So (finally) consolidate these two fields into one "slots" field. Add a field in orte_job_t to indicate when all the procs for a job will be launched together, so that staged operations can know when MPI operations are allowed.
This commit was SVN r27239.
For those nodes (and *only* those nodes) where the user does *not* specify a slot count, we will set the number of slots according to their direction: either to the number of cores, numas, sockets, or hwthreads. Otherwise, the slot count is set to 1.
Note that the default behavior remains unchanged: in the absence of any value for #slots, and in the absence of any directive to set #slots, we will set #slots=1.
This commit was SVN r27236.
1. if a hostfile is given, then add the nodes found in that hostfile to our list - i.e., the resulting allocation contains the UNION of all nodes specified in hostfiles from across all apps.
2. any app that has no hostfile but has a dash-host, will have those nodes added to the list
3. any app that fails to have a hostfile or a dash-host will be given the default hostfile, if we have it
Each app will subsequently be filtered using their hostfile and/or dash-host data to ensure that the app only has access to the hosts it specified
Note that any relative node syntax found in the hostfiles or dash-host data will generate an error in this scenario, so only non-relative syntax can be present
This commit was SVN r27223.
Roll in the ORTE state machine. Remove last traces of opal_sos. Remove UTK epoch code.
Please see the various emails about the state machine change for details. I'll send something out later with more info on the new arch.
This commit was SVN r26242.
Detect the addition of fqdn nodes in the allocation. If not found, then strip all incoming hostnames from daemons of any domain info when matching those names against the names in the node pool.
Leave some protection and "live" diagnostic output in place so we can continue to detect problems across all environments.
This commit was SVN r25557.
Brian dealt with this in the past by creating platform files and using "no-build" to block the components. This was clunky, but acceptable when only one organization was using that option. However, that number has now expanded to at least two more locations.
Accordingly, make --without-rte-support actually work by adding appropriate configury to prevent components from building when they shouldn't. While doing so, remove two frameworks (db and rmcast) that are no longer used as ORCM comes to a close (besides, they belonged in ORCM now anyway). Do some minor cleanups along the way.
This commit was SVN r25497.
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/ProcessPlacement
The wiki page is incomplete at the moment, but I hope to complete it over the next few days. I will provide updates on the devel list. As the wiki page states, the default and most commonly used options remain unchanged (except as noted below). New, esoteric and complex options have been added, but unless you are a true masochist, you are unlikely to use many of them beyond perhaps an initial curiosity-motivated experimentation.
In a nutshell, this commit revamps the map/rank/bind procedure to take into account topology info on the compute nodes. I have, for the most part, preserved the default behaviors, with three notable exceptions:
1. I have at long last bowed my head in submission to the system admin's of managed clusters. For years, they have complained about our default of allowing users to oversubscribe nodes - i.e., to run more processes on a node than allocated slots. Accordingly, I have modified the default behavior: if you are running off of hostfile/dash-host allocated nodes, then the default is to allow oversubscription. If you are running off of RM-allocated nodes, then the default is to NOT allow oversubscription. Flags to override these behaviors are provided, so this only affects the default behavior.
2. both cpus/rank and stride have been removed. The latter was demanded by those who didn't understand the purpose behind it - and I agreed as the users who requested it are no longer using it. The former was removed temporarily pending implementation.
3. vm launch is now the sole method for starting OMPI. It was just too darned hard to maintain multiple launch procedures - maybe someday, provided someone can demonstrate a reason to do so.
As Jeff stated, it is impossible to fully test a change of this size. I have tested it on Linux and Mac, covering all the default and simple options, singletons, and comm_spawn. That said, I'm sure others will find problems, so I'll be watching MTT results until this stabilizes.
This commit was SVN r25476.
Over the course of time, usage of static ports got corrupted in several places, the "parent" info got incorrectly reset, etc. So correct all that and get the regex-based wireup going again.
Also, don't pass node lists if static ports aren't enabled - they are of no value to the orted and just create the possibility of overly-long cmd lines.
This commit was SVN r24860.
This merges the branch containing the revamped build system based around converting autogen from a bash script to a Perl program. Jeff has provided emails explaining the features contained in the change.
Please note that configure requirements on components HAVE CHANGED. For example. a configure.params file is no longer required in each component directory. See Jeff's emails for an explanation.
This commit was SVN r23764.
The problem was tracked to use of the grpcomm.onesided_barrier to control daemon/mpirun termination. This relied on messaging -and- required that the program counter jump from the errmgr back to grpcomm. On rare occasions, this jump did not occur, causing mpirun to hang.
