<div dir="ltr">Dear Prof. Marks,<div><br></div><div style> Just a quick question : in case that the openmpi launcher replaces ssh, should I change <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">USE_REMOTE to 0 in a cluster ?</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Thank you one more time,</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Luis</span></div><div style>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/7/27 Laurence Marks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:L-marks@northwestern.edu" target="_blank">L-marks@northwestern.edu</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">WARNING 1: To be used with care, and customized as needed<br>
WARNING 2: Valid for impi and perhaps other, but not all variants<br>
WARNING 3: Please look at what these options mean...<br>
<br>
My parallel_options file with NU's supercomputer, which contains<br>
various debug and other options (some recommended by Intel, some by<br>
the local sys_admin):<br>
<br>
setenv USE_REMOTE 1<br>
setenv MPI_REMOTE 0<br>
setenv WIEN_GRANULARITY 1<br>
setenv DAPL_DBG_TYPE 0<br>
# Normal<br>
#setenv WIEN_MPIRUN "mpirun -n _NP_ -machinefile _HOSTS_ _EXEC_ "<br>
<br>
# To turn on verbose<br>
#setenv WIEN_MPIRUN "mpirun -bootstrap-exec ~/bin/hssh -n _NP_<br>
-machinefile _HOSTS_ _EXEC_ "<br>
<br>
# To use more recent, privately compiled ssh<br>
#setenv WIEN_MPIRUN "mpirun -bootstrap-exec $HOME/local/bin/ssh -n<br>
_NP_ -machinefile _HOSTS_ _EXEC_ "<br>
<br>
# To use openmpi to launch<br>
setenv WIEN_MPIRUN "mpirun -bootstrap-exec $WIENROOT/hopen -n _NP_<br>
-machinefile _HOSTS_ _EXEC_ "<br>
<br>
set sleepy = 0.2<br>
set delay = 0.1<br>
unset DAPL_DBG<br>
#Turn on Hydra debug on Quest<br>
#setenv I_MPI_HYDRA_DEBUG 1<br>
#Turn on MPI DEBUG<br>
#setenv I_MPI_DEBUG 1<br>
#setenv I_MPI_DEBUG_OUTPUT mpi_debug%h_%r<br>
setenv I_MPI_FABRICS_LIST dapl,tcp<br>
setenv I_MPI_FALLBACK enable<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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<br>
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Luis Ogando <<a href="mailto:lcodacal@gmail.com">lcodacal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear Prof. Marks,<br>
><br>
> Could you, please, send me a template for the parallel_options file where<br>
> this implementation was done ?<br>
> I am sorry for that, but I am really far from being an expert.<br>
> All the best,<br>
> Luis<br>
><br>
><br>
> 2013/7/22 Laurence Marks <<a href="mailto:L-marks@northwestern.edu">L-marks@northwestern.edu</a>><br>
>><br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">>> A brief followup which may be useful (or not) for others in the future<br>
>> with mpi problems. I have been able to work around a mysterious<br>
>> impi/ssh bug on NU's supercomputer by replacing ssh by the<br>
>> openmpi/mpirun launcher. The hack is gross, but very stable.<br>
>><br>
>> Step 1:<br>
>> 1) Add "--bootstrap-exec=$WIENROOT/hopen" to $WIENROOT/parallel_options.<br>
>> 2) Create the executable file $WIENROOT/hopen containing<br>
>> #!/bin/bash<br>
>> a=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/-x -q//'`<br>
>> $OPENMPI/bin/mpirun -np 1 --host $a<br>
>><br>
>> (change $OPENMPI to where it has been compiled).<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Laurence Marks<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:L-marks@northwestern.edu">L-marks@northwestern.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > On a cluster I am using I am having a problem with ssh connections as<br>
>> > part of impi/mpirun about 0.1-0.2% of the time; what happens is that<br>
>> > they fail to launch and become zombie's (ps shows "[ssh] <defunct>").<br>
>> > Since fiddling through all the options within mpirun can be hard<br>
>> > (particularly for impi which is rather fast), I found (after a comment<br>
>> > from someone on the openssh list) a useful hack. I am providing it<br>
>> > here as it is a nice way around things, and might be useful to others<br>
>> > in the future.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > The "trick" is to add --bootstrap-exec ~/bin/hssh or similar to the<br>
>> > mpirun line in $WIENROOT/parallel_options, then create the executable<br>
>> > ~/bin/hssh with something similar to:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > #!/bin/bash<br>
>> > a=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/-q/-v/'`<br>
>> > ssh $a<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > The above allows me to turn verbose output on in the ssh command since<br>
>> > impi insists on setting -q (quiet). For other cases something similar<br>
>> > can be done.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > --<br>
>> > Professor Laurence Marks<br>
>> > Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>
>> > Northwestern University<br>
>> > <a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a> <a href="tel:1-847-491-3996" value="+18474913996">1-847-491-3996</a><br>
>> > "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what<br>
>> > nobody else has thought"<br>
>> > Albert Szent-Gyorgi<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Professor Laurence Marks<br>
>> Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>
>> Northwestern University<br>
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>> "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what<br>
>> nobody else has thought"<br>
>> Albert Szent-Gyorgi<br>
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