Failed unit test: ESMF_FieldIOUTest

[pittwolfe]

Requirements

• Reviewed ESMF User's Guide
• Searched GitHub Discussions

Affiliation(s)

Stony Brook University

ESMF Version

v8.9.0

Issue

I'm trying to build ESMF v8.9.0 on Stony Brook's cluster "Seawulf" for its AMD EPYC nodes. The build itself goes fine and all of the non-exhaustive unit tests pass except for ESMF_FieldIOUTest, for which the test script reports that it "failed to build, failed to execute or crashed during execution" (looks like a crash). The documentation says I should report failed unit tests, so here goes.

The system is Rocky Linux and I'm compiling with Intel's oneAPI 2024 and associated MPI libraries. I've attached the build script (that defines all the ESMF environment variables) as well as the output and log file of the failed test.

My main goal is to get ESMF running well enough to run CESM, so I'm hoping that this particular failure doesn't significantly impact that goal.

build.sh
ESMF_FieldIOUTest.Log
ESMF_FieldIOUTest.stdout.txt

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@oehmke

[anntsay]

Thanks for letting us know. A quick glance is that this may be due to an MPI issue/dependency or a system hiccup based on the log. the support platform for ESMF is documented here.
Recommend action:
(1) Try not to set the ESMF_OPTLEVEL. In general, first try the default ESMF config/build option as much as possible to create a baseline.
(2) If everything else works, CESM may most likely work. Please go ahead to try with CESM. If there is problem with CESM please open another discussion.