WHAT: Open our low-level communication infrastructure by moving all necessary components (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool) down in OPAL
All the components required for inter-process communications are currently deeply integrated in the OMPI layer. Several groups/institutions have express interest in having a more generic communication infrastructure, without all the OMPI layer dependencies. This communication layer should be made available at a different software level, available to all layers in the Open MPI software stack. As an example, our ORTE layer could replace the current OOB and instead use the BTL directly, gaining access to more reactive network interfaces than TCP. Similarly, external software libraries could take advantage of our highly optimized AM (active message) communication layer for their own purpose. UTK with support from Sandia, developped a version of Open MPI where the entire communication infrastucture has been moved down to OPAL (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool). Most of the moved components have been updated to match the new schema, with few exceptions (mainly BTLs where I have no way of compiling/testing them). Thus, the completion of this RFC is tied to being able to completing this move for all BTLs. For this we need help from the rest of the Open MPI community, especially those supporting some of the BTLs. A non-exhaustive list of BTLs that qualify here is: mx, portals4, scif, udapl, ugni, usnic.
This commit was SVN r32317.
It will come back someday.
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This commit was SVN r32044.
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As discovered by the nightly build, r30379 broke the case where
configure does not find a fortran compiler, and no form of
--enable-mpi-fortran was specified.
This commit specifically calls out the difference between a user
specifying that they want Fortran bindings and the default "try to
compile all the Fortran bindings" cases.
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This commit was SVN r30386.
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Each Fortran bindings layer builds on the other. Specifically:
* You can build just mpif.h support
* You can build mpif.h and "use mpi" support
* You can build mpif.h and "use mpi" and "use mpi_f08" support
You cannot build mpif.h and "use mpi_f08" support without also
building "use mpi" support.
This new functionality adds new capabilities to the existing
--enable-fortran-mpi switch. You can now pass the following values:
* --enable-fortran-mpi=no or none: synonyms for --disable-fortran-mpi
(i.e., build no Fortran bindings).
* --enable-fortran-mpi=mpifh: build only mpif.h support
* --enable-fortran-mpi=usempi: build mpif.h and "use mpi" support
* --enable-fortran-mpi=usempif08: build mpif.h, "use mpi", and "use
mpi_f08" support
* --enable-fortran-mpi=yes or all: synonyms for --enable-fortran-mpi
(i.e., no argument), which will attempt to build all 3 Fortran
bindings
cmr=v1.7.4:ticket=4162
This commit was SVN r30379.
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This configure option was only relevant when we were generating TKR
"use mpi" interfaces for MPI subroutines with choice buffers. Now
that we aren't, the only interface that needs to accept a choice
buffer is MPI_SIZEOF (which we have to provide).
And since there's now only several dozen interfaces in the "mpi" TKR
module, there's no reason to not generate ''all'' possible array rank
values (when there were thousands of interfaces, generating 4-vs-7
array ranks per interface per type was a big deal). The default used
to be 4; now we can just hard-code it to 7, the max possible value for
Fortran 2003 (I think the max was raised ?to 11? in F2008, but let's
not go there for now).
cmr=v1.7.5:reviewer=dgoodell:subject=Remove even more dead Fortran configury
This commit was SVN r30257.
more:
- Remove OPAL_ENABLE_MULTI_THREADS, since it didn't really do anything
correctly. Opal always has threads enabled at this point.
- Remove OMPI_ENABLE_PROGRESS_THREADS, since this hasn't worked in
8 years and it has performance issues we'll never be able to
overcome. Note that we have plans for re-adding async progress, using
a hybrid protocol of async and sync sends.
- OMPI_ENABLE_THREAD_MULTIPLE now determines whether the thread lock
macros do the check or not.
- Condition variables are ALWAYS polling right now, which fixes the thread
live-lock currently found when THREAD_MULTIPLE is turned on.
This commit was SVN r29891.
meeting, and RFCed in mid-December (#3424): we no longer build the MPI
C++ bindings by default.
The C++ bindings are still ''there'' -- starting with 1.9, we'll just
be providing a little encouragement to no longer use them.
