Question

I’m trying to run this MPI Fortran code. There are several problems:

1) when I run this code I expect the program to write ‘Enter the number of intervals: (0 quits) ‘ to screen then ask me n. Instead it asks me n first!!! why?

2) if I don’t comment out the line ‘goto 10’, the program keeps asking me n for ever and does not show me anything else!!!

3) if I comment out ‘goto 10’ the program ask me n and then writes results. But, problem is every time the program write part of the result not the complete results. It truncate the output!! below are output for three consecutive time I ran the program:

> mpiexec -n 40 ./a.out
10000000
 Enter the number of intervals: (0 quits)
 pi is    3.14159265358978      Error is   1.287858708565182E-014
 time is   1.687502861022949E-002  seconds

> mpiexec -n 40 ./a.out
10000000
 Enter the number of intervals: (0 quits)
 pi is    3.14159265358978      Error is   1.287858708565182E-014
 time is   1.68750286102

> mpiexec -n 40 ./a.out
10000000
 Enter the number of intervals: (0 quits)
 pi is    3.14159265358978      Error is   1.287858708565182E-014
 time is   1.687502861022949E-002  se

Anyone has any idea what’s going on? I appreciate your help in advance.

      program main
      use mpi
      double precision starttime, endtime
      double precision  PI25DT
      parameter        (PI25DT = 3.141592653589793238462643d0)
      double precision  mypi, pi, h, sum, x, f, a
      double precision starttime, endtime
      integer n, myid, numprocs, i, ierr

      f(a) = 4.d0 / (1.d0 + a*a)   !   function to integrate

      call MPI_INIT(ierr)
      call MPI_COMM_RANK(MPI_COMM_WORLD, myid, ierr)
      call MPI_COMM_SIZE(MPI_COMM_WORLD, numprocs, ierr)

 10   if ( myid .eq. 0 ) then
         print *, 'Enter the number of intervals: (0 quits) '
         read(*,*) n
      endif
      starttime = MPI_WTIME()
!                                 broadcast n
      call MPI_BCAST(n,1,MPI_INTEGER,0,MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr)
!                                 check for quit signal
      if ( n .le. 0 ) goto 30
!                                 calculate the interval size
      h   = 1.0d0/n
      sum = 0.0d0
      do 20 i = myid+1, n, numprocs
         x   = h * (dble(i) - 0.5d0)
         sum = sum + f(x)
 20   continue
      mypi = h * sum
!                                 collect all the partial sums
      call MPI_REDUCE(mypi,pi,1,MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION,MPI_SUM,0, &
                      MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr)
!                                 node 0 prints the answer.
      endtime = MPI_WTIME()
      if (myid .eq. 0) then
         print *, 'pi is ', pi, 'Error is ', abs(pi - PI25DT)
         print *, 'time is ', endtime-starttime, ' seconds'
      endif
      go to 10
 30   call MPI_FINALIZE(ierr)
      stop
      end

Answer 1

you have to explicitly flush your output. I do not remember if fortran has standard flush function, if flush does not work, try flush_.

Basically what happens, your process zero buffers output, and unless the explicitly tell it to display, you end up a funny stuff