This patch looks more invasive than it is - most of the affected files simply had one or two lines removed. The essence of the change is:
* pulled the job_complete and quit routines out of orterun and orted_main and put them in a common place
* modified the errmgr to directly call the new routines when termination is detected
* removed the grpcomm.onesided_barrier and its associated RML tag
* add a new "num_routes" API to the routed framework that reports back the number of dependent routes. When route_lost is called, the daemon's list of "children" is checked and adjusted if that route went to a "leaf" in the routing tree
* use connection termination between daemons to track rollup of the daemon tree. Daemons and HNP now terminate once num_routes returns zero
Also picked up in this commit is the addition of a new bool flag to the app_context struct, and increasing the job_control field from 8 to 16 bits. Both trivial.
This commit was SVN r23429.
(OMPI_ERR_* = OPAL_SOS_GET_ERR_CODE(ret)), since the return value could be a
SOS-encoded error. The OPAL_SOS_GET_ERR_CODE() takes in a SOS error and returns
back the native error code.
* Since OPAL_SUCCESS is preserved by SOS, also change all calls of the form
(OPAL_ERROR == ret) to (OPAL_SUCCESS != ret). We thus avoid having to
decode 'ret' to get the native error code.
This commit was SVN r23162.
BSD license. Consequently, a more restrictive licensing clause that was
originally associated with the LoadLeveler sample code documentation and
replicated in a comment block in this file has been removed.
This commit was SVN r22947.
Aleksej Saushev.
Dont use bash or bashism in shell scripts
We should use Posix' setpgid(0,0), which is equivalent to setpgrp().
This commit was SVN r22829.
In CMake 2.6 and earlier, this function add dependencies for targets and also link the target libraries automatically, but in CMake 2.8,this behavior has been changed, i.e. it will only add the dependencies but no link, which will cause linking errors at compilation time.
This commit was SVN r22405.
Add a missing value for the configure file.
Fix the bug that generating wrong svn version number.
Correct the wrong string length of the headnode name.
cmr:v1.5
cmr:v1.3.4
This commit was SVN r22219.
Continue the reorganization of the configure system. Move files from the main config directory to their appropriate level-specific config directories. Modify the configure system to correctly handle compiler detection, test, and setup so that all things pertaining to opal and orte are done at the lower level, with the ompi configure system only looking at mpi-specific options.
Ensure the wrapper compilers for orte and ompi only get built when appropriate. Add support for c++ to the orte wrapper compilers, both script and non-script versions.
This commit was SVN r22138.
#if defined (c_plusplus)
defined (__cplusplus)
followed by
extern "C" {
and the closing counterpart by BEGIN_C_DECLS and END_C_DECLS.
Notable exceptions are:
- opal/include/opal_config_bottom.h:
This is our generated code, that itself defines BEGIN_C_DECL and
END_C_DECL
- ompi/mpi/cxx/mpicxx.h:
Here we do not include opal_config_bottom.h:
- Belongs to external code:
opal/mca/backtrace/darwin/MoreBacktrace/MoreDebugging/MoreBacktrace.c
opal/mca/backtrace/darwin/MoreBacktrace/MoreDebugging/MoreBacktrace.h
- opal/include/opal/prefetch.h:
Has C++ specific macros that are protected:
- Had #if ... } #endif _and_ END_C_DECLS (aka end up with 2x
END_C_DECLS)
ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib.h
- opal/event/event.h has #ifdef __cplusplus as BEGIN_C_DECLS...
- opal/win32/ompi_process.h: had extern "C"\n {...
