On 04-09-2010, Mike Lin <mikelin@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Hi Sylvain, Xavier,
> I have encountered what seems to be a serious problem with
> reduce_int_array in ocamlmpi, namely, in a trivial test case it
> successfully returns incorrect results. This is my test code
>

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>
> [mikelin@honest3 ~/]$ uname -a
> Linux honest3.ncsa.uiuc.edu 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp-perfctr
> #7 SMP Tue Nov 10 10:41:00 CST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [mikelin@honest3 ~/]$ which mpiexec
> /usr/local/mvapich2-1.2-intel-ofed-1.2.5.5/bin/mpiexec
>
> see also: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Hardware/Intel64Cluster/
>
> I know the ocamlmpi code has been stable for some time, but I wonder
> if it's been tested on x86_64? Let me know if you're able to reproduce
> this.
>

I can confirm the bug. I have commited a fix in the svn. Though, I am
not an MPI expert.

I think the problem was related to a double in-place re-encoding of
integer in the array. I'll wait for Xavier review to do a release.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall