From 40a80d55fb0ee8b938db54daeb7940ae9f615928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert Cheng Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:31:06 -0500 Subject: [svn-r17798] Removed support and known problems of the IRIX, IRIX64 and Tungsten platforms since they have retired. Added known problem of h5repack in AIX -q32 platform. --- release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 44 +++++++------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index efd1b54..ea4a077 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -157,10 +157,6 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release. g++ 4.4.1 20090421 gfortran 4.4.1 20090421 - IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32) MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m - F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m - C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m - Linux 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Feb 4 2009) (jam) PGI C, Fortran, C++ 7.2-1 32-bit @@ -264,8 +260,6 @@ Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP parallel parallel Solaris2.10 32-bit n y n y y y Solaris2.10 64-bit n y n y y y -IRIX64_6.5 32-bit n n n n y y -IRIX64_6.5 64-bit n y y y y y Windows XP n y(4) n(4) y y y Windows XP x64 n y(4) n(4) y y y Windows Vista n n n y y y @@ -289,8 +283,6 @@ Platform Shared Shared Shared Thread- C libs F90 libs C++ libs safe Solaris2.10 32-bit y y y y Solaris2.10 64-bit y y y y -IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y dna y y -IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y y n y Windows XP y y(4) y y Windows XP x64 y y(4) y y Windows Vista y n n y @@ -319,6 +311,13 @@ Cray XT3 2.0.41 n n n n Known Problems ============== +* Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is used. + The error is due to insufficient memory requested. Request a large amount + of runtime memory by setting the following environment variable for more + memory. + LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA + AKC - 2009/10/31 + * The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file is not existing. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has @@ -378,25 +377,6 @@ Known Problems Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem. AKC - 2008/05/28 -* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 - tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a - Linux cluster at NCSA. - - Under some complex selection cases: - 1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value. - 2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt - data may be generated. - These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage - with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other - MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent - IO instead. - - To avoid this behavior, change the following line in your code - H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_COLLECTIVE); - to - H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_INDEPENDENT); - KY - 2007/08/24 - * On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. @@ -410,12 +390,6 @@ Known Problems processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be verified with t_mpi test under testpar. -* On IRIX6.5, when the C compiler version is greater than 7.4, complicated - MPI derived datatype code will work. However, the user should increase - the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value - to use collective irregular selection code. For example, the current - parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test. - * A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled. There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the @@ -452,7 +426,3 @@ Known Problems * There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used. - -* Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in - the INSTALL file sections 4.7 and 4.8. - -- cgit v0.12