opal/win32/ompi_process.h: dito
- ompi/mca/btl/pcie/btl_pcie_lex.l: needed to add *_C_DECLS
ompi/mpi/f90/test/align_c.c: dito
- ompi/debuggers/msgq_interface.h: used #ifdef __cplusplus
- ompi/mpi/f90/xml/common-C.xsl: Amend
Tested on linux using --with-openib and --with-mx
The following do not contain either opal_config.h, orte_config.h or
ompi_config.h
(but possibly other header files, that include one of the above):
ompi/mca/bml/r2/bml_r2_ft.h
ompi/mca/btl/gm/btl_gm_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/gm/btl_gm_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/mx/btl_mx_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_frag.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib_mca.h
ompi/mca/btl/portals/btl_portals_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/portals/btl_portals_frag.h
ompi/mca/btl/sctp/btl_sctp_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/sctp/btl_sctp_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_ft.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/template/btl_template_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/template/btl_template_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_eager_rdma.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_mca.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_proc.h
ompi/mca/mtl/mx/mtl_mx_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/mtl/mx/mtl_mx.h
ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm.h
ompi/mca/pml/cm/pml_cm_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/csum/pml_csum_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_recvfrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/example/pml_example.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_rdmafrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_recvfrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/v/pml_v_output.h
opal/include/opal/prefetch.h
opal/mca/timer/aix/timer_aix.h
opal/util/qsort.h
test/support/components.h
This commit was SVN r21855.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r2 --> open-mpi/ompi@58fdc18855
Add a capability to parse the rankfile to extract node information in place of requiring both hostfile and rankfile for non-RM managed environments. The rankfile is -only- parsed for this IF the hostfile and -host options are not given. Otherwise, those are used to establish allocation info as we did before this commit.
This commit was SVN r21815.
the BATCH_PARTITION_ID anymore, use the ras-alps-command.sh script to
figure out the jobs ID to query from ALPS.
Gracefully report errors, update the help file and parse the sysconfig file
This commit was SVN r21772.
Add ability to store the RM's jobid string to tag the notifier message so that the sys admin knows what job had the problem.
This commit was SVN r21687.
Normally, any non-windows nodes should return NodeStatus_Unreachable, but that's not true. We have noticed that Scientific Linux cluster nodes, which are in the same subnet as the Windows nodes, return NodeStatus_PendingApproval value, and the RAS CCP takes them as Windows nodes. So let's just use the "Ready" nodes.
This commit was SVN r21510.
- Delete unnecessary header files using
contrib/check_unnecessary_headers.sh after applying
patches, that include headers, being "lost" due to
inclusion in one of the now deleted headers...
In total 817 files are touched.
In ompi/mpi/c/ header files are moved up into the actual c-file,
where necessary (these are the only additional #include),
otherwise it is only deletions of #include (apart from the above
additions required due to notifier...)
- To get different MCAs (OpenIB, TM, ALPS), an earlier version was
successfully compiled (yesterday) on:
Linux locally using intel-11, gcc-4.3.2 and gcc-SVN + warnings enabled
Smoky cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using PGI-8.0.2 + warnings enabled
Lens cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using Pathscale-3.2 + warnings enabled
This commit was SVN r21096.
We currently apply all of the MCA params in the parent job to the child. This commit allows a user to specify additional params for the child job, and to override any pre-existing params with the new value so they can better control behavior of the child job.
This commit was SVN r20989.
In case we use memcmp, strlen, strup and friends include <string.h>
Also several constants.h are not included directly
- Let's have mca_topo_base_cart_create return ompi-errors in
ompi/mca/topo/base/topo_base_cart_create.c
This commit was SVN r20773.
Adapt orte_process_info to orte_proc_info, and
change orte_proc_info() to orte_proc_info_init().
- Compiled on linux-x86-64
- Discussed with Ralph
This commit was SVN r20739.
get bitten by header depending on having already included
the corresponding [opal|orte|ompi]_config.h header.
When separating, things like [OPAL|ORTE|OMPI]_DECLSPEC
are missed.
Script to add the corresponding header in front of all following
(taking care of possible #ifdef HAVE_...)
- Including some minor cleanups to
- ompi/group/group.h -- include _after_ #ifndef OMPI_GROUP_H
- ompi/mca/btl/btl.h -- nclude _after_ #ifndef MCA_BTL_H
- ompi/mca/crcp/bkmrk/crcp_bkmrk_btl.c -- still no need for
orte/util/output.h
- ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_recvreq.c -- no need for mpool.h
- ompi/mca/btl/btl.h -- reorder to fit
- ompi/mca/bml/bml.h -- reorder to fit
- ompi/runtime/ompi_mpi_finalize.c -- reorder to fit
- ompi/request/request.h -- additionally need ompi/constants.h
- Tested on linux/x86-64
This commit was SVN r20720.
Only proc_info.h-internal include file is opal/dss/dss_types.h
- In one case (orte/util/hnp_contact.c) had to add proc_info.h again.
- Local compilation (Linux/x86_64) w/ -Wimplicit-function-declaration
works fine, no errors.
Again, let's have MTT the last word.
This commit was SVN r20631.
Also create mca parameter to force daemonization (previous
behavior) which might be needed on larger clusters or
to make use of the -notify flag with qsub.
