Hi Ralph,
Thanks for your feedback.
No, this is the other way around, the “reserved” slots on all nodes are ok but the “used” slots are different.
Basically, I’m using SGE to schedule and book resources for a distributed job. When the job is finally launched, it uses a different allocation than the one that was reported by pls_gridengine_info.
pls_grid_engine_info report states that 3 nodes were booked: barney (1 slot), carl (1 slot) and charlie (2 slots). This booking was done by sge depending on the memory requirements of the job (among others).
When orterun starts the jobs (i.e. when Sge finally start the scheduled job), it uses 3 nodes but the first one (barney: 2 slots instead of 1) is oversubscribed and the last one (carl: 1 slot instead of 2) is underused.
If you need further information, please let me know.
Eloi
From: users-bounces@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-bounces@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain
Sent: mardi 3 avril 2012 15:58
To: Open MPI Users
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] sge tight intregration leads to bad allocation
I'm afraid there isn't enough info here to help. Are you saying you only allocated one slot/node, so the two slots on charlie is in error?
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On Apr 3, 2012, at 6:23 AM, "Eloi Gaudry" <eloi.gaudry@fft.be> wrote:
Hi,
I’ve observed a strange behavior during rank allocation on a distributed run schedule and submitted using Sge (Son of Grid Egine 8.0.0d) and OpenMPI-1.4.4.
Briefly, there is a one-slot difference between allocated rank/slot for Sge and OpenMPI. The issue here is that one node becomes oversubscribed at runtime.
Here is the output of the allocation done for gridengine:
====================== ALLOCATED NODES ======================
Data for node: Name: barney Launch id: -1 Arch: ffc91200 State: 2
Num boards: 1 Num sockets/board: 2 Num cores/socket: 2
Daemon: [[22904,0],0] Daemon launched: True
Num slots: 1 Slots in use: 0
Num slots allocated: 1 Max slots: 0
Username on node: NULL
Num procs: 0 Next node_rank: 0
Data for node: Name: carl.fft Launch id: -1 Arch: 0 State: 2
Num boards: 1 Num sockets/board: 2 Num cores/socket: 2
Daemon: Not defined Daemon launched: False
Num slots: 1 Slots in use: 0
Num slots allocated: 1 Max slots: 0
Username on node: NULL
Num procs: 0 Next node_rank: 0
Data for node: Name: charlie.fft Launch id: -1 Arch: 0 State: 2
Num boards: 1 Num sockets/board: 2 Num cores/socket: 2
Daemon: Not defined Daemon launched: False
Num slots: 2 Slots in use: 0
Num slots allocated: 2 Max slots: 0
Username on node: NULL
Num procs: 0 Next node_rank: 0
And here is the allocation finally used:
=================================================================
Map generated by mapping policy: 0200
Npernode: 0 Oversubscribe allowed: TRUE CPU Lists: FALSE
Num new daemons: 2 New daemon starting vpid 1
Num nodes: 3
Data for node: Name: barney Launch id: -1 Arch: ffc91200 State: 2
Num boards: 1 Num sockets/board: 2 Num cores/socket: 2
Daemon: [[22904,0],0] Daemon launched: True
Num slots: 1 Slots in use: 2
Num slots allocated: 1 Max slots: 0
Username on node: NULL
Num procs: 2 Next node_rank: 2
Data for proc: [[22904,1],0]
Pid: 0 Local rank: 0 Node rank: 0
State: 0 App_context: 0 Slot list: NULL
Data for proc: [[22904,1],3]
Pid: 0 Local rank: 1 Node rank: 1
State: 0 App_context: 0 Slot list: NULL
Data for node: Name: carl.fft Launch id: -1 Arch: 0 State: 2
Num boards: 1 Num sockets/board: 2 Num cores/socket: 2
Daemon: [[22904,0],1] Daemon launched: False
Num slots: 1 Slots in use: 1
Num slots allocated: 1 Max slots: 0
Username on node: NULL
Num procs: 1 Next node_rank: 1
Data for proc: [[22904,1],1]
Pid: 0 Local rank: 0 Node rank: 0
State: 0 App_context: 0 Slot list: NULL
Data for node: Name: charlie.fft Launch id: -1 Arch: 0 State: 2
Num boards: 1 Num sockets/board: 2 Num cores/socket: 2
Daemon: [[22904,0],2] Daemon launched: False
Num slots: 2 Slots in use: 1
Num slots allocated: 2 Max slots: 0
Username on node: NULL
Num procs: 1 Next node_rank: 1
Data for proc: [[22904,1],2]
Pid: 0 Local rank: 0 Node rank: 0
State: 0 App_context: 0 Slot list: NULL
Has anyone already encounter the same behavior ?
Is there a simple fix than not using the tight integration mode between Sge and OpenMPI ?
Eloi
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