[Coin-ipopt] Is Ipopt + MUMPS thread safe?

[Javier Pedrido]

The offender seems to be MUMPS, I will have to synchronize the solving code.
Thanks for your quick reply,
Javier

>From: "Damien Hocking" <damien at khubla.com>
>To: coin-ipopt at list.coin-or.org
>Subject: Re: [Coin-ipopt] Is Ipopt + MUMPS thread safe?
>Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:18:34 -0600
>
>I'm pretty sure IPOPT isn't thread-safe.  MUMPS definitely isn't.  If you 
>want to run two separate solves in two threads, you need a separate 
>instance of IPOPT in each thread.  Watch your BLAS and LAPACK libraries 
>too, if they're old F77 codes, they might have things like SAVE statements, 
>which means you should only run one instance in any process space.
>
>Damien
>   _____
>
>From: Javier Pedrido [mailto:javierpedrido at hotmail.com]
>To: coin-ipopt at list.coin-or.org
>Sent: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:39:45 -0600
>Subject: [Coin-ipopt] Is Ipopt + MUMPS thread safe?
>
>Hi,
>
>   I was trying the new Java interface and whenever I run it from 2 
>different
>   threads, Ipopt crashes. Ipopt uses MUMPS as linear solver and was 
>compiled
>   with g95/g++ and with ifort/cl. Both builds crash in multi-threaded
>   environments. Am I doing something wrong or Ipopt/MUMPS are not thread 
>safe?
>
>   Thanks in advance,
>   Javier
>
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