This fixes trac:1783.
This commit was SVN r20582.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1783 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1783
Often, orte/util/show_help.h is included, although no functionality
is required -- instead, most often opal_output.h, or
orte/mca/rml/rml_types.h
Please see orte_show_help_replacement.sh commited next.
- Local compilation (Linux/x86_64) w/ -Wimplicit-function-declaration
actually showed two *missing* #include "orte/util/show_help.h"
in orte/mca/odls/base/odls_base_default_fns.c and
in orte/tools/orte-top/orte-top.c
Manually added these.
Let's have MTT the last word.
This commit was SVN r20557.
Error output strings were changed to be unique per code site.
They are still pretty meaningless to the user, but at least now
developers might be able to find which unique place in the code
reported which error.
This commit was SVN r20238.
changes to the already existing ccp components
event/win32.c: merge old FD handling into new
opal_installdirs_windows.c:fix the registry handling
This commit was SVN r20109.
thereby runs apstat twice; and in the process thereof reads the ALPS
appinfo file TWICE; and in addition, experiences a failure sometimes
which causes mpirun to hang. Change this to a looped read attempt
that breaks on success, thereby avoiding failure (except in the most
This commit was SVN r19642.
Add --display-devel-map and --display-devel-alloc to display all the detailed info we used to provide - it is only of use/interest to developers anyway and confuses users.
This commit was SVN r19608.
rename the get_cluster_message function for both ras/plm.
use _umask instead of umask.
add WIN32_DCOM definition to support Windows Vista.
This commit was SVN r19470.
This needs some soak time to ensure we haven't opened any race conditions. I tried to loop everything in the shutdown procedure through that trigger event call to ensure it all goes through the one-time locks as it did before so that someone hitting ctrl-c when we are already shutting down shouldn't cause problems. Just want to let people use it for awhile to verify.
This commit was SVN r19159.
Since OMPI allows mpirun to default to the local node, and since users want to retain the option to co-locate procs with mpirun, we needed another param to block this error case.
This commit was SVN r19135.
* add "register" function to mca_base_component_t
* converted coll:basic and paffinity:linux and paffinity:solaris to
use this function
* we'll convert the rest over time (I'll file a ticket once all
this is committed)
* add 32 bytes of "reserved" space to the end of mca_base_component_t
and mca_base_component_data_2_0_0_t to make future upgrades
[slightly] easier
* new mca_base_component_t size: 196 bytes
* new mca_base_component_data_2_0_0_t size: 36 bytes
* MCA base version bumped to v2.0
* '''We now refuse to load components that are not MCA v2.0.x'''
* all MCA frameworks versions bumped to v2.0
* be a little more explicit about version numbers in the MCA base
* add big comment in mca.h about versioning philosophy
This commit was SVN r19073.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1392 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1392
Fix a few bugs in the mappers:
1. Ensure that bynode with no -np fills all available slots - it just does so with the ranks set bynode instead of byslot
2. fix --nolocal behavior so it works correctly in all cases. We still have to test the host's name using opal_ifislocal in the mapper because the name returned by gethostname to orte_process_info.hostname can be an FQDN, but a hostfile may contain a non-FQDN version.
3. Add missing --nolocal logic to the seq mapper
Oversubscribed mapping seemed to be working okay without repair, so I couldn't verify my own bug report in that regard.
Also included are some preliminary changes to support the modified hostfile behavior, which will be committed shortly:
1. removed the totally useless "allocate" field in the orte_node_t object since every node is automatically allocated for use - and everything ignored the field anyway
2. correctly initialize the slots_alloc field when the allocation is read
This commit was SVN r19030.
Some minor changes to help facilitate debugger support so that both mpirun and yod can operate with it. Still to be completed.
This commit was SVN r18664.
After much work by Jeff and myself, and quite a lot of discussion, it has become clear that we simply cannot resolve the infinite loops caused by RML-involved subsystems calling orte_output. The original rationale for the change to orte_output has also been reduced by shifting the output of XML-formatted vs human readable messages to an alternative approach.
I have globally replaced the orte_output/ORTE_OUTPUT calls in the code base, as well as the corresponding .h file name. I have test compiled and run this on the various environments within my reach, so hopefully this will prove minimally disruptive.
This commit was SVN r18619.
such, the commit message back to the master SVN repository is fairly
long.
