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Copyright (c) 2004-2007 The Trustees of Indiana University and Indiana
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University Research and Technology
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Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2004-2007 The University of Tennessee and The University
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of Tennessee Research Foundation. All rights
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reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2004-2008 High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart,
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University of Stuttgart. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2004-2007 The Regents of the University of California.
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Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2007 Myricom, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2008 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2010 Oak Ridge National Labs. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2011 University of Houston. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2013 Intel, Inc. All rights reserved
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$HEADER$
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extra information as possible. This web page details all the
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information that we request in order to provide assistance:
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===========================================================================
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Much, much more information is also available in the Open MPI FAQ:
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http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/
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===========================================================================
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The following abbreviated list of release notes applies to this code
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base as of this writing (22 February 2012):
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General notes
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-------------
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- Open MPI now includes two public software layers: MPI and OpenSHMEM.
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Throughout this document, references to Open MPI implicitly include
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both of these layers. When distinction between these two layers is
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necessary, we will reference them as the "MPI" and "OSHMEM" layers
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respectively.
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OpenSHMEM is a collaborative effort between academia, industry,
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and the U.S. Government to create a specification for a
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standardized API for parallel programming in the Partitioned
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Global Address Space (PGAS.) For more information about the OpenSHMEM
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project, including access to the current OpenSHMEM specification,
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please visit:
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http://openshmem.org/
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The OpenSHMEM implementation contained herein is provided by
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Mellanox Technologies Inc. made possible by the support and patient
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guidance of the Open MPI community. This implementation attempts
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to be portable, to allow it to be deployed in multiple environments,
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and to be a starting point for optimizations targeted to particular
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hardware platforms. However, until other network vendors and/or
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institutions contribute platform specific optimizations, this
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implementation will most likely provide optimal performance on Mellanox
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hardware and software stacks.
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- Open MPI includes support for a wide variety of supplemental
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hardware and software package. When configuring Open MPI, you may
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need to supply additional flags to the "configure" script in order
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to tell Open MPI where the header files, libraries, and any other
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required files are located. As such, running "configure" by itself
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may not include support for all the devices (etc.) that you expect,
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especially if their support headers / libraries are installed in
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non-standard locations. Network interconnects are an easy example
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to discuss -- Myrinet and OpenFabrics networks, for example, both
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have supplemental headers and libraries that must be found before
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Open MPI can build support for them. You must specify where these
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files are with the appropriate options to configure. See the
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listing of configure command-line switches, below, for more details.
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- The majority of Open MPI's documentation is here in this file, the
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included man pages, and on the web site FAQ
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(http://www.open-mpi.org/). This will eventually be supplemented
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with cohesive installation and user documentation files.
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- Note that Open MPI documentation uses the word "component"
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frequently; the word "plugin" is probably more familiar to most
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users. As such, end users can probably completely substitute the
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word "plugin" wherever you see "component" in our documentation.
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For what it's worth, we use the word "component" for historical
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reasons, mainly because it is part of our acronyms and internal API
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function calls.
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- The run-time systems that are currently supported are:
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- rsh / ssh
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- LoadLeveler
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- PBS Pro, Torque
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- Platform LSF (v7.0.2 and later)
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- SLURM
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- Cray XT-3, XT-4, and XT-5
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- Oracle Grid Engine (OGE) 6.1, 6.2 and open source Grid Engine
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- Systems that have been tested are:
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- Linux (various flavors/distros), 32 bit, with gcc
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- Linux (various flavors/distros), 64 bit (x86), with gcc, Absoft,
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Intel, and Portland (*)
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- OS X (10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9), 32 and 64 bit (x86_64), with gcc and
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Absoft compilers (*)
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(*) Be sure to read the Compiler Notes, below.
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- Other systems have been lightly (but not fully tested):
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- Cygwin 32 & 64 bit with gcc
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- ARMv4, ARMv5, ARMv6, ARMv7 (when using non-inline assembly; only
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ARMv7 is fully supported when -DOMPI_DISABLE_INLINE_ASM is used).
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- Other 64 bit platforms (e.g., Linux on PPC64)
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- Oracle Solaris 10 and 11, 32 and 64 bit (SPARC, i386, x86_64),
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with Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 and 12.3
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Compiler Notes
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--------------
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- Mixing compilers from different vendors when building Open MPI
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(e.g., using the C/C++ compiler from one vendor and the Fortran
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compiler from a different vendor) has been successfully employed by
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some Open MPI users (discussed on the Open MPI user's mailing list),
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but such configurations are not tested and not documented. For
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example, such configurations may require additional compiler /
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linker flags to make Open MPI build properly.
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- In general, the latest versions of compilers of a given vendor's
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series have the least bugs. We have seen cases where Vendor XYZ's
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compiler version A.B fails to compile Open MPI, but version A.C
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(where C>B) works just fine. If you run into a compile failure, you
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might want to double check that you have the latest bug fixes and
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patches for your compiler.
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- On NetBSD-6 (at least AMD64 and i386), and possibly on OpenBSD,
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libtool misidentifies properties of f95/g95, leading to obscure
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compile-time failures if used to build Open MPI. You can work
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around this issue by ensuring that libtool will not use f95/g95
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(e.g., by specifying FC=<some_other_compiler>, or otherwise ensuring
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a different Fortran compiler will be found earlier in the path than
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f95/g95), or by disabling the Fortran MPI bindings with
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--disable-mpi-fortran.
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- Absoft 11.5.2 plus a service pack from September 2012 (which Absoft
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says is available upon request), or a version later than 11.5.2
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(e.g., 11.5.3), is required to compile the new Fortran mpi_f08
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module.
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- Open MPI does not support the Sparc v8 CPU target. However,
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as of Solaris Studio 12.1, and later compilers, one should not
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specify -xarch=v8plus or -xarch=v9. The use of the options
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-m32 and -m64 for producing 32 and 64 bit targets, respectively,
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are now preferred by the Solaris Studio compilers.
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- It has been noticed that if one uses CXX=sunCC, in which sunCC
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is a link in the Solaris Studio compiler release, that the OMPI
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build system has issue with sunCC and does not build libmpi_cxx.so.
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Therefore the make install fails. So we suggest that one should
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use CXX=CC, which works, instead of CXX=sunCC.
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- If one tries to build OMPI on Ubuntu with Solaris Studio using the C++
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compiler and the -m32 option, you might see a warning:
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CC: Warning: failed to detect system linker version, falling back to
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custom linker usage
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And the build will fail. One can overcome this error by either
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setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the location of the 32 bit libraries (most
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likely /lib32), or giving LDFLAGS="-L/lib32 -R/lib32" to the configure
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command. Officially, Solaris Studio is not supported on Ubuntu Linux
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distributions, so additional problems might be incurred.
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- The Solaris Studio 12.2 compilers may have a problem compiling
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VampirTrace on some Linux platforms. You can either upgrade to a
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later version of the Solaris Studio compilers (e.g., 12.3 does not
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have this problem), or disable building VampirTrace.
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- Open MPI does not support the gccfss compiler (GCC For SPARC
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Systems; a now-defunct compiler project from Sun).
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- At least some versions of the Intel 8.1 compiler seg fault while
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compiling certain Open MPI source code files. As such, it is not
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supported.
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- The Intel 9.0 v20051201 compiler on IA64 platforms seems to have a
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problem with optimizing the ptmalloc2 memory manager component (the
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generated code will segv). As such, the ptmalloc2 component will
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automatically disable itself if it detects that it is on this
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platform/compiler combination. The only effect that this should
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have is that the MCA parameter mpi_leave_pinned will be inoperative.
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- It has been reported that the Intel 9.1 and 10.0 compilers fail to
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compile Open MPI on IA64 platforms. As of 12 Sep 2012, there is
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very little (if any) testing performed on IA64 platforms (with any
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compiler). Support is "best effort" for these platforms, but it is
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doubtful that any effort will be expended to fix the Intel 9.1 /
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10.0 compiler issuers on this platform.
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- Early versions of the Intel 12.1 Linux compiler suite on x86_64 seem
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to have a bug that prevents Open MPI from working. Symptoms
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including immediate segv of the wrapper compilers (e.g., mpicc) and
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MPI applications. As of 1 Feb 2012, if you upgrade to the latest
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version of the Intel 12.1 Linux compiler suite, the problem will go
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away.
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- Early versions of the Portland Group 6.0 compiler have problems
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creating the C++ MPI bindings as a shared library (e.g., v6.0-1).
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Tests with later versions show that this has been fixed (e.g.,
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v6.0-5).
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- The Portland Group compilers prior to version 7.0 require the
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"-Msignextend" compiler flag to extend the sign bit when converting
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from a shorter to longer integer. This is is different than other
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compilers (such as GNU). When compiling Open MPI with the Portland
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compiler suite, the following flags should be passed to Open MPI's
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configure script:
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shell$ ./configure CFLAGS=-Msignextend CXXFLAGS=-Msignextend \
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--with-wrapper-cflags=-Msignextend \
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--with-wrapper-cxxflags=-Msignextend ...
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This will both compile Open MPI with the proper compile flags and
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also automatically add "-Msignextend" when the C and C++ MPI wrapper
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compilers are used to compile user MPI applications.
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- Using the MPI C++ bindings with older versions of the Pathscale
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compiler on some platforms is an old issue that seems to be a
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problem when Pathscale uses a back-end GCC 3.x compiler. Here's a
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proposed solution from the Pathscale support team (from July 2010):
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The proposed work-around is to install gcc-4.x on the system and
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use the pathCC -gnu4 option. Newer versions of the compiler (4.x
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and beyond) should have this fixed, but we'll have to test to
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confirm it's actually fixed and working correctly.
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We don't anticipate that this will be much of a problem for Open MPI
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users these days (our informal testing shows that not many users are
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still using GCC 3.x). Contact Pathscale support if you continue to
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have problems with Open MPI's C++ bindings.
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- Using the Absoft compiler to build the MPI Fortran bindings on Suse
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9.3 is known to fail due to a Libtool compatibility issue.
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- MPI Fortran API support has been completely overhauled since the
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Open MPI v1.5/v1.6 series.
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********************************************************************
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*** There is now only a single Fortran MPI wrapper compiler and
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*** a single Fortran OSHMEM wrapper compiler:
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*** mpifort, and oshfort. mpif77 and mpif90 still exist, but they
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*** are symbolic links to mpifort.
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********************************************************************
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*** Similarly, Open MPI's configure script only recognizes the FC
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*** and FCFLAGS environment variables (to specify the Fortran
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*** compiler and compiler flags, respectively). The F77 and FFLAGS
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*** environment variables are IGNORED.
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********************************************************************
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********************************************************************
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You can use either ompi_info or oshmem_info to see with which Fortran
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compiler Open MPI was configured and compiled.
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There are up to three sets of Fortran MPI bindings that may be
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provided depending on your Fortran compiler):
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- mpif.h: This is the first MPI Fortran interface that was defined
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in MPI-1. It is a file that is included in Fortran source code.
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Open MPI's mpif.h does not declare any MPI subroutines; they are
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all implicit.
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- mpi module: The mpi module file was added in MPI-2. It provides
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strong compile-time parameter type checking for MPI subroutines.
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- mpi_f08 module: The mpi_f08 module was added in MPI-3. It
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provides many advantages over the mpif.h file and mpi module. For
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example, MPI handles have distinct types (vs. all being integers).
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See the MPI-3 document for more details.
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*** The mpi_f08 module is STRONGLY is recommended for all new MPI
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Fortran subroutines and applications. Note that the mpi_f08
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module can be used in conjunction with the other two Fortran
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MPI bindings in the same application (only one binding can be
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used per subroutine/function, however). Full interoperability
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between mpif.h/mpi module and mpi_f08 module MPI handle types
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is provided, allowing mpi_f08 to be used in new subroutines in
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legacy MPI applications.
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Per the OSHMEM specification, there is only one Fortran OSHMEM binding
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provided:
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- shmem.fh: All Fortran OpenSHMEM programs **should** include 'shmem.fh',
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and Fortran OSHMEM programs that use constants defined by OpenSHMEM
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**MUST** include 'shmem.fh'.
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The following notes apply to the above-listed Fortran bindings:
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- The mpi_f08 module is new and has been tested with the Intel
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Fortran compiler. Other modern Fortran compilers may also work
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(but are, as yet, currently untested). It is expected that this
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support will mature over time.
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As of v4.9, the GNU Fortran compiler (gfortran) is *not* supported
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with the mpi_f08 module (gfortran lacks some necessary modern
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Fortran features, sorry).
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- All Fortran compilers support the mpif.h/shmem.fh-based bindings.
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- If Open MPI is built with a non-gfortran compiler or with gfortran
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>=v4.9, all MPI subroutines will be prototyped in the mpi module,
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meaning that all calls to MPI subroutines will have their parameter
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types checked at compile time.
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- If Open MPI is built with gfortran <v4.9, it will compile a
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limited "mpi" module -- not all MPI subroutines will be prototyped
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due to both poor design of the mpi module in the MPI-2
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specification and a lack of features in older versions of
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gfortran.
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Specifically, all MPI subroutines with no "choice" buffers are
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prototyped and will receive strong parameter type checking at
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run-time (e.g., MPI_INIT, MPI_COMM_RANK, etc.).
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MPI subroutines with one choice buffer (e.g., MPI_SEND) are
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prototyped for all intrinsic Fortran types for scalars and ranks 1
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through 4 (the --with-gfortran-max-array-dim configure switch can
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be used to increase the max array rank supported to up to 7).
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MPI subroutines with two choice buffers (e.g., MPI_GATHER) are
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*not* prototyped. These subroutines can still be called in MPI
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applications; they just will not receive strong parameter type
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checking.
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General Run-Time Support Notes
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- The Open MPI installation must be in your PATH on all nodes (and
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potentially LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH), if libmpi/libshmem
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is a shared library), unless using the --prefix or
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--enable-mpirun-prefix-by-default functionality (see below).
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- Open MPI's run-time behavior can be customized via MCA ("MPI
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Component Architecture") parameters (see below for more information
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on how to get/set MCA parameter values). Some MCA parameters can be
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set in a way that renders Open MPI inoperable (see notes about MCA
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parameters later in this file). In particular, some parameters have
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required options that must be included.
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- If specified, the "btl" parameter must include the "self"
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component, or Open MPI will not be able to deliver messages to the
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same rank as the sender. For example: "mpirun --mca btl tcp,self
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..."
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- If specified, the "btl_tcp_if_exclude" paramater must include the
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loopback device ("lo" on many Linux platforms), or Open MPI will
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not be able to route MPI messages using the TCP BTL. For example:
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"mpirun --mca btl_tcp_if_exclude lo,eth1 ..."
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- Running on nodes with different endian and/or different datatype
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sizes within a single parallel job is supported in this release.
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However, Open MPI does not resize data when datatypes differ in size
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(for example, sending a 4 byte MPI_DOUBLE and receiving an 8 byte
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MPI_DOUBLE will fail).
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MPI Functionality and Features
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------------------------------
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- All MPI-2.2 and most MPI-3 functionality is supported.
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- When using MPI deprecated functions, some compilers will emit
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warnings. For example:
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shell$ cat deprecated_example.c
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#include <mpi.h>
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void foo(void) {
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MPI_Datatype type;
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MPI_Type_struct(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, &type);
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}
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shell$ mpicc -c deprecated_example.c
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deprecated_example.c: In function 'foo':
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deprecated_example.c:4: warning: 'MPI_Type_struct' is deprecated (declared at /opt/openmpi/include/mpi.h:1522)
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shell$
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- MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE support is included, but is only lightly tested.
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It likely does not work for thread-intensive applications. Note
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that *only* the MPI point-to-point communication functions for the
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BTL's listed here are considered thread safe. Other support
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functions (e.g., MPI attributes) have not been certified as safe
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when simultaneously used by multiple threads.
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- tcp
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- sm
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- self
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Note that Open MPI's thread support is in a fairly early stage; the
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above devices may *work*, but the latency is likely to be fairly
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high. Specifically, efforts so far have concentrated on
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*correctness*, not *performance* (yet).
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- MPI_REAL16 and MPI_COMPLEX32 are only supported on platforms where a
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portable C datatype can be found that matches the Fortran type
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REAL*16, both in size and bit representation.
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- The "libompitrace" library is bundled in Open MPI and is installed
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by default (it can be disabled via the --disable-libompitrace
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flag). This library provides a simplistic tracing of select MPI
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function calls via the MPI profiling interface. Linking it in to
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your appliation via (e.g., via -lompitrace) will automatically
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output to stderr when some MPI functions are invoked:
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shell$ mpicc hello_world.c -o hello_world -lompitrace
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shell$ mpirun -np 1 hello_world.c
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MPI_INIT: argc 1
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Hello, world, I am 0 of 1
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MPI_BARRIER[0]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD
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MPI_FINALIZE[0]
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shell$
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Keep in mind that the output from the trace library is going to
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stderr, so it may output in a slightly different order than the
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stdout from your application.
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This library is being offered as a "proof of concept" / convenience
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from Open MPI. If there is interest, it is trivially easy to extend
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it to printf for other MPI functions. Patches and/or suggestions
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would be greatfully appreciated on the Open MPI developer's list.
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- ROMIO is not supported on OpenBSD. You will need to specify the
|
|
--disable-io-romio flag to configure when building on OpenBSD.
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OSHMEM Functionality and Features
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|
------------------------------
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- All OpenSHMEM-1.0 functionality is supported.
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MPI Collectives
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-----------
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- The "hierarch" coll component (i.e., an implementation of MPI
|
|
collective operations) attempts to discover network layers of
|
|
latency in order to segregate individual "local" and "global"
|
|
operations as part of the overall collective operation. In this
|
|
way, network traffic can be reduced -- or possibly even minimized
|
|
(similar to MagPIe). The current "hierarch" component only
|
|
separates MPI processes into on- and off-node groups.
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|
|
|
Hierarch has had sufficient correctness testing, but has not
|
|
received much performance tuning. As such, hierarch is not
|
|
activated by default -- it must be enabled manually by setting its
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priority level to 100:
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mpirun --mca coll_hierarch_priority 100 ...
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We would appreciate feedback from the user community about how well
|
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hierarch works for your applications.
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- The "fca" coll component: the Mellanox Fabric Collective Accelerator
|
|
(FCA) is a solution for offloading collective operations from the
|
|
MPI process onto Mellanox QDR InfiniBand switch CPUs and HCAs.
|
|
|
|
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- The "ML" coll component is an implementation of MPI collective
|
|
operations that takes advantage of communication hierarchies
|
|
in modern systems. A ML collective operation is implemented by
|
|
combining multiple independently progressing collective primitives
|
|
implemented over different communication hierarchies, hence a ML
|
|
collective operation is also reffered to as a hierarchical collective
|
|
operation. The number of collective primitives that are included in a
|
|
ML collective operation is a function of subgroups(hierarchies).
|
|
Typically, MPI processes in a single communication hierarchy such as
|
|
CPU socket, node, or subnet are grouped together into a single subgroup
|
|
(hierarchy). The number of subgroups are configurable at runtime,
|
|
and each different collective operation could be configured to have
|
|
a different of number of subgroups.
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|
|
|
The component frameworks and components used by\required for a
|
|
"ML" collective operation.
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Frameworks:
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* "sbgp" - Provides functionality for grouping processes into subgroups
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* "bcol" - Provides collective primitives optimized for a particular
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communication hierarchy
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Components:
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* sbgp components - Provides grouping functionality over a CPU socket
|
|
("basesocket"), shared memory ("basesmuma"),
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|
Mellanox's ConnectX HCA ("ibnet"), and other
|
|
interconnects supported by PML ("p2p")
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|
|
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* BCOL components - Provides optimized collective primitives for
|
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shared memory ("basesmuma"), Mellanox's ConnectX
|
|
HCA ("iboffload"), and other interconnects supported
|
|
by PML ("ptpcoll")
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|
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* "ofacm" - Provides connection manager functionality for
|
|
InfiniBand communications
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|
* "verbs" - Provides commonly used verbs utilities
|
|
* "netpatterns" - Provides an implementation of algorithm patterns
|
|
* "commpatterns" - Provides collectives for bootstrap
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|
OSHMEM Collectives
|
|
-----------
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|
|
|
- The "fca" scoll component: the Mellanox Fabric Collective Accelerator
|
|
(FCA) is a solution for offloading collective operations from the
|
|
MPI process onto Mellanox QDR InfiniBand switch CPUs and HCAs.
|
|
|
|
- The "basic" scoll component: Reference implementation of all OSHMEM
|
|
collective operations.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Network Support
|
|
---------------
|
|
|
|
- There are two MPI network models available: "ob1", and "cm". "ob1"
|
|
uses BTL ("Byte Transfer Layer") components for each supported network.
|
|
"cm" uses MTL ("Matching Tranport Layer") components for each supported
|
|
network.
