-614-6712 Fax: 301-614-6246
