[tareqkh]

Hello Foamers,

I have been running a special case using simpleFoam and came to a question that some of you might have experienced. I am trying to monitor some results including the residual using simpleFoam > log.simpleFoam command, but when I switch to mpirun -np 12 simpleFoam -parallel > log.simpleFoam, some of the output that the simpleFoam provides become 0 instead of the real values. Has anyone had this issue before could tell us the reason of not getting the results in parallel?

Best,

[Saideep]

Hi,

I generally use "mpiexec -n 12 solverName -parallel > log&".

I am not sure why do you need log.simpleFoam. But I never had a problem with my statement either run on parallel or on a single core(by removing the mpi related part).

Saideep

[tareqkh]

Originally Posted by Saideep

Hi,

I generally use "mpiexec -n 12 solverName -parallel > log&".

I am not sure why do you need log.simpleFoam. But I never had a problem with my statement either run on parallel or on a single core(by removing the mpi related part).

Saideep

Hello Saideep,

Thank you for the answer. However, I am using a modified simpleFoam i.e. something relevant to my project. So now, the modified simpleFoam doesn't provide an output when I run in parallel. Any idea, where to look in the source code to fix the issue about not getting the results in parallel.

Best,

[tareqkh]

Hello Foamers,

I have been running a special case using a modified simpleFoam and came to a question that some of you might have experienced. I am trying to monitor some results including the residual using simpleFoam > log.simpleFoam command, but when I switch to mpirun -np 12 simpleFoam -parallel > log.simpleFoam, some of the output that the simpleFoam provides become 0 instead of the real values. Has anyone had this issue before could tell us the reason of not getting the results in parallel? Any idea, where to look in the source code to fix the issue about not getting the results in parallel.


Best,

[Saideep]

Hi,

It is a bit strange. Few things here. From what I understand is that,
1. your modified simpleFOAM is working when not using mpi. Can you check your results. It shall be spurious. I guess the problem comes from the modification part.

2. if results behave as you expect then the culprit is mpi, but I never encountered a problem with mpi on modifications.

Saideep

[Traction]

Hey,

just to be sure: Do you use the specific mpi reduce operations for generating the output in your modification ?

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: I'm very late to this discussion, but from the description, it seems that this was a bug. But only by knowing the OpenFOAM version and the function objects used, would it be possible to at least know if this is a known bug or not.