Folding Forum

arfyness wrote: The crash reporting process, on the other hand, should DEFINITELY be built into the client / server communication structure, whether directly to the Pande group, or via assignment servers. This seems to me a fairly obvious concept which still to escapes the attention it deserves. C'mon, I even have a bittorrent client (Miro) that calls home with crash-report details.

I agree it would be important to get better reporting here. However, please note a couple of items. Our non-SMP clients do crash reporting. Here's the problem for SMP: SMP has to use MPI, which means that there's a program in between our client and the core (mpirun). When the core crashes, mpirun doesn't give any useful info and so our client can't know that something bad has happened.

We're looking into what we need to do to work around this, but that's the situation. It's not that it's not been considered or that it's trivial. It's something very much on our minds. Hopefully we can have this resolved ASAP.