Hi Everyone,
This is going to be a long email, so please bear with me. The example programs
are obtained from lam-mpi.org site ...
My ultimate goal is to get Open MPI working with openIB stack. First, I had
installed lam-mpi , I know it doesn't have support for openIB but it's still
relevant to some of my questions I will ask.. Here is the set up I have:
I have two machines, pe830-01 and pe830-02 .. Both have ethernet interface and
HCA interface. The IP addresses follow:
eth0 ib0
pe830-01 10.12.4.32 192.168.1.32
pe830-02 10.12.4.34 192.168.1.34
When I downloaded, installed lam-mpi, things seemed to work just fine.. For
example:
$ cat /path/to/lamhostsfile
192.168.1.34
192.168.1.32
$ lamboot -v -ssi boot rsh -ssi rsh_agent "ssh -x" /path/to/lamhostsfile
LAM 7.1.2/MPI 2 C++/ROMIO - Indiana University
n-1<6456> ssi:boot:base:linear: booting n0 (192.168.1.34)
n-1<6456> ssi:boot:base:linear: booting n1 (192.168.1.32)
n-1<6456> ssi:boot:base:linear: finished
$ lamnodes
n0 pe830-02.domain.com:1:origin,this_node
n1 192.168.1.32:1:
$ /usr/local/lam/bin/mpirun C /path/to/hello_world
Hello, world, I am 0 of 2 and this is on : pe830-02.
Hello, world, I am 1 of 2 and this is on: pe830-01.
$ /usr/local/lam/bin/mpirun C /path/to/broadcast
Enter the vector length: 4
i am: 0 , and i have 2 vector elements
i am: 1 , and i have 2 vector elements
[0] 4.000000
[0] 4.000000
[0] 4.000000
[0] 4.000000
So this has worked even though it lamhosts file is configured to use ib0
interfaces. I further verified with tcpdump command that none of this went
to eth0 ..
Anyhow, if i change the lamhosts file to use the eth0 IPs, things work just
as the same with no issues . And in that case i see some traffic on eth0
with tcpdump.
Now, when i installed and used Open MPI, things didn't work as
easy.. Here is
what happens. After recompiling the sources with the mpicc that comes with
open-mpi:
$ /usr/local/openmpi/bin/mpirun --prefix /usr/local/openmpi --mca
pls_rsh_agent ssh --mca btl tcp -np 2 --host 10.12.4.34,10.12.4.32
/path/to/hello_world
Hello, world, I am 0 of 2 and this is on : pe830-02.
Hello, world, I am 1 of 2 and this is on: pe830-01.
So far so good, using eth0 interfaces.. hello_world works just fine. Now,
when i try the broadcast program:
$ /usr/local/openmpi/bin/mpirun --prefix /usr/local/openmpi --mca
pls_rsh_agent ssh --mca btl tcp -np 2 --host 10.12.4.34,10.12.4.32
/path/to/broadcast
It just hangs there, it doesn't prompt me the "Enter the vector length:"
string . So i just enter a number anyway since i know the behavior of the
program:
10
Enter the vector length: i am: 0 , and i have 5 vector elements
i am: 1 , and i have 5 vector elements
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
[0] 10.000000
So, that's the first bump with the openmpi.. Now , if i try to use ib0
interfaces instead of eth0 ones, i get:
$ /usr/local/openmpi/bin/mpirun --prefix /usr/local/openmpi --mca
pls_rsh_agent ssh --mca btl openib -np 2 --host 192.168.1.34,192.168.1.32
/path/to/hello_world
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
No available btl components were found!
This means that there are no components of this type installed on your
system or all the components reported that they could not be used.
This is a fatal error; your MPI process is likely to abort. Check the
output of the "ompi_info" command and ensure that components of this
type are available on your system. You may also wish to check the
value of the "component_path" MCA parameter and ensure that it has at
least one directory that contains valid MCA components.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
[pe830-01.domain.com:05942]
I know, it thinks that it doesn't have openib components installed, however,
ompi_info on both machines say otherwise:
$ ompi_info | grep openib
MCA mpool: openib (MCA v1.0, API v1.0, Component v1.0.2)
MCA btl: openib (MCA v1.0, API v1.0, Component v1.0.2)
Now the questions are...
1- In the case of using lam/mpi over ib0 interfaces.. Does lam/mpi
automatically just use IPoIB ?
2 - Is there a tcpdump-like utility to dump the traffic on Infiniband HCAs?
3 - In the case of Open MPI, does --mca btl arg option have to be passed
everytime? For example,
$ /usr/local/openmpi/bin/mpirun --prefix /usr/local/openmpi --mca
pls_rsh_agent ssh --mca btl tcp -np 2 --host 10.12.4.34,10.12.4.32
/path/to/hello_world
works just fine, but the same command without the "--mca btl tcp" bit gives
the:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
It looks like MPI_INIT failed for some reason; your parallel process is
likely to abort. There are many reasons that a parallel process can
fail during MPI_INIT; some of which are due to configuration or environment
problems. This failure appears to be an internal failure; here's some
additional information (which may only be relevant to an Open MPI
developer):
PML add procs failed
--> Returned value -2 instead of OMPI_SUCCESS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** An error occurred in MPI_Init
*** before MPI was initialized
*** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (goodbye)
error ...
4 - How come the behavior of broadcast.c was different on Open MPI
than it is
on lam/mpi?
5 - Any ideas as to why i am getting no btl component error when i want to
use openib even though ompi_info shows it? If it help any further , I have
the following openib modules :
$ /sbin/lsmod | grep ib_
ib_mthca 125141 0
ib_ipoib 39493 0
ib_uverbs 39145 0
ib_umad 17009 0
ib_ucm 18373 0
ib_sa 13429 1 ib_ipoib
ib_cm 44581 1 ib_ucm
ib_mad 42345 4 ib_mthca,ib_umad,ib_sa,ib_cm
ib_core 43073 8
ib_mthca,ib_ipoib,ib_uverbs,ib_umad,ib_ucm,ib_sa,ib_cm,ib_mad
Thanks in advance for all help.
gurhan
PS: In hello_world.c attachment hostnames are hardcoded for each box.
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