|
|
|
|
- "ob1" supports a variety of networks that can be used in
|
|
combination with each other (per OS constraints; e.g., there are
|
|
reports that the GM and OpenFabrics kernel drivers do not operate
|
|
well together):
|
|
|
|
- OpenFabrics: InfiniBand, iWARP, and RoCE
|
|
- Loopback (send-to-self)
|
|
- Myrinet MX and Open-MX
|
|
- Portals4
|
|
- Shared memory
|
|
- TCP
|
|
- Intel Phi SCIF
|
|
- SMCUDA
|
|
- SCTP
|
|
- Cisco usNIC
|
|
- uGNI (Cray Gemini, Ares)
|
|
- vader (XPMEM)
|
|
|
|
- "cm" supports a smaller number of networks (and they cannot be
|
|
used together), but may provide better overall MPI performance:
|
|
|
|
- Myrinet MX and Open-MX
|
|
- InfiniPath PSM
|
|
- Mellanox MXM
|
|
- Portals4
|
|
|
|
Open MPI will, by default, choose to use "cm" when the InfiniPath
|
|
PSM or the Mellanox MXM MTL can be used. Otherwise, "ob1" will be
|
|
used and the corresponding BTLs will be selected. Users can force
|
|
the use of ob1 or cm if desired by setting the "pml" MCA parameter
|
|
at run-time:
|
|
|
|
shell$ mpirun --mca pml ob1 ...
|
|
or
|
|
shell$ mpirun --mca pml cm ...
|
|
|
|
- Similarly, there are two OSHMEM network models available: "yoda", and "ikrit". "yoda"
|
|
also uses the BTL components for many supported network. "ikrit" interfaces directly with
|
|
Mellanox MXM.
|
|
|
|
- "yoda" supports a variety of networks that can be used:
|
|
|
|
- OpenFabrics: InfiniBand, iWARP, and RoCE
|
|
- Loopback (send-to-self)
|
|
- Shared memory
|
|
- TCP
|
|
|
|
- "ikrit" only supports Mellanox MXM.
|
|
|
|
- MXM is the Mellanox Messaging Accelerator library utilizing a full range of IB
|
|
transports to provide the following messaging services to the upper
|
|
level MPI/OSHMEM libraries:
|
|
|
|
- Usage of all available IB transports
|
|
- Native RDMA support
|
|
- Progress thread
|
|
- Shared memory communication
|
|
- Hardware-assisted reliability
|
|
|
|
- The usnic BTL is support for Cisco's usNIC device ("userspace NIC")
|
|
on Cisco UCS servers with the Virtualized Interface Card (VIC).
|
|
Although the usNIC is accessed via the OpenFabrics / Verbs API
|
|
stack, this BTL is specific to the Cisco usNIC device.
|
|
|
|
- uGNI is a Cray library for communicating over the Gemini and Ares
|
|
interconnects.
|
|
|
|
- The OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software package v1.0
|
|
will not work properly with Open MPI v1.2 (and later) due to how its
|
|
Mellanox InfiniBand plugin driver is created. The problem is fixed
|
|
OFED v1.1 (and later).
|
|
|
|
- Better memory management support is available for OFED-based
|
|
transports using the "ummunotify" Linux kernel module. OFED memory
|
|
managers are necessary for better bandwidth when re-using the same
|
|
buffers for large messages (e.g., benchmarks and some applications).
|
|
|
|
Unfortunately, the ummunotify module was not accepted by the Linux
|
|
kernel community (and is still not distributed by OFED). But it
|
|
still remains the best memory management solution for MPI
|
|
applications that used the OFED network transports. If Open MPI is
|
|
able to find the <linux/ummunotify.h> header file, it will build
|
|
support for ummunotify and include it by default. If MPI processes
|
|
then find the ummunotify kernel module loaded and active, then their
|
|
memory managers (which have been shown to be problematic in some
|
|
cases) will be disabled and ummunotify will be used. Otherwise, the
|
|
same memory managers from prior versions of Open MPI will be used.
|
|
The ummunotify Linux kernel module can be downloaded from:
|
|
|
|
http://lwn.net/Articles/343351/
|
|
|
|
- The use of fork() with OpenFabrics-based networks (i.e., the openib
|
|
BTL) is only partially supported, and only on Linux kernels >=
|
|
v2.6.15 with libibverbs v1.1 or later (first released as part of
|
|
OFED v1.2), per restrictions imposed by the OFED network stack.
|
|
|
|
- Myrinet MX (and Open-MX) support is shared between the 2 internal
|
|
devices, the MTL and the BTL. The design of the BTL interface in
|
|
Open MPI assumes that only naive one-sided communication
|
|
capabilities are provided by the low level communication layers.
|
|
However, modern communication layers such as Myrinet MX, InfiniPath
|
|
PSM, or Portals4, natively implement highly-optimized two-sided
|
|
communication semantics. To leverage these capabilities, Open MPI
|
|
provides the "cm" PML and corresponding MTL components to transfer
|
|
messages rather than bytes. The MTL interface implements a shorter
|
|
code path and lets the low-level network library decide which
|
|
protocol to use (depending on issues such as message length,
|
|
internal resources and other parameters specific to the underlying
|
|
interconnect). However, Open MPI cannot currently use multiple MTL
|
|
modules at once. In the case of the MX MTL, process loopback and
|
|
on-node shared memory communications are provided by the MX library.
|
|
Moreover, the current MX MTL does not support message pipelining
|
|
resulting in lower performances in case of non-contiguous
|
|
data-types.
|
|
|
|
The "ob1" PML and BTL components use Open MPI's internal
|
|
on-node shared memory and process loopback devices for high
|
|
performance. The BTL interface allows multiple devices to be used
|
|
simultaneously. For the MX BTL it is recommended that the first
|
|
segment (which is as a threshold between the eager and the
|
|
rendezvous protocol) should always be at most 4KB, but there is no
|
|
further restriction on the size of subsequent fragments.
|
|
|
|
The MX MTL is recommended in the common case for best performance on
|
|
10G hardware when most of the data transfers cover contiguous memory
|
|
layouts. The MX BTL is recommended in all other cases, such as when
|
|
using multiple interconnects at the same time (including TCP), or
|
|
transferring non contiguous data-types.
|
|
|
|
- Linux "knem" support is used when the "sm" (shared memory) BTL is
|
|
compiled with knem support (see the --with-knem configure option)
|
|
and the knem Linux module is loaded in the running kernel. If the
|
|
knem Linux kernel module is not loaded, the knem support is (by
|
|
default) silently deactivated during Open MPI jobs.
|
|
|
|
See http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/knem/ for details on Knem.
|
|
|
|
- XPMEM is used by the vader shared-memory BTL when the XPMEM
|
|
libraries are installed. XPMEM allows Open MPI to map pages from
|
|
other processes into the current process' memory space. This
|
|
allows single-copy semantics for shared memory without the need
|
|
for a system call.
|
|
|
|
Open MPI Extensions
|
|
-------------------
|
|
|
|
- An MPI "extensions" framework has been added (but is not enabled by
|
|
default). See the "Open MPI API Extensions" section below for more
|
|
information on compiling and using MPI extensions.
|
|
|
|
- The following extensions are included in this version of Open MPI:
|
|
|
|
- affinity: Provides the OMPI_Affinity_str() routine on retrieving
|
|
a string that contains what resources a process is bound to. See
|
|
its man page for more details.
|
|
- cr: Provides routines to access to checkpoint restart routines.
|
|
See ompi/mpiext/cr/mpiext_cr_c.h for a listing of availble
|
|
functions.
|
|
- example: A non-functional extension; its only purpose is to
|
|
provide an example for how to create other extensions.
|
|
|
|
===========================================================================
|
|
|
|
Building Open MPI
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
Building Open MPI implies building both the MPI and OpenSHMEM libraries, as
|
|
such, configure flags that are neither MPI or OSHMEM specific in their names
|
|
should be regarded as applicable to both libraries. Some pairs of MPI and
|
|
OSHMEM specific switches may be mutually exclusive e.g. passing both
|
|
|
|
--disable-mpi-fortran --enable-oshmem-fortran
|
|
|
|
will cause configure to abort since the OSHMEM Fortran bindings are dependent
|
|
upon the MPI bindings being built.
|
|
|
|
Open MPI uses a traditional configure script paired with "make" to
|
|
build. Typical installs can be of the pattern:
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
shell$ ./configure [...options...]
|
|
shell$ make all install
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
There are many available configure options (see "./configure --help"
|
|
for a full list); a summary of the more commonly used ones follows:
|
|
|
|
INSTALLATION OPTIONS
|
|
|
|
--prefix=<directory>
|
|
Install Open MPI into the base directory named <directory>. Hence,
|
|
Open MPI will place its executables in <directory>/bin, its header
|
|
files in <directory>/include, its libraries in <directory>/lib, etc.
|
|
|
|
--disable-shared
|
|
By default, libmpi and libshmem are built as a shared library, and
|
|
all components are built as dynamic shared objects (DSOs). This
|
|
switch disables this default; it is really only useful when used with
|
|
--enable-static. Specifically, this option does *not* imply
|
|
--enable-static; enabling static libraries and disabling shared
|
|
libraries are two independent options.
|
|
|
|
--enable-static
|
|
Build libmpi and libshmem as static libraries, and statically link in all
|
|
components. Note that this option does *not* imply
|
|
--disable-shared; enabling static libraries and disabling shared
|
|
libraries are two independent options.
|
|
|
|
Be sure to read the description of --without-memory-manager, below;
|
|
it may have some effect on --enable-static.
|
|
|
|
--disable-wrapper-rpath
|
|
|
|
By default, the wrapper compilers (e.g., mpicc) will enable "rpath"
|
|
support in generated executables on systems that support it. That
|
|
is, they will include a file reference to the location of Open MPI's
|
|
libraries in the application executable itself. This means that
|
|
the user does not have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find Open MPI's
|
|
libraries (e.g., if they are installed in a location that the
|
|
run-time linker does not search by default).
|
|
|
|
On systems that utilize the GNU ld linker, recent enough versions
|
|
will actually utilize "runpath" functionality, not "rpath". There
|
|
is an important difference between the two:
|
|
|
|
"rpath": the location of the Open MPI libraries is hard-coded into
|
|
the MPI/OSHMEM application and cannot be overridden at run-time.
|
|
"runpath": the location of the Open MPI libraries is hard-coded into
|
|
the MPI/OSHMEM application, but can be overridden at run-time by
|
|
setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
|
|
|
|
For example, consider that you install Open MPI vA.B.0 and
|
|
compile/link your MPI/OSHMEM application against it. Later, you install
|
|
Open MPI vA.B.1 to a different installation prefix (e.g.,
|
|
/opt/openmpi/A.B.1 vs. /opt/openmpi/A.B.0), and you leave the old
|
|
installation intact.
|
|
|
|
In the rpath case, your MPI application will always use the
|
|
libraries from your A.B.0 installation. In the runpath case, you
|
|
can set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point to the
|
|
A.B.1 installation, and then your MPI application will use those
|
|
libraries.
