[Phicau]

Dear all,

I finally spared some time to install foam-extend 3.2 and test IHFOAM in it. Happily enough, everything compiles out of the box without any changes from previous versions.

I also encountered the same problems as in versions 3.0 and 3.1: running in parallel fails due to commsType being set to blocking. (See http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-ex...swak4foam/123/ ). The solution that I have been using until now is the one outlined here: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/C...orted_Versions

Basically, changing in the commsType in $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/controlDict by nonBlocking, used to make the trick. However, in version 3.2, controlDict has been replaced by controlDict-EXAMPLE. Changing the value there, does not work, copying the file over and naming it controlDict does not work either.

Any solutions to set commsType in 3.2?

Thanks!

Pablo

[Phicau]

Updates:

I've traced the problem back to foam-extend-3.2/src/foam/db/IOstreams/Pstreams/Pstream.C, where the way that commsType is set has changed:

// Default commsType
// Foam::Pstream::commsTypes Foam::Pstream::defaultCommsType
// (
//     commsTypeNames
//     [
//         debug::optimisationSwitches().lookupOrAddDefault
//         (
//             "commsType",
//             word("blocking")
//         )
//     ]
// );


const Foam::debug::optimisationSwitch
Foam::Pstream::defaultCommsType
(
    "commsType",
//     "nonBlocking",
//     "scheduled",
    "blocking",
    "blocking, nonBlocking, scheduled"
);

The solution to select a different type of commsType is including the following text in the controlDict file of your case:

OptimisationSwitches
{
    commsType       nonBlocking;
}

I will soon update IHFOAM's tutorials to reflect this change.

Best,

Pablo

[Thamali]

Hi,
I know this is a little bit old thread,but I had the same problem.

I got the follwong error during parallel running of a case of simpleIbFoam.

Fatal error in MPI_Recv: Message truncated, error stack:
MPI_Recv(224).....................: MPI_Recv(buf=0x7ffd39a14590, count=24, MPI_PACKED, src=0, tag=1, MPI_COMM_WORLD, status=0x7ffd39a144f0) failed
MPIDI_CH3U_Receive_data_found(131): Message from rank 0 and tag 1 truncated; 16992 bytes received but buffer size is 24

I tried the following in my case file and it didn't work for me.

OptimisationSwitches
{
    commsType       nonBlocking;
}

Any idea why it doesn't work?

Thank in advance.
Thamali