When running the following regression tests with a different number of MPI tasks and then comparing with matrix.base, the regression tests do not reproduce:
./bin/run_test -s MPI -s PDLIB -w work_c -g c -f -p mpirun -n 36 ../model ww3_tp2.17
./bin/run_test -s MPI -s PDLIB -w work_mb -m grdset_b -f -p mpirun -n 36 ../model ww3_tp2.17
./bin/run_test -s MPI -s PDLIB -w work_mc -m grdset_c -f -p mpirun -n 36 ../model ww3_tp2.17
./bin/run_test -s MPI -s PDLIB -w work_pdlib -g pdlib -f -p mpirun -n 36 ../model ww3_tp2.6