Hi Brock,
That message should only be 2MB. Are you sure its not a mismatch of
message lengths in MPI_Bcast calls?
David
On 01/04/2011 03:47 AM, Brock Palen wrote:
> I have a user who reports that sending a broadcast of
>
> 540*1080 of reals (just over 2GB) fails with this:
>
>
> *** An error occurred in MPI_Bcast
> *** on communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
> *** MPI_ERR_TRUNCATE: message truncated
> *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (your MPI job will now abort)
>
> I was reading the archives and there appears to be an issue with large messages. I was a little confused, is there a way to send messages larger than 2GB?
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> The user has access to some IB machines, per a note in the archives there was an issue with writev() would this issue only be related to messages over ethernet?
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> Thanks just trying to get some clarification.
>
> Brock Palen
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