From c5988b31d32d35a782559c79b84e6d915966bd14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Fortner Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:51:20 -0500 Subject: [svn-r19967] Add note on parallel failures to RELEASE.txt --- release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 3251577..024d76b 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -776,6 +776,18 @@ SuSe Linux 2.6.5 Known Problems ============== +* While working on the 1.8.6 release of HDF5, a bug was discovered that can + occur when reading from a dataset in parallel shortly after it has been + written to collectively. The issue was exposed by a new test in the parallel + HDF5 test suite, but had existed before that. We believe the problem lies with + certain MPI implementations and/or filesystems. + + We have provided a pure MPI test program, as well as a standalone HDF5 + program, that can be used to determine if this is an issue on your system. + They should be run across multiple nodes with a varying number of processes. + These programs can be found at: + http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/known_problems/ + * Parallel mode in AIX will fail some of the testcheck_version.sh tests where it treats "exit(134) the same as if process 0 had received an abort signal. This is fixed and will be available in the next release. AKC - 2009/11/3 -- cgit v0.12