|
|
|
|
Note that in both cases, however, if you remove the original A.B.0
|
|
installation and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the A.B.1
|
|
installation, your application will use the A.B.1 libraries.
|
|
|
|
This rpath/runpath behavior can be disabled via
|
|
--disable-wrapper-rpath.
|
|
|
|
--enable-dlopen
|
|
Build all of Open MPI's components as standalone Dynamic Shared
|
|
Objects (DSO's) that are loaded at run-time. The opposite of this
|
|
option, --disable-dlopen, causes two things:
|
|
|
|
1. All of Open MPI's components will be built as part of Open MPI's
|
|
normal libraries (e.g., libmpi).
|
|
2. Open MPI will not attempt to open any DSO's at run-time.
|
|
|
|
Note that this option does *not* imply that OMPI's libraries will be
|
|
built as static objects (e.g., libmpi.a). It only specifies the
|
|
location of OMPI's components: standalone DSOs or folded into the
|
|
Open MPI libraries. You can control whether Open MPI's libraries
|
|
are build as static or dynamic via --enable|disable-static and
|
|
--enable|disable-shared.
|
|
|
|
--with-platform=FILE
|
|
Load configure options for the build from FILE. Options on the
|
|
command line that are not in FILE are also used. Options on the
|
|
command line and in FILE are replaced by what is in FILE.
|
|
|
|
NETWORKING SUPPORT / OPTIONS
|
|
|
|
--with-fca=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the Mellanox FCA library and
|
|
header files are located.
|
|
|
|
FCA is the support library for Mellanox QDR switches and HCAs.
|
|
|
|
--with-knem=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the knem libraries and header files are
|
|
located. This option is generally only necessary if the knem headers
|
|
and libraries are not in default compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
knem is a Linux kernel module that allows direct process-to-process
|
|
memory copies (optionally using hardware offload), potentially
|
|
increasing bandwidth for large messages sent between messages on the
|
|
same server. See http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/knem/ for
|
|
details.
|
|
|
|
--with-mx=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the MX libraries and header files are
|
|
located. This option is generally only necessary if the MX headers
|
|
and libraries are not in default compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
MX is the support library for Myrinet-based networks. An open
|
|
source software package named Open-MX provides the same
|
|
functionality on Ethernet-based clusters (Open-MX can provide
|
|
MPI performance improvements compared to TCP messaging).
|
|
|
|
--with-mx-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the MX libraries. By default, Open MPI will
|
|
look in <mx directory>/lib and <mx directory>/lib64, which covers
|
|
most cases. This option is only needed for special configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-mxm=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the Mellanox MXM library and header
|
|
files are located. This option is generally only necessary if the
|
|
MXM headers and libraries are not in default compiler/linker search
|
|
paths.
|
|
|
|
MXM is the support library for Mellanox Network adapters.
|
|
|
|
--with-mxm-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the MXM libraries. By default, Open MPI will
|
|
look in <mxm directory>/lib and <mxm directory>/lib64, which covers
|
|
most cases. This option is only needed for special configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-verbs=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the verbs (also know as OpenFabrics, and
|
|
previously known as OpenIB) libraries and header files are located.
|
|
This option is generally only necessary if the verbs headers and
|
|
libraries are not in default compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
"OpenFabrics" refers to operating system bypass networks, such as
|
|
InfiniBand, usNIC, iWARP, and RoCE (aka "IBoIP").
|
|
|
|
--with-verbs-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the verbs libraries. By default, Open
|
|
MPI will look in <openib directory>/lib and <openib
|
|
directory>/lib64, which covers most cases. This option is only
|
|
needed for special configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-openib=<directory>
|
|
DEPRECATED synonym for --with-verbs.
|
|
|
|
--with-openib-libdir=<directory>
|
|
DEPRECATED synonym for --with-verbs-libdir.
|
|
|
|
--with-portals4=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the Portals4 libraries and header files
|
|
are located. This option is generally only necessary if the Portals4
|
|
headers and libraries are not in default compiler/linker search
|
|
paths.
|
|
|
|
Portals4 is the support library for Cray interconnects, but is also
|
|
available on other platforms (e.g., there is a Portals4 library
|
|
implemented over regular TCP).
|
|
|
|
--with-portals4-libdir=<libdir>
|
|
Location of libraries to link with for Portals4 support.
|
|
|
|
--with-portals4-max-md-size=SIZE
|
|
--with-portals4-max-va-size=SIZE
|
|
Set configuration values for Portals 4
|
|
|
|
--with-psm=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the QLogic InfiniPath PSM library and
|
|
header files are located. This option is generally only necessary
|
|
if the InfiniPath headers and libraries are not in default
|
|
compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
PSM is the support library for QLogic InfiniPath network adapters.
|
|
|
|
--with-psm-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the PSM libraries. By default, Open MPI will
|
|
look in <psm directory>/lib and <psm directory>/lib64, which covers
|
|
most cases. This option is only needed for special configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-sctp=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the SCTP libraries and header files are
|
|
located. This option is generally only necessary if the SCTP headers
|
|
and libraries are not in default compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
SCTP is a special network stack over Ethernet networks.
|
|
|
|
--with-sctp-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the SCTP libraries. By default, Open MPI will
|
|
look in <sctp directory>/lib and <sctp directory>/lib64, which covers
|
|
most cases. This option is only needed for special configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-scif=<dir>
|
|
Look in directory for Intel SCIF support libraries
|
|
|
|
RUN-TIME SYSTEM SUPPORT
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--enable-mpirun-prefix-by-default
|
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This option forces the "mpirun" command to always behave as if
|
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"--prefix $prefix" was present on the command line (where $prefix is
|
|
the value given to the --prefix option to configure). This prevents
|
|
most rsh/ssh-based users from needing to modify their shell startup
|
|
files to set the PATH and/or LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Open MPI on remote
|
|
nodes. Note, however, that such users may still desire to set PATH
|
|
-- perhaps even in their shell startup files -- so that executables
|
|
such as mpicc and mpirun can be found without needing to type long
|
|
path names. --enable-orterun-prefix-by-default is a synonym for
|
|
this option.
|
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|
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--enable-sensors
|
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Enable internal sensors (default: disabled)
|
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|
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--enable-orte-static-ports
|
|
Enable orte static ports for tcp oob. (default: enabled)
|
|
|
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--with-alps
|
|
Force the building of for the Cray Alps run-time environment. If
|
|
Alps support cannot be found, configure will abort.
|
|
|
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--with-cray-pmi-ext
|
|
Include Cray PMI2 extensions.
|
|
|
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--with-loadleveler
|
|
Force the building of LoadLeveler scheduler support. If LoadLeveler
|
|
support cannot be found, configure will abort.
|
|
|
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--with-lsf=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the LSF libraries and header files are
|
|
located. This option is generally only necessary if the LSF headers
|
|
and libraries are not in default compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
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LSF is a resource manager system, frequently used as a batch
|
|
scheduler in HPC systems.
|
|
|
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NOTE: If you are using LSF version 7.0.5, you will need to add
|
|
"LIBS=-ldl" to the configure command line. For example:
|
|
|
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./configure LIBS=-ldl --with-lsf ...
|
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|
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This workaround should *only* be needed for LSF 7.0.5.
|
|
|
|
--with-lsf-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the LSF libraries. By default, Open MPI will
|
|
look in <lsf directory>/lib and <lsf directory>/lib64, which covers
|
|
most cases. This option is only needed for special configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-pmi
|
|
Build PMI support (by default, it is not built). If PMI support
|
|
cannot be found, configure will abort. If the pmi2.h header is found
|
|
in addition to pmi.h, then support for PMI2 will be built.
|
|
|
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--with-slurm
|
|
Force the building of SLURM scheduler support. If SLURM support
|
|
cannot be found, configure will abort.
|
|
|
|
--with-sge
|
|
Specify to build support for the Oracle Grid Engine (OGE) resource
|
|
manager and/or the open Grid Engine. OGE support is disabled by
|
|
default; this option must be specified to build OMPI's OGE support.
|
|
|
|
The Oracle Grid Engine (OGE) and open Grid Engine packages are
|
|
resource manager systems, frequently used as a batch scheduler in
|
|
HPC systems.
|
|
|
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--with-tm=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the TM libraries and header files are
|
|
located. This option is generally only necessary if the TM headers
|
|
and libraries are not in default compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
TM is the support library for the Torque and PBS Pro resource
|
|
manager systems, both of which are frequently used as a batch
|
|
scheduler in HPC systems.
|
|
|
|
MISCELLANEOUS SUPPORT LIBRARIES
|
|
|
|
--with-blcr=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the Berkeley Labs Checkpoint / Restart
|
|
(BLCR) libraries and header files are located. This option is
|
|
generally only necessary if the BLCR headers and libraries are not
|
|
in default compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
This option is only meaningful if the --with-ft option is also used
|
|
to active Open MPI's fault tolerance behavior.
|
|
|
|
--with-blcr-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the BLCR libraries. By default, Open MPI will
|
|
look in <blcr directory>/lib and <blcr directory>/lib64, which
|
|
covers most cases. This option is only needed for special
|
|
configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-dmtcp=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the Distributed MultiThreaded
|
|
Checkpointing (DMTCP) libraries and header files are located. This
|
|
option is generally only necessary if the DMTCP headers and
|
|
libraries are not in default compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
This option is only meaningful if the --with-ft option is also used
|
|
to active Open MPI's fault tolerance behavior.
|
|
|
|
--with-dmtcp-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the DMTCP libraries. By default, Open MPI
|
|
will look in <dmtcp directory>/lib and <dmtcp directory>/lib64,
|
|
which covers most cases. This option is only needed for special
|
|
configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-esmtp=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the libESMTP libraries and header files are
|
|
located. This option is generally only necessary of the libESMTP
|
|
headers and libraries are not included in the default
|
|
compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
libESMTP is a support library for sending e-mail.
|
|
|
|
--with-ftb=<directory>
|
|
Specify the directory where the Fault Tolerant Backplane (FTB)
|
|
libraries and header files are located. This option is generally
|
|
only necessary if the BLCR headers and libraries are not in default
|
|
compiler/linker search paths.
|
|
|
|
--with-ftb-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the FTB libraries. By default, Open MPI will
|
|
look in <ftb directory>/lib and <ftb directory>/lib64, which covers
|
|
most cases. This option is only needed for special configurations.
|
|
|
|
--with-hwloc=<location>
|
|
Build hwloc support. If <location> is "internal", Open MPI's
|
|
internal copy of hwloc is used. If <location> is "external", Open
|
|
MPI will search in default locations for an hwloc installation.
|
|
Finally, if <location> is a directory, that directory will be
|
|
searched for a valid hwloc installation, just like other
|
|
--with-FOO=<directory> configure options.
