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.
#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.
Adds several new mpirun options:
* -bysocket - assign ranks on a node by socket. Effectively load balances the procs assigned to a node across the available sockets. Note that ranks can still be bound to a specific core within the socket, or to the entire socket - the mapping is independent of the binding.
* -bind-to-socket - bind each rank to all the cores on the socket to which they are assigned.
* -bind-to-core - currently the default behavior (maintained from prior default)
* -npersocket N - launch N procs for every socket on a node. Note that this implies we know how many sockets are on a node. Mpirun will determine its local values. These can be overridden by provided values, either via MCA param or in a hostfile
Similar features/options are provided at the board level for multi-board nodes.
Documentation to follow...
This commit was SVN r21791.
Relative node syntax remains supported. Also, if you specify empty nodes, but have a specific empty node called out later, we will not include that node in the empties we add. I'll provide examples in the manpage.
This commit was SVN r19402.
