<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Dear Sir,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I am now trying to using Alps solve Ip problems.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I have <font color="#3333ff">two questions</font>.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000099">First</font>, I solved the knap3(Alps/Alps/Abc/data/knap3.mps) problem using Abc in parallel.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">It generate good log file. I can see the work each process has done.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">And we can see that a few hundred nodes are searched.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">But when I use Blis to solve the same the knap3 problem.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">When it is solved, the information shows that only on node searched. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The depth of the search tree is zero.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Why is this?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000099">Second</font>, I use Abc to solve a MIP problem(MPS file: 72MB, 75861 rows, 115173 columns, 1417123 elements) in parallel using 3(2,4 are tried) machines. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">But the program goes wrong after more or less 2000 seconds with the put out::</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000">Fatal error in MPI_Test: Other MPI error, error stack:</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000">0: MPI_Test(153)..................: MPI_Test(request=0x7fffe1cdbdb4, flag=0x7fffe1cdbdb0, status=0x7fffe1cdbd50) failed</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000">0: MPIDI_CH3I_Progress(150).......: </font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000">0: MPID_nem_mpich2_test_recv(800).: </font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000">0: MPID_nem_tcp_connpoll(1720)....: </font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000">0: state_commrdy_handler(1556)....: </font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000">0: MPID_nem_tcp_recv_handler(1446): socket closed</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000">rank 0 in job 5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>vm3-1_33710<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>caused collective abort of all ranks</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#990000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>exit status of rank 0: return code 1</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Could you tell me why?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Thanks a lot!</font></font></span></p>