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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>As part of
qualification testing on my new cluster, I have a small megablast run.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Every time I run it,
two nodes crash. Not the same two nodes every time, so doesn’t look
like a hardware problem.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>I’m going to
drill down and see if I can find a small sample that reliably takes down the
machine. Meantime, I thought I’d ask, have others seen this?
We are running on SuperMicro dual Xeon nodes, the O/S is RHE4 WS.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Prior to
constructing this test set, megablast was crashing occasionally, but not taking
down the whole machine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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