There are no definite plans to ''remove'' the C++ bindings yet. At
the earliest, we would remove them in the next feature series after
1.9.
This commit was SVN r27755.
config/ directory. We split them apart a while ago in the hopes that
it would simplify things, but it didn't really (e.g., because there
were still some ompi/opal .m4 files in the top-level config/
directory, resulting in developer confusion where any given m4 macro
was defined).
So this commit consolidates them back into the top-level directory for
simplicity.
There's still (at least) two changes that would be nice to make:
1. Split any generated .m4 file (e.g., autogen-generated .m4 files)
into a separate directory somewhere so that a top-level -Iconfig/
will only get our explicitly defined macros, not the autogen stuff
(e.g., with libevent2019 needing to get the visibility macro, but
NOT all the autogen-generated inclusion of component configure.m4
files).
1. Change configure to be of the form:
{{{
# ...a small amount of preamble/setup...
OPAL_SETUP
m4_ifdef([project_orte], [ORTE_SETUP])
m4_ifdef([project_ompi], [OMPI_SETUP])
# ...a small amount of finishing stuff...
}}}
I doubt we'll ever get anything as clean as that, but that would be
the goal to shoot for.
This commit was SVN r27704.
Re-enable "./autogen.sh -no-ompi" again. If you -no-ompi, the entire OMPI
configury is skipped and the entire ompi/ subtree is not built. There's
some simple m4-isms that prune out the relevant parts.
I added ompi/config/, orte/config/, and opal/config/ directories. I moved a
bunch of m4 files from the top-level config/ dir into ompi/config/, and a few
into orte/config/.
Note that all 3 <project>/config directories have a config_files.m4 file. This
file contains the AC_CONFIG_FILES list for that project. The AC_CONFIG_FILES
call cannot be in an AC_DEFUN macro and conditionally called -- if it is
included at all, Autoconf will process it. Hence, these config_files.m4 files
don't AC_DEFUN -- they just have AC_CONFIG_FILES. m4_ifdef() is used to
conditionally include the files or not.
I moved a bunch of obvious OMPI-only m4 files from config/ to ompi/config/,
but I'm sure that there's more that could go. A ticket will be filed with
thoughts on future work in this area.
This commit was SVN r22113.
Thereby move
--with-openib-control-hdr-padding from opal_configure_options.m4
to
--enable-openib-control-hdr-padding in ompi_check_openib.m4
This commit was SVN r21287.
OMPI_* to OPAL_*. This allows opal layer to be used more independent
from the whole of ompi.
NOTE: 9 "svn mv" operations immediately follow this commit.
This commit was SVN r21180.
Add two new configure options that specify:
1. when to add padding to the openib control header - this *only* happens when the configure option is specified
2. when to use the dr-like checksum as opposed to the memcpy checksum. Not selectable at runtime - to eliminate performance impacts, this is a configure-only option
Also removed an unused checksum version from opal/util/crc.h.
The new component still needs a little cleanup and some sync with recent ob1 bug fixes. It was created as a separate module to avoid performance hits in ob1 itself, though most of the code is duplicative. The component is only selectable by either specifying it directly, or configuring with the dr-like checksum -and- setting -mca pml_csum_enable_checksum 1.
Modify the LANL platform files to take advantage of the new module.
This commit was SVN r20846.
and components from the home directory for platforms that are bad at
reading in files from home directory at scale (like Red Storm)
This commit was SVN r20069.
svn merge -r 19823:19821 https://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk ./
I copied the config directory in another location, and the original
.svn directory was replaced by the Open MPI one ... As a result my
first commit, applied the changes on the Open MPI trunk instead of
the other project.
This commit was SVN r19824.
Update the ESS API so we can update the stored arch's should the modex include that info. Update ompi/proc to check/set the arch for remote procs, and add that function call to mpi_init right after the modex is done.
Setup to allow other grpcomm modules to decide whether or not to add the arch to the modex, and to detect if other entries have been made. If not, then the modex can just fall through. Begin setting up some logic in the "basic" module to handle different arch situations.
For now, default to the "bad" module so we will work in all situations, even though we may be sending around more info than we really require.
This fixes ticket #1340
This commit was SVN r18673.
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.
is still to use the C based wrapper compilers (which have many more features
and are more well tested). The Perl compilers are enabled with the option
--enable-script-wrapper-compilers, which also ignores the option
--disable-binaries (ie --enable-script-wrapper-compilers --disable-binaries
will result in perl-based wrapper compilers being installed, but no other
binaries being installed).
This commit was SVN r18655.
Some MPI C interface files saw some spacing changes to conform to the coding standards of Open MPI.
Changed MPI C interface files to use {{{OPAL_CR_ENTER_LIBRARY()}}} and {{{OPAL_CR_EXIT_LIBRARY()}}} instead of just {{{OPAL_CR_TEST_CHECKPOINT_READY()}}}. This will allow the checkpoint/restart system more flexibility in how it is to behave.
Fixed the configure check for {{{--enable-ft-thread}}} so it has a know dependance on {{{--enable-mpi-thread}}} (and/or {{{--enable-progress-thread}}}).
Added a line for Checkpoint/Restart support to {{{ompi_info}}}.
Added some options to choose at runtime whether or not to use the checkpoint polling thread. By default, if the user asked for it to be compiled in, then it is used. But some users will want the ability to toggle its use at runtime.
There are still some places for improvement, but the feature works correctly. As always with Checkpoint/Restart, it is compiled out unless explicitly asked for at configure time. Further, if it was configured in, then it is not used unless explicitly asked for by the user at runtime.
This commit was SVN r17516.
methods (in order of precedence):
1. #pragma ident <ident string> (e.g., Intel and Sun)
1. #ident <ident string> (e.g., GCC)
1. static const char ident[] = <ident string> (all others)
By default, the ident string used is the standard Open MPI version string. Only
the following libraries will get the embedded version strings (e.g., DSOs will
not):
* libmpi.so
* libmpi_cxx.so
* libmpi_f77.so
* libopen-pal.so
* libopen-rte.so
* Added two new configure options:
* `--with-package-name="STRING"` (defaults to "Open MPI username@hostname
Distribution"). `STRING` is displayed by `ompi_info` next to the "Package"
heading.
* `--with-ident-string="STRING"` (defaults to the standard Open MPI version
string - e.g., X.Y.Zr######). `%VERSION%` will expand to the Open MPI
version string if it is supplied to this configure option.
This commit was SVN r16644.
The commit has been tested for C/R and Cray operations, and on Odin (SLURM, rsh) and RoadRunner (TM). I tried to update all environments, but obviously could not test them. I know that Windows needs some work, and have highlighted what is know to be needed in the odls process component.
This represents a lot of work by Brian, Tim P, Josh, and myself, with much advice from Jeff and others. For posterity, I have appended a copy of the email describing the work that was done:
As we have repeatedly noted, the modex operation in MPI_Init is the single greatest consumer of time during startup. To-date, we have executed that operation as an ORTE stage gate that held the process until a startup message containing all required modex (and OOB contact info - see #3 below) info could be sent to it. Each process would send its data to the HNP's registry, which assembled and sent the message when all processes had reported in.
In addition, ORTE had taken responsibility for monitoring process status as it progressed through a series of "stage gates". The process reported its status at each gate, and ORTE would then send a "release" message once all procs had reported in.
The incoming changes revamp these procedures in three ways:
1. eliminating the ORTE stage gate system and cleanly delineating responsibility between the OMPI and ORTE layers for MPI init/finalize. The modex stage gate (STG1) has been replaced by a collective operation in the modex itself that performs an allgather on the required modex info. The allgather is implemented using the orte_grpcomm framework since the BTL's are not active at that point. At the moment, the grpcomm framework only has a "basic" component analogous to OMPI's "basic" coll framework - I would recommend that the MPI team create additional, more advanced components to improve performance of this step.
The other stage gates have been replaced by orte_grpcomm barrier functions. We tried to use MPI barriers instead (since the BTL's are active at that point), but - as we discussed on the telecon - these are not currently true barriers so the job would hang when we fell through while messages were still in process. Note that the grpcomm barrier doesn't actually resolve that problem, but Brian has pointed out that we are unlikely to ever see it violated. Again, you might want to spend a little time on an advanced barrier algorithm as the one in "basic" is very simplistic.
Summarizing this change: ORTE no longer tracks process state nor has direct responsibility for synchronizing jobs. This is now done via collective operations within the MPI layer, albeit using ORTE collective communication services. I -strongly- urge the MPI team to implement advanced collective algorithms to improve the performance of this critical procedure.
2. reducing the volume of data exchanged during modex. Data in the modex consisted of the process name, the name of the node where that process is located (expressed as a string), plus a string representation of all contact info. The nodename was required in order for the modex to determine if the process was local or not - in addition, some people like to have it to print pretty error messages when a connection failed.
The size of this data has been reduced in three ways:
(a) reducing the size of the process name itself. The process name consisted of two 32-bit fields for the jobid and vpid. This is far larger than any current system, or system likely to exist in the near future, can support. Accordingly, the default size of these fields has been reduced to 16-bits, which means you can have 32k procs in each of 32k jobs. Since the daemons must have a vpid, and we require one daemon/node, this also restricts the default configuration to 32k nodes.
To support any future "mega-clusters", a configuration option --enable-jumbo-apps has been added. This option increases the jobid and vpid field sizes to 32-bits. Someday, if necessary, someone can add yet another option to increase them to 64-bits, I suppose.
(b) replacing the string nodename with an integer nodeid. Since we have one daemon/node, the nodeid corresponds to the local daemon's vpid. This replaces an often lengthy string with only 2 (or at most 4) bytes, a substantial reduction.
(c) when the mca param requesting that nodenames be sent to support pretty error messages, a second mca param is now used to request FQDN - otherwise, the domain name is stripped (by default) from the message to save space. If someone wants to combine those into a single param somehow (perhaps with an argument?), they are welcome to do so - I didn't want to alter what people are already using.
While these may seem like small savings, they actually amount to a significant impact when aggregated across the entire modex operation. Since every proc must receive the modex data regardless of the collective used to send it, just reducing the size of the process name removes nearly 400MBytes of communication from a 32k proc job (admittedly, much of this comm may occur in parallel). So it does add up pretty quickly.
3. routing RML messages to reduce connections. The default messaging system remains point-to-point - i.e., each proc opens a socket to every proc it communicates with and sends its messages directly. A new option uses the orteds as routers - i.e., each proc only opens a single socket to its local orted. All messages are sent from the proc to the orted, which forwards the message to the orted on the node where the intended recipient proc is located - that orted then forwards the message to its local proc (the recipient). This greatly reduces the connection storm we have encountered during startup.
It also has the benefit of removing the sharing of every proc's OOB contact with every other proc. The orted routing tables are populated during launch since every orted gets a map of where every proc is being placed. Each proc, therefore, only needs to know the contact info for its local daemon, which is passed in via the environment when the proc is fork/exec'd by the daemon. This alone removes ~50 bytes/process of communication that was in the current STG1 startup message - so for our 32k proc job, this saves us roughly 32k*50 = 1.6MBytes sent to 32k procs = 51GBytes of messaging.
Note that you can use the new routing method by specifying -mca routed tree - if you so desire. This mode will become the default at some point in the future.
There are a few minor additional changes in the commit that I'll just note in passing:
* propagation of command line mca params to the orteds - fixes ticket #1073. See note there for details.
* requiring of "finalize" prior to "exit" for MPI procs - fixes ticket #1144. See note there for details.
* cleanup of some stale header files
This commit was SVN r16364.
This merge adds Checkpoint/Restart support to Open MPI. The initial
frameworks and components support a LAM/MPI-like implementation.
This commit follows the risk assessment presented to the Open MPI core
development group on Feb. 22, 2007.
This commit closes trac:158
More details to follow.
This commit was SVN r14051.
The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
r13912
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some issues with the C #defines SEEK_{SET, END, POS}. The workaround
involves some hackery that should work in almost every common use case
for the C stdio constants (and all the legal issues of the MPI constants).
The one issue is that the C stdio constants are now const ints instead
of #defines, which means that #ifdef checks will fail for the constants.
Behavior can be disabled at either configure time or build time.
Refs trac:387
This commit was SVN r12121.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
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