This is a point-in-time update that includes support for several new PMIx features, mostly focused on debuggers and "instant on":
* initial prototype support for PMIx-based debuggers. For the moment, this is restricted to using the DVM. Supports direct launch of apps under debugger control, and indirect launch using prun as the intermediate launcher. Includes ability for debuggers to control the environment of both the launcher and the spawned app procs. Work continues on completing support for indirect launch
* IO forwarding for tools. Output of apps launched under tool control is directed to the tool and output there - includes support for XML formatting and output to files. Stdin can be forwarded from the tool to apps, but this hasn't been implemented in ORTE yet.
* Fabric integration for "instant on". Enable collection of network "blobs" to be delivered to network libraries on compute nodes prior to local proc spawn. Infrastructure is in place - implementation will come later.
* Harvesting and forwarding of envars. Enable network plugins to harvest envars and include them in the launch msg for setting the environment prior to local proc spawn. Currently, only OmniPath is supported. PMIx MCA params control which envars are included, and also allows envars to be excluded.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Castain <rhc@open-mpi.org>
Debounce "unreachable" notifications for tools when they disconnect
Enable the -x cmd line option for prun
Signed-off-by: Ralph Castain <rhc@open-mpi.org>
(cherry picked from commit 0a5b36180a22959654461ac1303cec35313f8b4a)
Still in the "needs to be done" category:
* mapping/ranking/binding options aren't correctly supported
* if the DVM encounters some errors (e.g., not enough resources for the job), the resulting error is globally set and impacts any subsequent job submission
Signed-off-by: Ralph Castain <rhc@open-mpi.org>
Unlike "orterun", "prun" is a PMIx-only program that discovers the DVM connection instead of requiring that we explicitly provide it. Only build "prun" if PMIx v2.x is available.
This gets the DVM working again, but still is showing problems for multiple executions. I'll detail those in a separate issue. Thus, the DVM should still be considered "broken".
Signed-off-by: Ralph Castain <rhc@open-mpi.org>