|
|
|
|
hwloc is a support library that provides processor and memory
|
|
affinity information for NUMA platforms.
|
|
|
|
--with-hwloc-libdir=<directory>
|
|
Look in directory for the hwloc libraries. This option is only
|
|
usable when building Open MPI against an external hwloc
|
|
installation. Just like other --with-FOO-libdir configure options,
|
|
this option is only needed for special configurations.
|
|
|
|
--disable-hwloc-pci
|
|
Disable building hwloc's PCI device-sensing capabilities. On some
|
|
platforms (e.g., SusE 10 SP1, x86-64), the libpci support library is
|
|
broken. Open MPI's configure script should usually detect when
|
|
libpci is not usable due to such brokenness and turn off PCI
|
|
support, but there may be cases when configure mistakenly enables
|
|
PCI support in the presence of a broken libpci. These cases may
|
|
result in "make" failing with warnings about relocation symbols in
|
|
libpci. The --disable-hwloc-pci switch can be used to force Open
|
|
MPI to not build hwloc's PCI device-sensing capabilities in these
|
|
cases.
|
|
|
|
Similarly, if Open MPI incorrectly decides that libpci is broken,
|
|
you can force Open MPI to build hwloc's PCI device-sensing
|
|
capabilities by using --enable-hwloc-pci.
|
|
|
|
hwloc can discover PCI devices and locality, which can be useful for
|
|
Open MPI in assigning message passing resources to MPI processes.
|
|
|
|
--with-libltdl[=VALUE]
|
|
This option specifies where to find the GNU Libtool libltdl support
|
|
library. The following VALUEs are permitted:
|
|
|
|
internal: Use Open MPI's internal copy of libltdl.
|
|
external: Use an external libltdl installation (rely on default
|
|
compiler and linker paths to find it)
|
|
<no value>: Same as "internal".
|
|
<directory>: Specify the location of a specific libltdl
|
|
installation to use
|
|
|
|
By default (or if --with-libltdl is specified with no VALUE), Open
|
|
MPI will build and use the copy of libltdl that it has in its source
|
|
tree. However, if the VALUE is "external", Open MPI will look for
|
|
the relevant libltdl header file and library in default compiler /
|
|
linker locations. Or, VALUE can be a directory tree where the
|
|
libltdl header file and library can be found. This option allows
|
|
operating systems to include Open MPI and use their default libltdl
|
|
installation instead of Open MPI's bundled libltdl.
|
|
|
|
Note that this option is ignored if --disable-dlopen is specified.
|
|
|
|
--disable-libompitrace
|
|
Disable building the simple "libompitrace" library (see note above
|
|
about libompitrace)
|
|
|
|
--with-valgrind=<directory>
|
|
Directory where the valgrind software is installed. If Open MPI
|
|
finds Valgrind's header files, it will include support for
|
|
Valgrind's memory-checking debugger.
|
|
|
|
Specifically, it will eliminate a lot of false positives from
|
|
running Valgrind on MPI applications.
|
|
|
|
--disable-vt
|
|
Disable building VampirTrace.
|
|
|
|
MPI FUNCTIONALITY
|
|
|
|
--with-mpi-param-check(=value)
|
|
"value" can be one of: always, never, runtime. If --with-mpi-param
|
|
is not specified, "runtime" is the default. If --with-mpi-param
|
|
is specified with no value, "always" is used. Using
|
|
--without-mpi-param-check is equivalent to "never".
|
|
|
|
- always: the parameters of MPI functions are always checked for
|
|
errors
|
|
- never: the parameters of MPI functions are never checked for
|
|
errors
|
|
- runtime: whether the parameters of MPI functions are checked
|
|
depends on the value of the MCA parameter mpi_param_check
|
|
(default: yes).
|
|
|
|
--with-threads=value
|
|
Since thread support is only partially tested, it is disabled by
|
|
default. To enable threading, use "--with-threads=posix". This is
|
|
most useful when combined with --enable-mpi-thread-multiple.
|
|
|
|
--enable-mpi-thread-multiple
|
|
Allows the MPI thread level MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE. See
|
|
--with-threads; this is currently disabled by default. Enabling
|
|
this feature will automatically --enable-opal-multi-threads.
|
|
|
|
--enable-opal-multi-threads
|
|
Enables thread lock support in the OPAL and ORTE layers. Does
|
|
not enable MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE - see above option for that feature.
|
|
This is currently disabled by default.
|
|
|
|
--enable-mpi-cxx
|
|
Enable building the C++ MPI bindings. The MPI C++ bindings were
|
|
deprecated in MPI-2.2 and deleted in MPI-3.0. Open MPI no longer
|
|
builds its C++ bindings by default. It is likely that the C++
|
|
bindings will be removed from Open MPI at some point in the future.
|
|
|
|
Note that disabling building the C++ bindings does *not* disable all
|
|
C++ checks during configure.
|
|
|
|
--enable-mpi-java
|
|
Enable building of an EXPERIMENTAL Java MPI interface (disabled by
|
|
default). You may also need to specify --with-jdk-dir,
|
|
--with-jdk-bindir, and/or --with-jdk-headers. See README.JAVA.txt
|
|
for details.
|
|
|
|
Note that this Java interface is INCOMPLETE (meaning: it does not
|
|
support all MPI functionality) and LIKELY TO CHANGE. The Open MPI
|
|
developers would very much like to hear your feedback about this
|
|
interface. See README.JAVA.txt for more details.
|
|
|
|
--disable-mpi-fortran
|
|
Disable building the Fortran MPI bindings. Mutually exclusive to
|
|
--enable-oshmem-fortran.
|
|
|
|
--disable-oshmem-fortran
|
|
Disable building the Fortran OSHMEM bindings.
|
|
|
|
--enable-mpi-ext(=<list>)
|
|
Enable Open MPI's non-portable API extensions. If no <list> is
|
|
specified, all of the extensions are enabled.
|
|
|
|
See "Open MPI API Extensions", below, for more details.
|
|
|
|
--with-io-romio-flags=flags
|
|
Pass flags to the ROMIO distribution configuration script. This
|
|
option is usually only necessary to pass
|
|
parallel-filesystem-specific preprocessor/compiler/linker flags back
|
|
to the ROMIO system.
|
|
|
|
--enable-sparse-groups
|
|
Enable the usage of sparse groups. This would save memory
|
|
significantly especially if you are creating large
|
|
communicators. (Disabled by default)
|
|
|
|
--without-memory-manager
|
|
Disable building Open MPI's memory manager. Open MPI's memory
|
|
manager is usually built on Linux based platforms, and is generally
|
|
only used for optimizations with some OpenFabrics-based networks (it
|
|
is not *necessary* for OpenFabrics networks, but some performance
|
|
loss may be observed without it).
|
|
|
|
However, it may be necessary to disable the memory manager in order
|
|
to build Open MPI statically.
|
|
|
|
--with-ft=TYPE
|
|
Specify the type of fault tolerance to enable. Options: LAM
|
|
(LAM/MPI-like), cr (Checkpoint/Restart). Fault tolerance support is
|
|
disabled unless this option is specified.
|
|
|
|
--enable-peruse
|
|
Enable the PERUSE MPI data analysis interface.
|
|
|
|
--enable-heterogeneous
|
|
Enable support for running on heterogeneous clusters (e.g., machines
|
|
with different endian representations). Heterogeneous support is
|
|
disabled by default because it imposes a minor performance penalty.
|
|
|
|
--with-wrapper-cflags=<cflags>
|
|
--with-wrapper-cxxflags=<cxxflags>
|
|
--with-wrapper-fflags=<fflags>
|
|
--with-wrapper-fcflags=<fcflags>
|
|
--with-wrapper-ldflags=<ldflags>
|
|
--with-wrapper-libs=<libs>
|
|
Add the specified flags to the default flags that used are in Open
|
|
MPI's "wrapper" compilers (e.g., mpicc -- see below for more
|
|
information about Open MPI's wrapper compilers). By default, Open
|
|
MPI's wrapper compilers use the same compilers used to build Open
|
|
MPI and specify an absolute minimum set of additional flags that are
|
|
necessary to compile/link MPI/OSHMEM applications. These configure options
|
|
give system administrators the ability to embed additional flags in
|
|
OMPI's wrapper compilers (which is a local policy decision). The
|
|
meanings of the different flags are:
|
|
|
|
<cflags>: Flags passed by the mpicc wrapper to the C compiler
|
|
<cxxflags>: Flags passed by the mpic++ wrapper to the C++ compiler
|
|
<fcflags>: Flags passed by the mpifort wrapper to the Fortran compiler
|
|
<ldflags>: Flags passed by all the wrappers to the linker
|
|
<libs>: Flags passed by all the wrappers to the linker
|
|
|
|
There are other ways to configure Open MPI's wrapper compiler
|
|
behavior; see the Open MPI FAQ for more information.
|
|
|
|
There are many other options available -- see "./configure --help".
|
|
|
|
Changing the compilers that Open MPI uses to build itself uses the
|
|
standard Autoconf mechanism of setting special environment variables
|
|
either before invoking configure or on the configure command line.
|
|
The following environment variables are recognized by configure:
|
|
|
|
CC - C compiler to use
|
|
CFLAGS - Compile flags to pass to the C compiler
|
|
CPPFLAGS - Preprocessor flags to pass to the C compiler
|
|
|
|
CXX - C++ compiler to use
|
|
CXXFLAGS - Compile flags to pass to the C++ compiler
|
|
CXXCPPFLAGS - Preprocessor flags to pass to the C++ compiler
|
|
|
|
FC - Fortran compiler to use
|
|
FCFLAGS - Compile flags to pass to the Fortran compiler
|
|
|
|
LDFLAGS - Linker flags to pass to all compilers
|
|
LIBS - Libraries to pass to all compilers (it is rarely
|
|
necessary for users to need to specify additional LIBS)
|
|
|
|
PKG_CONFIG - Path to the pkg-config utility
|
|
|
|
For example:
|
|
|
|
shell$ ./configure CC=mycc CXX=myc++ FC=myfortran ...
|
|
|
|
*** NOTE: We generally suggest using the above command line form for
|
|
setting different compilers (vs. setting environment variables and
|
|
then invoking "./configure"). The above form will save all
|
|
variables and values in the config.log file, which makes
|
|
post-mortem analysis easier when problems occur.
|
|
|
|
Note that if you intend to compile Open MPI with a "make" other than
|
|
the default one in your PATH, then you must either set the $MAKE
|
|
environment variable before invoking Open MPI's configure script, or
|
|
pass "MAKE=your_make_prog" to configure. For example:
|
|
|
|
shell$ ./configure MAKE=/path/to/my/make ...
