Hello, we are experiencing unresolvable problems with the latest Materials Studio version on our Linux cluster. Typical error messages that occur look like this:
Job started on host alcc112 at Mon Jul 19 10:49:11 2021
forrtl: severe (174): SIGSEGV, segmentation fault occurred Image PC Routine Line Source libDFTD.so 0000145FECA4BEF2 for__signal_handl Unknown Unknown libpthread-2.28.s 0000145FECD93DD0 Unknown Unknown Unknown libc-2.28.so 0000145FE9D862A6 strtok_r Unknown Unknown libmpi.so.12 0000145FEB76B991 __I_MPI___intel_s Unknown Unknown libmpi.so.12 0000145FEB625BE5 Unknown Unknown Unknown libmpi.so.12 0000145FEB6288F4 Unknown Unknown Unknown libmpi.so.12 0000145FEB5C964B Unknown Unknown Unknown libmpi.so.12 0000145FEB5B6BDB MPI_Init Unknown Unknown libmpifort.so.12 0000145FEB004240 MPI_INIT Unknown Unknown castepexe.exe 00000000006288A4 comms_mp_comms_in 847 comms.mpi.F90 castepexe.exe 0000000000410193 MAIN__.V 149 castep.f90 castepexe.exe 000000000040AD62 Unknown Unknown Unknown libc-2.28.so 0000145FE9D1F6A3 __libc_start_main Unknown Unknown castepexe.exe 000000000040AC69 Unknown Unknown Unknown .
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Our hardware is: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 (Product ID: 755258-B21) 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz, 512GB RAM (16 x 32GB). CentOS V8. Any idea what might go wrong ? The message occurs on any CASTEP parallel run submitted to this node. We have installed *exactly* the recommended hard- and software.