The alps ess component is obsolete. It relies on header
files only present in very old CLE (Cray Linux) 3.X for
the Cray XT series. As support for these systems is being
dropped starting with release 1.9, this code is being removed.
It turns out that the alps plm code was developed only
on cray systems that were running batch schedulers.
However, for bring up and development systems, its not
at all uncommon for there to be no batch scheduler, and
thus to orte it appears that orte_num_allocated_nodes
is always zero. This forces a user using mpirun on such
a system to always specify a host list:
mpirun -n 4 -N 1 -host 32,45,68 ....
just to get the job to run, but then since the -L argument for aprun
is never built, the app always runs on the first batch of nodes that
aprun finds available.
When using the native aprun launcher, it was observed that
there were frequent memory corruption errors occuring either
during a PMI kvs-fence operation, or at mpi termation during
opal cleanup of allocated objects. This was especially bad
when using
aprun --c none
In some cases, the application would even just hang in finalize
if using ptmalloc, owing to some kind of infinite loop in
cleanup of small blocks, etc.
It turns out that the proble was in orte_ess_base_proc_binding's
improper use of opal_hwloc_base_get_available_cpus. The cpuset
(bitmap) returned from that function is not meant to be freed
by the caller.
This problem is likely never observed when using the mpirun launcher
as there's an early exit if the OMPI_MCA_orte_bound_at_launch
environment variable is set.
This commit was SVN r32809.
Mimick the btl/tcp protocol to solve the race condition that happens
when two peers try to connect to each other at the same time
cmr=v1.8.4:reviewer=rhc
This commit was SVN r32799.
during RTE abort as that is happening in a thread, and (at least in some
environments) doesn't result in the main thread being immediately
terminated. Instead, we wind up going thru orte_finalize in the main
thread, which isn't what we want.
So replace the call to "exit" with the "quick exit" variant "_exit", which
causes the entire process to exit immediately.
(custom patch has been posted for 1.8.3)
This commit was SVN r32780.
The ess pmi module was not handling aprun launched
daemons. All daemons were thinking they were vpid 1.
Also, turns out that on cray systems using MOM nodes
for launched jobs, just detecting whether or not a
process is in a PAGG container is not sufficient.
Crank up the priority of the alps PLM component in the
event that the configure detected the presence of both
slurm and alps.
Have the ESS pmi component open the pmix framework and
select a pmix component.
This commit was SVN r32773.
"NULL" doesn't meany anything to the user, and is somewhat confusing
to see in an error message. "<unknown>" at least indicates that
there's an error, and we know who the peer is.
This commit was SVN r32747.
Replace our old, clunky timing setup with a much nicer one that is only available if configured with --enable-timing. Add a tool for profiling clock differences between the nodes so you can get more precise timing measurements. I'll ask Artem to update the Github wiki with full instructions on how to use this setup.
This commit was SVN r32738.
Trivial fix from r32686: don't output to stream 0, but rather to
orte_plm_base_framework.framework_output (this is the way it was
before r32686). In reality, this is going to end up being stream 0,
anyway, but we might as well be pedantically correct...
Refs trac:4897.
This commit was SVN r32726.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r32686 --> open-mpi/ompi@4df1aa63f7
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 4897 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4897
So add a new function for wrapping MCA arguments, and tell the backend parser to ignore/remove leading/trailing quotes.
cmr=v1.8.3:reviewer=jsquyres
This commit was SVN r32686.
WHAT: Merge the PMIx branch into the devel repo, creating a new
OPAL “lmix” framework to abstract PMI support for all RTEs.
Replace the ORTE daemon-level collectives with a new PMIx
server and update the ORTE grpcomm framework to support
server-to-server collectives
WHY: We’ve had problems dealing with variations in PMI implementations,
and need to extend the existing PMI definitions to meet exascale
requirements.
WHEN: Mon, Aug 25
WHERE: https://github.com/rhc54/ompi-svn-mirror.git
Several community members have been working on a refactoring of the current PMI support within OMPI. Although the APIs are common, Slurm and Cray implement a different range of capabilities, and package them differently. For example, Cray provides an integrated PMI-1/2 library, while Slurm separates the two and requires the user to specify the one to be used at runtime. In addition, several bugs in the Slurm implementations have caused problems requiring extra coding.
All this has led to a slew of #if’s in the PMI code and bugs when the corner-case logic for one implementation accidentally traps the other. Extending this support to other implementations would have increased this complexity to an unacceptable level.
Accordingly, we have:
* created a new OPAL “pmix” framework to abstract the PMI support, with separate components for Cray, Slurm PMI-1, and Slurm PMI-2 implementations.
* Replaced the current ORTE grpcomm daemon-based collective operation with an integrated PMIx server, and updated the grpcomm APIs to provide more flexible, multi-algorithm support for collective operations. At this time, only the xcast and allgather operations are supported.
* Replaced the current global collective id with a signature based on the names of the participating procs. The allows an unlimited number of collectives to be executed by any group of processes, subject to the requirement that only one collective can be active at a time for a unique combination of procs. Note that a proc can be involved in any number of simultaneous collectives - it is the specific combination of procs that is subject to the constraint
* removed the prior OMPI/OPAL modex code
* added new macros for executing modex send/recv to simplify use of the new APIs. The send macros allow the caller to specify whether or not the BTL supports async modex operations - if so, then the non-blocking “fence” operation is used, if the active PMIx component supports it. Otherwise, the default is a full blocking modex exchange as we currently perform.
* retained the current flag that directs us to use a blocking fence operation, but only to retrieve data upon demand
This commit was SVN r32570.
providing a netmask of 0 to opal_net_samenetwork results in everything
looking like it is on the same network. Hence, we were not retaining any
of the alternative addresses, so we had no other way to check them.
Refs trac:4870
This commit was SVN r32556.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 4870 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4870
As part of reviewing CMR #4860, I talked through r32517 with Ralph.
In attempt to fix various rsh quoting problems, r32517 removed all the
quoting from the main code path and then only added it back in at the
end in some cases.
This commit puts back the quoting parts that were removed in r32517
(r32517 fixed 2 other important bugs: a) change "--<foo>" to "--mca
<foo_equivalent> 1" so that de-duplication works, and b) change a !=
to ==).
refs trac:4860
This commit was SVN r32524.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r32517 --> open-mpi/ompi@7342bce58f
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 4860 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4860