= ORTE Job-Level Output Messages =
Add two new interfaces that should be used for all new code throughout
the ORTE and OMPI layers (we already make the search-and-replace on
the existing ORTE / OMPI layers):
* orte_output(): (and corresponding friends ORTE_OUTPUT,
orte_output_verbose, etc.) This function sends the output directly
to the HNP for processing as part of a job-specific output
channel. It supports all the same outputs as opal_output()
(syslog, file, stdout, stderr), but for stdout/stderr, the output
is sent to the HNP for processing and output. More on this below.
* orte_show_help(): This function is a drop-in-replacement for
opal_show_help(), with two differences in functionality:
1. the rendered text help message output is sent to the HNP for
display (rather than outputting directly into the process' stderr
stream)
1. the HNP detects duplicate help messages and does not display them
(so that you don't see the same error message N times, once from
each of your N MPI processes); instead, it counts "new" instances
of the help message and displays a message every ~5 seconds when
there are new ones ("I got X new copies of the help message...")
opal_show_help and opal_output still exist, but they only output in
the current process. The intent for the new orte_* functions is that
they can apply job-level intelligence to the output. As such, we
recommend that all new ORTE and OMPI code use the new orte_*
functions, not thei opal_* functions.
=== New code ===
For ORTE and OMPI programmers, here's what you need to do differently
in new code:
* Do not include opal/util/show_help.h or opal/util/output.h.
Instead, include orte/util/output.h (this one header file has
declarations for both the orte_output() series of functions and
orte_show_help()).
* Effectively s/opal_output/orte_output/gi throughout your code.
Note that orte_output_open() takes a slightly different argument
list (as a way to pass data to the filtering stream -- see below),
so you if explicitly call opal_output_open(), you'll need to
slightly adapt to the new signature of orte_output_open().
* Literally s/opal_show_help/orte_show_help/. The function signature
is identical.
=== Notes ===
* orte_output'ing to stream 0 will do similar to what
opal_output'ing did, so leaving a hard-coded "0" as the first
argument is safe.
* For systems that do not use ORTE's RML or the HNP, the effect of
orte_output_* and orte_show_help will be identical to their opal
counterparts (the additional information passed to
orte_output_open() will be lost!). Indeed, the orte_* functions
simply become trivial wrappers to their opal_* counterparts. Note
that we have not tested this; the code is simple but it is quite
possible that we mucked something up.
= Filter Framework =
Messages sent view the new orte_* functions described above and
messages output via the IOF on the HNP will now optionally be passed
through a new "filter" framework before being output to
stdout/stderr. The "filter" OPAL MCA framework is intended to allow
preprocessing to messages before they are sent to their final
destinations. The first component that was written in the filter
framework was to create an XML stream, segregating all the messages
into different XML tags, etc. This will allow 3rd party tools to read
the stdout/stderr from the HNP and be able to know exactly what each
text message is (e.g., a help message, another OMPI infrastructure
message, stdout from the user process, stderr from the user process,
etc.).
Filtering is not active by default. Filter components must be
specifically requested, such as:
{{{
$ mpirun --mca filter xml ...
}}}
There can only be one filter component active.
= New MCA Parameters =
The new functionality described above introduces two new MCA
parameters:
* '''orte_base_help_aggregate''': Defaults to 1 (true), meaning that
help messages will be aggregated, as described above. If set to 0,
all help messages will be displayed, even if they are duplicates
(i.e., the original behavior).
* '''orte_base_show_output_recursions''': An MCA parameter to help
debug one of the known issues, described below. It is likely that
this MCA parameter will disappear before v1.3 final.
= Known Issues =
* The XML filter component is not complete. The current output from
this component is preliminary and not real XML. A bit more work
needs to be done to configure.m4 search for an appropriate XML
library/link it in/use it at run time.
* There are possible recursion loops in the orte_output() and
orte_show_help() functions -- e.g., if RML send calls orte_output()
or orte_show_help(). We have some ideas how to fix these, but
figured that it was ok to commit before feature freeze with known
issues. The code currently contains sub-optimal workarounds so
that this will not be a problem, but it would be good to actually
solve the problem rather than have hackish workarounds before v1.3 final.
This commit was SVN r18434.
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2008/04/3779.php
{{{
svn merge -r 18276:18380 https://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/tmp-public/jjh-mca-play .
}}}
Any components not in the trunk, but in one of the effected frameworks *must* be
updated. Contact the list, look at the RFC, or look at the diff for how to do this.
Sorry for the early commit of this, but I wanted to get it in today (per RFC) and
didn't know if I would have a chance later today.
This commit was SVN r18381.