|
|
|
|
This could be the case, for instance, if you have a shell alias for
|
|
"make", or you always type "gmake" out of habit. Failure to tell
|
|
configure which non-default "make" you will use to compile Open MPI
|
|
can result in undefined behavior (meaning: don't do that).
|
|
|
|
Note that you may also want to ensure that the value of
|
|
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set appropriately (or not at all) for your build
|
|
(or whatever environment variable is relevant for your operating
|
|
system). For example, some users have been tripped up by setting to
|
|
use a non-default Fortran compiler via FC, but then failing to set
|
|
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the directory containing that non-default
|
|
Fortran compiler's support libraries. This causes Open MPI's
|
|
configure script to fail when it tries to compile / link / run simple
|
|
Fortran programs.
|
|
|
|
It is required that the compilers specified be compile and link
|
|
compatible, meaning that object files created by one compiler must be
|
|
able to be linked with object files from the other compilers and
|
|
produce correctly functioning executables.
|
|
|
|
Open MPI supports all the "make" targets that are provided by GNU
|
|
Automake, such as:
|
|
|
|
all - build the entire Open MPI package
|
|
install - install Open MPI
|
|
uninstall - remove all traces of Open MPI from the $prefix
|
|
clean - clean out the build tree
|
|
|
|
Once Open MPI has been built and installed, it is safe to run "make
|
|
clean" and/or remove the entire build tree.
|
|
|
|
VPATH and parallel builds are fully supported.
|
|
|
|
Generally speaking, the only thing that users need to do to use Open
|
|
MPI is ensure that <prefix>/bin is in their PATH and <prefix>/lib is
|
|
in their LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Users may need to ensure to set the PATH
|
|
and LD_LIBRARY_PATH in their shell setup files (e.g., .bashrc, .cshrc)
|
|
so that non-interactive rsh/ssh-based logins will be able to find the
|
|
Open MPI executables.
|
|
|
|
===========================================================================
|
|
|
|
Open MPI Version Numbers and Binary Compatibility
|
|
-------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Open MPI has two sets of version numbers that are likely of interest
|
|
to end users / system administrator:
|
|
|
|
* Software version number
|
|
* Shared library version numbers
|
|
|
|
Both are described below, followed by a discussion of application
|
|
binary interface (ABI) compatibility implications.
|
|
|
|
Software Version Number
|
|
-----------------------
|
|
|
|
Open MPI's version numbers are the union of several different values:
|
|
major, minor, release, and an optional quantifier.
|
|
|
|
* Major: The major number is the first integer in the version string
|
|
(e.g., v1.2.3). Changes in the major number typically indicate a
|
|
significant change in the code base and/or end-user
|
|
functionality. The major number is always included in the version
|
|
number.
|
|
|
|
* Minor: The minor number is the second integer in the version
|
|
string (e.g., v1.2.3). Changes in the minor number typically
|
|
indicate a incremental change in the code base and/or end-user
|
|
functionality. The minor number is always included in the version
|
|
number. Starting with Open MPI v1.3.0, the minor release number
|
|
took on additional significance (see this wiki page for more
|
|
details):
|
|
|
|
o Even minor release numbers are part of "super-stable"
|
|
release series (e.g., v1.4.0). Releases in super stable series
|
|
are well-tested, time-tested, and mature. Such releases are
|
|
recomended for production sites. Changes between subsequent
|
|
releases in super stable series are expected to be fairly small.
|
|
o Odd minor release numbers are part of "feature" release
|
|
series (e.g., 1.3.7). Releases in feature releases are
|
|
well-tested, but they are not necessarily time-tested or as
|
|
mature as super stable releases. Changes between subsequent
|
|
releases in feature series may be large.
|
|
|
|
* Release: The release number is the third integer in the version
|
|
string (e.g., v1.2.3). Changes in the release number typically
|
|
indicate a bug fix in the code base and/or end-user
|
|
functionality. If the release number is 0, it is omitted from the
|
|
version number (e.g., v1.2 has a release number of 0).
|
|
|
|
* Quantifier: Open MPI version numbers sometimes have an arbitrary
|
|
string affixed to the end of the version number. Common strings
|
|
include:
|
|
|
|
o aX: Indicates an alpha release. X is an integer indicating
|
|
the number of the alpha release (e.g., v1.2.3a5 indicates the
|
|
5th alpha release of version 1.2.3).
|
|
o bX: Indicates a beta release. X is an integer indicating
|
|
the number of the beta release (e.g., v1.2.3b3 indicates the 3rd
|
|
beta release of version 1.2.3).
|
|
o rcX: Indicates a release candidate. X is an integer
|
|
indicating the number of the release candidate (e.g., v1.2.3rc4
|
|
indicates the 4th release candidate of version 1.2.3).
|
|
o rV or hgV: Indicates the Subversion / Mercurial repository
|
|
number string that the release was made from (V is usually an
|
|
integer for Subversion releases and usually a string for
|
|
Mercurial releases). Although all official Open MPI releases are
|
|
tied to a single, specific Subversion or Mercurial repository
|
|
number (which can be obtained from the ompi_info command), only
|
|
some releases have the Subversion / Mercurial repository number
|
|
in the version number. Development snapshot tarballs, for
|
|
example, have the Subversion repository included in the version
|
|
to reflect that they are a development snapshot of an upcoming
|
|
release (e.g., v1.2.3r1234 indicates a development snapshot of
|
|
version 1.2.3 corresponding to Subversion repository number
|
|
1234).
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|
|
|
Quantifiers may be mixed together -- for example v1.2.3rc7r2345
|
|
indicates a development snapshot of an upcoming 7th release
|
|
candidate for version 1.2.3 corresponding to Subversion repository
|
|
number 2345.
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|
|
|
Shared Library Version Number
|
|
-----------------------------
|
|
|
|
Open MPI started using the GNU Libtool shared library versioning
|
|
scheme with the release of v1.3.2.
|
|
|
|
NOTE: Only official releases of Open MPI adhere to this versioning
|
|
scheme. "Beta" releases, release candidates, and nightly
|
|
tarballs, developer snapshots, and Subversion/Mercurial snapshot
|
|
tarballs likely will all have arbitrary/meaningless shared
|
|
library version numbers.
|
|
|
|
For deep voodoo technical reasons, only the MPI API libraries were
|
|
versioned until Open MPI v1.5 was released (i.e., libmpi*so --
|
|
libopen-rte.so or libopen-pal.so were not versioned until v1.5).
|
|
Please see https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2092 for more
|
|
details.
|
|
|
|
NOTE: This policy change will cause an ABI incompatibility between MPI
|
|
applications compiled/linked against the Open MPI v1.4 series;
|
|
such applications will not be able to upgrade to the Open MPI
|
|
v1.5 series without re-linking. Sorry folks!
|
|
|
|
The GNU Libtool official documentation details how the versioning
|
|
scheme works. The quick version is that the shared library versions
|
|
are a triple of integers: (current,revision,age), or "c:r:a". This
|
|
triple is not related to the Open MPI software version number. There
|
|
are six simple rules for updating the values (taken almost verbatim
|
|
from the Libtool docs):
|
|
|
|
1. Start with version information of "0:0:0" for each shared library.
|
|
|
|
2. Update the version information only immediately before a public
|
|
release of your software. More frequent updates are unnecessary,
|
|
and only guarantee that the current interface number gets larger
|
|
faster.
|
|
|
|
3. If the library source code has changed at all since the last
|
|
update, then increment revision ("c:r:a" becomes "c:r+1:a").
|
|
|
|
4. If any interfaces have been added, removed, or changed since the
|
|
last update, increment current, and set revision to 0.
|
|
|
|
5. If any interfaces have been added since the last public release,
|
|
then increment age.
|
|
|
|
6. If any interfaces have been removed since the last public release,
|
|
then set age to 0.
|
|
|
|
Here's how we apply those rules specifically to Open MPI:
|
|
|
|
1. The above rules do not apply to MCA components (a.k.a. "plugins");
|
|
MCA component .so versions stay unspecified.
|
|
|
|
2. The above rules apply exactly as written to the following
|
|
libraries starting with Open MPI version v1.5 (prior to v1.5,
|
|
libopen-pal and libopen-rte were still at 0:0:0 for reasons
|
|
discussed in bug ticket #2092
|
|
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2092):
|
|
|
|
* libopen-rte
|
|
* libopen-pal
|
|
* libmca_common_*
|
|
|
|
3. The following libraries use a slightly modified version of the
|
|
above rules: rules 4, 5, and 6 only apply to the official MPI
|
|
interfaces (functions, global variables). The rationale for this
|
|
decision is that the vast majority of our users only care about
|
|
the official/public MPI interfaces; we therefore want the .so
|
|
version number to reflect only changes to the official MPI API.
|
|
Put simply: non-MPI API / internal changes to the
|
|
MPI-application-facing libraries are irrelevant to pure MPI
|
|
applications.
|
|
|
|
* libmpi
|
|
* libmpi_mpifh
|
|
* libmpi_usempi_tkr
|
|
* libmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr
|
|
* libmpi_usempif08
|
|
* libmpi_cxx
|
|
|
|
4. Note, however, that libmpi.so can have its "revision" number
|
|
incremented if libopen-rte or libopen-pal change (because these
|
|
two libraries are wholly included in libmpi.so). Specifically:
|
|
the revision will change, but since we have defined that the only
|
|
relevant API interface in libmpi.so is the official MPI API,
|
|
updates to libopen-rte and libopen-pal do not change the "current"
|
|
or "age" numbers of libmpi.so.
|
|
|
|
Application Binary Interface (ABI) Compatibility
|
|
------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Open MPI provided forward application binary interface (ABI)
|
|
compatibility for MPI applications starting with v1.3.2. Prior to
|
|
that version, no ABI guarantees were provided.
|
|
|
|
NOTE: Prior to v1.3.2, subtle and strange failures are almost
|
|
guaranteed to occur if applications were compiled and linked
|
|
against shared libraries from one version of Open MPI and then
|
|
run with another. The Open MPI team strongly discourages making
|
|
any ABI assumptions before v1.3.2.
|
|
|
|
Starting with v1.3.2, Open MPI provides forward ABI compatibility in
|
|
all versions of a given feature release series and its corresponding
|
|
super stable series. For example, on a single platform, an MPI
|
|
application linked against Open MPI v1.3.2 shared libraries can be
|
|
updated to point to the shared libraries in any successive v1.3.x or
|
|
v1.4 release and still work properly (e.g., via the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
|
|
environment variable or other operating system mechanism).
|
|
|
|
For the v1.7 series, this means that all releases of v1.7.x and v1.8.x
|
|
will be ABI compatible, per the above definition.
