There was an obvious bug in the alps/ras component compare_nodes method
which resulted in the function always evaluating the nodes
as being equivalent.
It turns out that the support for Open MPI apps on
Cray was hanging on a thin thread of support when
using the mpirun job launcher. It just happened that
with a certain set of configuration options things would
work. This is bound to backfire at some point.
To fix this weakness, as well as to allow for mpirun launched
jobs to benefit from many of the advanced placement features
provided by the Cray Linux Environment (as opposed to the hwloc
only default env of orte), a new odls alps component is introduced.
We recognize that this means other users of OPAL will need to "wrap" the opal_process_name_t if they desire to abstract it in some fashion. This is regrettable, and we are looking at possible alternatives that might mitigate that requirement. Meantime, however, we have to put the needs of the OMPI community first, and are taking this step to restore hetero and SPARC support.
These two macros set the MCA prefix and MCA cmd line id,
respectively. Specifically, MCA parameters will be named
PREFIX<foo> in the environment, and the cmd line will use
-ID foo bar.
These macros must be called during configure.ac and a value
supplied. In the case of Open MPI, the values given are
PREFIX=OMPI_MCA_ and ID=mca.
Other projects (such as ORCM) will call these macros with
their own unique values. For example, ORCM uses PREFIX=ORCM_MCA_
and ID=omca
This scheme is necessary to allow running Open MPI applications under
systems that use their own versions of ORTE and OPAL. For example,
when running OMPI applications under ORCM, we need the MCA params passed
to the ORCM daemons to be separated from those recognized by the OMPI application.
The alps ess component is obsolete.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.