Update the rsh tree spawn capability so we spawn the next wave of daemons before launching our own local procs.
Add an ability to encode nodenames for large clusters with contiguous node name numbering schemes - this allows communication of all node names in a few bytes instead of tens-of-bytes/node.
This commit was SVN r18338.
Fix a potential problem with RM-provided nodenames not matching returns from gethostname - ensure that the HNP's nodename gets DNS-resolved when comparing against RM-provided hostnames. Note that this may be an issue for RM-based clusters that don't have local DNS resolution, but hopefully that is more indicative of a poorly configured system.
This commit was SVN r18252.
Only one place used the user name field - session_dir, when formulating the name of the top-level directory. Accordingly, the code for getting the user's id has been moved to the session_dir code.
This commit was SVN r17926.
The change also:
- cleans up and simplifies the command line processing code
- adds an error output if more than one hostfile passed for a single app context
- gets rid of the superfluous orte_app_context_map_t type, and instead use a simple argv of -host options
This commit was SVN r17750.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1124 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1124
about linkers, have all OPAL, ORTE, and OMPI components '''not'' link
against the OPAL, ORTE, or OMPI libraries.
See ttp://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2007/10/4220.php for
details (or https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/Linkers for a
better-formatted version of the same info).
This commit was SVN r16968.
1. taking advantage of the fact that we no longer create the launch message via a GPR trigger. In earlier times, we had the GPR create the launch message based on a subscription. In that mode of operation, we could not guarantee the order in which the data was stored in the message - hence, we had no choice but to parse the message in a loop that checked each value against a list of possible "keys" until the corresponding value was found.
Now, however, we construct the message "by hand", so we know precisely what data is in each location in the message. Thus, we no longer need to send the character string "keys" for each data value any more. This represents a rather large savings in the message size - to give you an example, we typically would use a 30-char "key" for a 2-byte data value. As you can see, the overhead can become very large.
2. sending node-specific data only once. Again, because we used to construct the message via subscriptions that were done on a per-proc basis, the data for each node (e.g., the daemon's name, whether or not the node was oversubscribed) would be included in the data for each proc. Thus, the node-specific data was repeated for every proc.
Now that we construct the message "by hand", there is no reason to do this any more. Instead, we can insert the data for a specific node only once, and then provide the per-proc data for that node. We therefore not only save all that extra data in the message, but we also only need to parse the per-node data once.
The savings become significant at scale. Here is a comparison between the revised trunk and the trunk prior to this commit (all data was taken on odin, using openib, 64 nodes, unity message routing, tested with application consisting of mpi_init/mpi_barrier/mpi_finalize, all execution times given in seconds, all launch message sizes in bytes):
Per-node scaling, taken at 1ppn:
#nodes original trunk revised trunk
time size time size
1 0.10 819 0.09 564
2 0.14 1070 0.14 677
3 0.15 1321 0.14 790
4 0.15 1572 0.15 903
8 0.17 2576 0.20 1355
16 0.25 4584 0.21 2259
32 0.28 8600 0.27 4067
64 0.50 16632 0.39 7683
Per-proc scaling, taken at 64 nodes
ppn original trunk revised trunk
time size time size
1 0.50 16669 0.40 7720
2 0.55 32733 0.54 11048
3 0.87 48797 0.81 14376
4 1.0 64861 0.85 17704
Condensing those numbers, it appears we gained:
per-node message size: 251 bytes/node -> 113 bytes/node
per-proc message size: 251 bytes/proc -> 52 bytes/proc
per-job message size: 568 bytes/job -> 399 bytes/job
(job-specific data such as jobid, override oversubscribe flag, total #procs in job, total slots allocated)
The fact that the two pre-commit trunk numbers are the same confirms the fact that each proc was containing the node data as well. It isn't quite the 10x message reduction I had hoped to get, but it is significant and gives much better scaling.
Note that the timing info was, as usual, pretty chaotic - the numbers cited here were typical across several runs taken after the initial one to avoid NFS file positioning influences.
Also note that this commit removes the orte_process_info.vpid_start field and the handful of places that passed that useless value. By definition, all jobs start at vpid=0, so all we were doing is passing "0" around. In fact, many places simply hardwired it to "0" anyway rather than deal with it.
This commit was SVN r16428.
1. --with-sge, always builds
2. --without-sge, never builds
3. if neither is specified, build if and only if either SGE_ROOT is set or "qrsh" is found in the path
This commit was SVN r16422.