|
|
|
|
Note that in v1.5.4, a fix was applied to the "large" size of the "use
|
|
mpi" F90 MPI bindings module: two of MPI_SCATTERV's parameters had the
|
|
wrong type and were corrected. Note that this fix *only* applies if
|
|
Open MPI was configured with a Fortran 90 compiler and the
|
|
--with-mpi-f90-size=large configure option.
|
|
|
|
However, in order to preserve the ABI with respect to prior v1.5.x
|
|
releases, the old/incorrect MPI_SCATTERV interface was preserved in
|
|
1.5.5 and all 1.6.x releases. A new/corrected interface was added
|
|
(note that Fortran 90 has function overloading, similar to C++; hence,
|
|
both the old and new interface can be accessed via "call
|
|
MPI_Scatterv(...)").
|
|
|
|
The incorrect interface was removed in Open MPI v1.7.
|
|
|
|
To be clear: applications that use the old/incorrect MPI_SCATTERV
|
|
binding will no longer be able to compile properly (*). Developers
|
|
must fix their applications or use an older version of Open MPI.
|
|
|
|
(*) Note that using this incorrect MPI_SCATTERV interface will not be
|
|
recongized in v1.7 if you are using gfortran (as of gfortran
|
|
v4.8).
|
|
|
|
This is because gfortran <=v4.8 does not (yet) have the support
|
|
Open MPI needs for its new, full-featured "mpi" and "mpi_f08"
|
|
modules. Hence, Open MPI falls back to the same "mpi" module from
|
|
the v1.6 series, but the "large" size of that module -- which
|
|
contains the MPI_SCATTERV interface -- been disabled because it is
|
|
broken. Further, this "large" sized (old) "mpi" module has been
|
|
deemed unworthy of fixing because it has been wholly replaced by a
|
|
new, full-featured "mpi" module. We anticipate supporting
|
|
gfortran in the new, full-featured module in the future.
|
|
|
|
Open MPI reserves the right to break ABI compatibility at new feature
|
|
release series. For example, the same MPI application from above
|
|
(linked against Open MPI v1.3.2 shared libraries) will *not* work with
|
|
Open MPI v1.5 shared libraries.
|
|
|
|
===========================================================================
|
|
|
|
Checking Your Open MPI Installation
|
|
-----------------------------------
|
|
|
|
The "ompi_info" command can be used to check the status of your Open
|
|
MPI installation (located in <prefix>/bin/ompi_info). Running it with
|
|
no arguments provides a summary of information about your Open MPI
|
|
installation.
|
|
|
|
Note that the ompi_info command is extremely helpful in determining
|
|
which components are installed as well as listing all the run-time
|
|
settable parameters that are available in each component (as well as
|
|
their default values).
|
|
|
|
The following options may be helpful:
|
|
|
|
--all Show a *lot* of information about your Open MPI
|
|
installation.
|
|
--parsable Display all the information in an easily
|
|
grep/cut/awk/sed-able format.
|
|
--param <framework> <component>
|
|
A <framework> of "all" and a <component> of "all" will
|
|
show all parameters to all components. Otherwise, the
|
|
parameters of all the components in a specific framework,
|
|
or just the parameters of a specific component can be
|
|
displayed by using an appropriate <framework> and/or
|
|
<component> name.
|
|
--level <level>
|
|
Show MCA parameters up to level <level> (<level> defaults
|
|
to 1 if not specified; 9 is the maximum value). Use
|
|
"ompi_info --param <framework> <component> --level 9" to
|
|
see *all* MCA parameters for a given component. See "The
|
|
Modular Component Architecture (MCA)" section, below, for
|
|
a fuller explanation.
|
|
|
|
Changing the values of these parameters is explained in the "The
|
|
Modular Component Architecture (MCA)" section, below.
|
|
|
|
When verifying a new Open MPI installation, we recommend running six
|
|
tests:
|
|
|
|
1. Use "mpirun" to launch a non-MPI program (e.g., hostname or uptime)
|
|
across multiple nodes.
|
|
|
|
2. Use "mpirun" to launch a trivial MPI program that does no MPI
|
|
communication (e.g., the hello_c program in the examples/ directory
|
|
in the Open MPI distribution).
|
|
|
|
3. Use "mpirun" to launch a trivial MPI program that sends and
|
|
receives a few MPI messages (e.g., the ring_c program in the
|
|
examples/ directory in the Open MPI distribution).
|
|
|
|
4. Use "oshrun" to launch a non-OSHMEM program across multiple nodes.
|
|
|
|
5. Use "oshrun" to launch a trivial MPI program that does no OSHMEM
|
|
communication (e.g., hello_shmem.c program in the examples/ directory
|
|
in the Open MPI distribution.)
|
|
|
|
6. Use "oshrun" to launch a trivial OSHMEM program that puts and gets
|
|
a few messages. (e.g., the ring_shmem.c in the examples/ directory
|
|
in the Open MPI distribution.)
|
|
|
|
If you can run all six of these tests successfully, that is a good
|
|
indication that Open MPI built and installed properly.
|
|
|
|
===========================================================================
|
|
|
|
Open MPI API Extensions
|
|
-----------------------
|
|
|
|
Open MPI contains a framework for extending the MPI API that is
|
|
available to applications. Each extension is usually a standalone set of
|
|
functionality that is distinct from other extensions (similar to how
|
|
Open MPI's plugins are usually unrelated to each other). These
|
|
extensions provide new functions and/or constants that are available
|
|
to MPI applications.
|
|
|
|
WARNING: These extensions are neither standard nor portable to other
|
|
MPI implementations!
|
|
|
|
Compiling the extensions
|
|
------------------------
|
|
|
|
Open MPI extensions are not enabled by default; they must be enabled
|
|
by Open MPI's configure script. The --enable-mpi-ext command line
|
|
switch accepts a comma-delimited list of extensions to enable, or, if
|
|
it is specified without a list, all extensions are enabled.
|
|
|
|
Since extensions are meant to be used by advanced users only, this
|
|
file does not document which extensions are available or what they
|
|
do. Look in the ompi/mpiext/ directory to see the extensions; each
|
|
subdirectory of that directory contains an extension. Each has a
|
|
README file that describes what it does.
|
|
|
|
Using the extensions
|
|
--------------------
|
|
|
|
To reinforce the fact that these extensions are non-standard, you must
|
|
include a separate header file after <mpi.h> to obtain the function
|
|
prototypes, constant declarations, etc. For example:
|
|
|
|
-----
|
|
#include <mpi.h>
|
|
#if defined(OPEN_MPI) && OPEN_MPI
|
|
#include <mpi-ext.h>
|
|
#endif
|
|
|
|
int main() {
|
|
MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);
|
|
|
|
#if defined(OPEN_MPI) && OPEN_MPI
|
|
{
|
|
char ompi_bound[OMPI_AFFINITY_STRING_MAX];
|
|
char current_binding[OMPI_AFFINITY_STRING_MAX];
|
|
char exists[OMPI_AFFINITY_STRING_MAX];
|
|
OMPI_Affinity_str(OMPI_AFFINITY_LAYOUT_FMT, ompi_bound,
|
|
current_bindings, exists);
|
|
}
|
|
#endif
|
|
MPI_Finalize();
|
|
return 0;
|
|
}
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
Notice that the Open MPI-specific code is surrounded by the #if
|
|
statement to ensure that it is only ever compiled by Open MPI.
|
|
|
|
The Open MPI wrapper compilers (mpicc and friends) should
|
|
automatically insert all relevant compiler and linker flags necessary
|
|
to use the extensions. No special flags or steps should be necessary
|
|
compared to "normal" MPI applications.
|
|
|
|
===========================================================================
|
|
|
|
Compiling Open MPI Applications
|
|
-------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Open MPI provides "wrapper" compilers that should be used for
|
|
compiling MPI and OSHMEM applications:
|
|
|
|
C: mpicc, oshcc
|
|
C++: mpiCC, oshCC (or mpic++ if your filesystem is case-insensitive)
|
|
Fortran: mpifort, oshfort
|
|
|
|
For example:
|
|
|
|
shell$ mpicc hello_world_mpi.c -o hello_world_mpi -g
|
|
shell$
|
|
|
|
For OSHMEM applications:
|
|
|
|
shell$ oshcc hello_shmem.c -o hello_shmem -g
|
|
shell$
|
|
|
|
All the wrapper compilers do is add a variety of compiler and linker
|
|
flags to the command line and then invoke a back-end compiler. To be
|
|
specific: the wrapper compilers do not parse source code at all; they
|
|
are solely command-line manipulators, and have nothing to do with the
|
|
actual compilation or linking of programs. The end result is an MPI
|
|
executable that is properly linked to all the relevant libraries.
|
|
|
|
Customizing the behavior of the wrapper compilers is possible (e.g.,
|
|
changing the compiler [not recommended] or specifying additional
|
|
compiler/linker flags); see the Open MPI FAQ for more information.
|
|
|
|
Alternatively, starting in the Open MPI v1.5 series, Open MPI also
|
|
installs pkg-config(1) configuration files under $libdir/pkgconfig.
|
|
If pkg-config is configured to find these files, then compiling /
|
|
linking Open MPI programs can be performed like this:
|
|
|
|
shell$ gcc hello_world_mpi.c -o hello_world_mpi -g \
|
|
`pkg-config ompi-c --cflags --libs`
|
|
shell$
|
|
|
|
Open MPI supplies multiple pkg-config(1) configuration files; one for
|
|
each different wrapper compiler (language):
|
|
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
ompi Synonym for "ompi-c"; Open MPI applications using the C
|
|
MPI bindings
|
|
ompi-c Open MPI applications using the C MPI bindings
|
|
ompi-cxx Open MPI applications using the C or C++ MPI bindings
|
|
ompi-fort Open MPI applications using the Fortran MPI bindings
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
The following pkg-config(1) configuration files *may* be installed,
|
|
depending on which command line options were specified to Open MPI's
|
|
configure script. They are not necessary for MPI applications, but
|
|
may be used by applications that use Open MPI's lower layer support
|
|
libraries.
|
|
|
|
orte: Open MPI Run-Time Environment applicaions
|
|
opal: Open Portable Access Layer applications
|
|
|
|
===========================================================================
|
|
|
|
Running Open MPI Applications
|
|
-----------------------------
|
|
|
|
Open MPI supports both mpirun and mpiexec (they are exactly
|
|
equivalent) to launch MPI applications. For example:
|
|
|
|
shell$ mpirun -np 2 hello_world_mpi
|
|
or
|
|
shell$ mpiexec -np 1 hello_world_mpi : -np 1 hello_world_mpi
|
|
|
|
are equivalent. Some of mpiexec's switches (such as -host and -arch)
|
|
are not yet functional, although they will not error if you try to use
|
|
them.
