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  3. When launching Fluent on an LSF cluster you receive the following error: warning, dlopen of libhwloc.so failed /lib/linux_amd64/libhwloc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When launching Fluent on an LSF cluster you receive the following error: warning, dlopen of libhwloc.so failed /lib/linux_amd64/libhwloc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Tagged: 14.5, FLUENT - SYS, hpc, HPC/Parallel, Installation/Licensing/Systems
    • March 17, 2023 at 9:01 am
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      Participant

      Check to see if you have an MPI_ROOT variable defined. Most likely it is set to a version of Platform MPI that is conflicting with the built in version that FLUENT uses. Unset this variable and try again

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