Bizarre problems when adding a PPC machine...
Pete Wyckoff
pw at osc.edu
Mon Jan 14 05:57:25 PST 2002
john at computation.com said:
> I really hate to bother the mailing list but this one has me somewhat
> stumped. I have a four node cluster comprising Linux machines and one
> PPC machine. The Linux machines have been adequately tested and play
> well together. That PPC machine is another matter. When I include the
> PPC machine (a Mac 8500 running YellowDog Linux) in my network
> cluster... well things fall apart. Here's what appears on the console
> after running a simple test on my "root" node....
>
>
> [john at adenine examples]$ ./mpirun -np 4 simpleio
> p2_9722: p4_error: Could not allocate memory for commandline args:
> 553648128
Looks like endianness problems in mpich. Complain to those developers,
with followup to this list in case others run into the same problem
later.
-- Pete
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