|
|
|
|
The rsh launcher (which defaults to using ssh) accepts a -hostfile
|
|
parameter (the option "-machinefile" is equivalent); you can specify a
|
|
-hostfile parameter indicating an standard mpirun-style hostfile (one
|
|
hostname per line):
|
|
|
|
shell$ mpirun -hostfile my_hostfile -np 2 hello_world_mpi
|
|
|
|
If you intend to run more than one process on a node, the hostfile can
|
|
use the "slots" attribute. If "slots" is not specified, a count of 1
|
|
is assumed. For example, using the following hostfile:
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
node1.example.com
|
|
node2.example.com
|
|
node3.example.com slots=2
|
|
node4.example.com slots=4
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
shell$ mpirun -hostfile my_hostfile -np 8 hello_world_mpi
|
|
|
|
will launch MPI_COMM_WORLD rank 0 on node1, rank 1 on node2, ranks 2
|
|
and 3 on node3, and ranks 4 through 7 on node4.
|
|
|
|
Other starters, such as the resource manager / batch scheduling
|
|
environments, do not require hostfiles (and will ignore the hostfile
|
|
if it is supplied). They will also launch as many processes as slots
|
|
have been allocated by the scheduler if no "-np" argument has been
|
|
provided. For example, running a SLURM job with 8 processors:
|
|
|
|
shell$ salloc -n 8 mpirun a.out
|
|
|
|
The above command will reserve 8 processors and run 1 copy of mpirun,
|
|
which will, in turn, launch 8 copies of a.out in a single
|
|
MPI_COMM_WORLD on the processors that were allocated by SLURM.
|
|
|
|
Note that the values of component parameters can be changed on the
|
|
mpirun / mpiexec command line. This is explained in the section
|
|
below, "The Modular Component Architecture (MCA)".
|
|
|
|
Open MPI supports oshrun to launch OSHMEM applications. For example:
|
|
|
|
shell$ oshrun -np 2 hello_world_oshmem
|
|
|
|
OSHMEM applications may also be launched directly by resource managers such as
|
|
SLURM. For example, when OMPI is configured --with-pmi and --with-slurm one may
|
|
launch OSHMEM applications via srun
|
|
|
|
shell$ srun -N 2 hello_world_oshmem
|
|
|
|
|
|
===========================================================================
|
|
|
|
The Modular Component Architecture (MCA)
|
|
|
|
The MCA is the backbone of Open MPI -- most services and functionality
|
|
are implemented through MCA components. Here is a list of all the
|
|
component frameworks in Open MPI:
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MPI component frameworks:
|
|
-------------------------
|
|
|
|
allocator - Memory allocator
|
|
bcol - Base collective operations
|
|
bml - BTL management layer
|
|
btl - MPI point-to-point Byte Transfer Layer, used for MPI
|
|
point-to-point messages on some types of networks
|
|
coll - MPI collective algorithms
|
|
crcp - Checkpoint/restart coordination protocol
|
|
dpm - MPI-2 dynamic process management
|
|
fbtl - file byte transfer layer: abstraction for individual
|
|
read/write operations for OMPIO
|
|
fcoll - collective read and write operations for MPI I/O
|
|
fs - file system functions for MPI I/O
|
|
io - MPI-2 I/O
|
|
mpool - Memory pooling
|
|
mtl - Matching transport layer, used for MPI point-to-point
|
|
messages on some types of networks
|
|
op - Back end computations for intrinsic MPI_Op operators
|
|
osc - MPI-2 one-sided communications
|
|
pml - MPI point-to-point management layer
|
|
pubsub - MPI-2 publish/subscribe management
|
|
rcache - Memory registration cache
|
|
rte - Run-time environment operations
|
|
sbgp - Collective operation sub-group
|
|
sharedfp - shared file pointer operations for MPI I/O
|
|
topo - MPI topology routines
|
|
vprotocol - Protocols for the "v" PML
|
|
|
|
OSHMEM component frameworks:
|
|
-------------------------
|
|
|
|
atomic - OSHMEM atomic operations
|
|
memheap - OSHMEM memory allocators that support the
|
|
PGAS memory model
|
|
scoll - OSHMEM collective operations
|
|
spml - OSHMEM "pml-like" layer: supports one-sided,
|
|
point-to-point operations
|
|
|
|
|
|
Back-end run-time environment (RTE) component frameworks:
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
dfs - Distributed filesystem
|
|
errmgr - RTE error manager
|
|
ess - RTE environment-specfic services
|
|
filem - Remote file management
|
|
grpcomm - RTE group communications
|
|
iof - I/O forwarding
|
|
odls - OpenRTE daemon local launch subsystem
|
|
oob - Out of band messaging
|
|
plm - Process lifecycle management
|
|
ras - Resource allocation system
|
|
rmaps - Resource mapping system
|
|
rml - RTE message layer
|
|
routed - Routing table for the RML
|
|
sensor - Software and hardware health monitoring
|
|
snapc - Snapshot coordination
|
|
sstore - Distributed scalable storage
|
|
state - RTE state machine
|
|
|
|
Miscellaneous frameworks:
|
|
-------------------------
|
|
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backtrace - Debugging call stack backtrace support
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compress - Compression algorithms
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crs - Checkpoint and restart service
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db - Internal database support
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event - Event library (libevent) versioning support
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hwloc - Hardware locality (hwloc) versioning support
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if - OS IP interface support
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installdirs - Installation directory relocation services
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memchecker - Run-time memory checking
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memcpy - Memopy copy support
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memory - Memory management hooks
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pstat - Process status
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shmem - Shared memory support (NOT related to OSHMEM)
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timer - High-resolution timers
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Each framework typically has one or more components that are used at
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run-time. For example, the btl framework is used by the MPI layer to
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send bytes across different types underlying networks. The tcp btl,
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for example, sends messages across TCP-based networks; the openib btl
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sends messages across OpenFabrics-based networks; the MX btl sends
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messages across Myrinet MX / Open-MX networks.
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Each component typically has some tunable parameters that can be
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changed at run-time. Use the ompi_info command to check a component
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to see what its tunable parameters are. For example:
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shell$ ompi_info --param btl tcp
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shows a some of parameters (and default values) for the tcp btl
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component.
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Note that ompi_info only shows a small number a component's MCA
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parameters by default. Each MCA parameter has a "level" value from 1
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to 9, corresponding to the MPI-3 MPI_T tool interface levels. In Open
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MPI, we have interpreted these nine levels as three groups of three:
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1. End user / basic
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2. End user / detailed
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3. End user / all
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4. Application tuner / basic
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5. Application tuner / detailed
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6. Application tuner / all
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7. MPI/OSHMEM developer / basic
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8. MPI/OSHMEM developer / detailed
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9. MPI/OSHMEM developer / all
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Here's how the three sub-groups are defined:
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1. End user: Generally, these are parameters that are required for
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correctness, meaning that someone may need to set these just to
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get their MPI/OSHMEM application to run correctly.
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2. Application tuner: Generally, these are parameters that can be
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used to tweak MPI application performance.
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3. MPI/OSHMEM developer: Parameters that either don't fit in the other two,
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or are specifically intended for debugging / development of Open
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MPI itself.
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Each sub-group is broken down into three classifications:
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1. Basic: For parameters that everyone in this category will want to
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see.
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2. Detailed: Parameters that are useful, but you probably won't need
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to change them often.
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3. All: All other parameters -- probably including some fairly
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esoteric parameters.
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To see *all* available parameters for a given component, specify that
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ompi_info should use level 9:
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shell$ ompi_info --param btl tcp --level 9
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These values can be overridden at run-time in several ways. At
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run-time, the following locations are examined (in order) for new
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values of parameters:
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1. <prefix>/etc/openmpi-mca-params.conf
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This file is intended to set any system-wide default MCA parameter
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values -- it will apply, by default, to all users who use this Open
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MPI installation. The default file that is installed contains many
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comments explaining its format.
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2. $HOME/.openmpi/mca-params.conf
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If this file exists, it should be in the same format as
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<prefix>/etc/openmpi-mca-params.conf. It is intended to provide
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per-user default parameter values.
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3. environment variables of the form OMPI_MCA_<name> set equal to a
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<value>
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Where <name> is the name of the parameter. For example, set the
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variable named OMPI_MCA_btl_tcp_frag_size to the value 65536
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(Bourne-style shells):
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shell$ OMPI_MCA_btl_tcp_frag_size=65536
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shell$ export OMPI_MCA_btl_tcp_frag_size
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4. the mpirun/oshrun command line: --mca <name> <value>
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Where <name> is the name of the parameter. For example:
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shell$ mpirun --mca btl_tcp_frag_size 65536 -np 2 hello_world_mpi
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These locations are checked in order. For example, a parameter value
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passed on the mpirun command line will override an environment
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variable; an environment variable will override the system-wide
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defaults.
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Each component typically activates itself when relavant. For example,
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the MX component will detect that MX devices are present and will
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automatically be used for MPI communications. The SLURM component
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will automatically detect when running inside a SLURM job and activate
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itself. And so on.
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Components can be manually activated or deactivated if necessary, of
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course. The most common components that are manually activated,
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deactivated, or tuned are the "BTL" components -- components that are
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used for MPI point-to-point communications on many types common
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networks.
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For example, to *only* activate the TCP and "self" (process loopback)
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components are used for MPI communications, specify them in a
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comma-delimited list to the "btl" MCA parameter:
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shell$ mpirun --mca btl tcp,self hello_world_mpi
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To add shared memory support, add "sm" into the command-delimited list
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(list order does not matter):
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shell$ mpirun --mca btl tcp,sm,self hello_world_mpi
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To specifically deactivate a specific component, the comma-delimited
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list can be prepended with a "^" to negate it:
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shell$ mpirun --mca btl ^tcp hello_mpi_world
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The above command will use any other BTL component other than the tcp
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component.
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===========================================================================
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Common Questions
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----------------
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Many common questions about building and using Open MPI are answered
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on the FAQ:
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http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/
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===========================================================================
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Got more questions?
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Found a bug? Got a question? Want to make a suggestion? Want to
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contribute to Open MPI? Please let us know!
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When submitting questions and problems, be sure to include as much
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extra information as possible. This web page details all the
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information that we request in order to provide assistance:
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http://www.open-mpi.org/community/help/
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User-level questions and comments should generally be sent to the
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user's mailing list (users@open-mpi.org). Because of spam, only
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subscribers are allowed to post to this list (ensure that you
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subscribe with and post from *exactly* the same e-mail address --
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joe@example.com is considered different than
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user's list:
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http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
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Developer-level bug reports, questions, and comments should generally
|
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be sent to the developer's mailing list (devel@open-mpi.org). Please
|
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do not post the same question to both lists. As with the user's list,
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only subscribers are allowed to post to the developer's list. Visit
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http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
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