Global Arrays 5.9.2: analysis of three test suite failures on Discoverer CPU cluster
Global Arrays underpins a number of computational chemistry codes, NWChem among them, which makes the correctness of its distributed operations a practical concern rather than an academic one. We recently built GA 5.9.2 on an AMD EPYC compute node with GCC, Open MPI 5.0.10 and OpenBLAS, added the test suite to our build recipe for the first time, and watched three of the seventy-nine tests fail. This post walks through how we established that the failures were upstream defects rather…