Embarassingly parallel fenics

I'm preforming Monte Carlo around a model I implemented in Fenics. Monte Carlo (MC) is embarrassingly parallel --- I'm running each model evaluation in serial (only one node). It works fine if I don't use the parallel code, however, if I try to run MC in parallel I get the error:

*** Error:   Unable to creating EigenVector.
*** Reason:  EigenVector does not support parallel communicators.
*** Where:   This error was encountered inside EigenVector.cpp.

I don't have fenics linked to Petsc, which I think is the reason that I get this error. However, since the actual PDE solve is not in parallel, is there an easy work around?

asked Jan 20, 2017 by davisad FEniCS Novice (470 points)

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Try to download the script and then run:
bash fenics-install.sh

commented Jan 22, 2017 by str FEniCS User (1,600 points)

I this error running bash fenics-install.sh

[vtk] Building vtk/j3p7iviejcrg, follow log with:
[vtk]   tail -f /Users/andrewdavis/.hashdist/tmp/vtk-j3p7iviejcrg/_hashdist/build.log
[vtk|ERROR] Command '[u'/bin/bash', '_hashdist/build.sh']' returned non-zero exit status 1
[vtk|ERROR] command failed (code=1); raising

commented Jan 22, 2017 by davisad FEniCS Novice (470 points)

In my experience sometimes it stops but when you run the script again it can come over the problem. I was able to install FEniCS on a mac with Hashdist some days ago, but I had to restart the script at least 3 times.

commented Jan 23, 2017 by str FEniCS User (1,600 points)

strange --- rerunning the script doesn't seem to change the problem.

I did manage to get the Dolfine cmake to find the petsc library, however, now I get the error:

  Imported target "PETSC::petsc" includes non-existent path
"/usr/local/Cellar/open-mpi/1.8.4_1/include"
  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:
  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.
  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.
  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does 
    not provide.

Indeed, this directory does not exist --- it should be:

/usr/local/Cellar/open-mpi/2.0.1/include

which is what my version of petsc points to. Do you know how to fix this?

commented Jan 23, 2017 by davisad FEniCS Novice (470 points)

I would have a look what is the error message "tail -f /Users/andrewdavis/.hashdist/tmp/vtk-j3p7iviejcrg/_hashdist/build.log"

commented Jan 24, 2017 by str FEniCS User (1,600 points)