[Boost-users] Boost.MPI 1.43.0 and openmpi 1.4.2 problems

Subject: [Boost-users] Boost.MPI 1.43.0 and openmpi 1.4.2 problems
From: Benjamin Behringer (benbehringer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-22 05:22:16

Hi,

I'm new to boost and openmpi. I'm on a Mac installed the newest version of openmpi through "port" and compiled boost by myself. There is also an openmpi version coming with my Mac in version 1.2.8. I tried to compile and run a small sample but ran into different problems. So the following example won't work for me with openmpi 1.4.2 (through port) but with openmpi 1.2.8:

#include <boost/mpi.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/serialization/string.hpp>
namespace mpi = boost::mpi;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) 
{
  mpi::environment env(argc, argv);
  mpi::communicator world;

  if (world.rank() == 0) {
    world.send(1, 0, std::string("Hello"));
    std::string msg;
    world.recv(1, 1, msg);
    std::cout << msg << "!" << std::endl;
  } else {
    std::string msg;
    world.recv(0, 0, msg);
    std::cout << msg << ", ";
    std::cout.flush();
    world.send(0, 1, std::string("world"));
  }

  return 0;
}

I compiled with (1.4.2):

openmpic++ boost_mpi_test.cpp -lboost_mpi -lboost_serialization -o boost_mpi_test

Running that test says:

openmpirun -np 2 boost_mpi_test
*** The MPI_Pack_size() function was called before MPI_INIT was invoked.
*** This is disallowed by the MPI standard.
*** Your MPI job will now abort.
[pillepalleben:54081] Abort before MPI_INIT completed successfully; not able to guarantee that all other processes were killed!
*** The MPI_Pack_size() function was called before MPI_INIT was invoked.
*** This is disallowed by the MPI standard.
*** Your MPI job will now abort.
[pillepalleben:54082] Abort before MPI_INIT completed successfully; not able to guarantee that all other processes were killed!

Compiling with (1.2.8):
mpic++ boost_mpi_test.cpp -lboost_mpi -lboost_serialization -o boost_mpi_test

While the test runs fine:
mpirun -np 2 boost_mpi_test
Hello, world!

So shall I use 1.2.8? Why I'm running in those issues?
Thanks in advance, ben