Re: [OMPI users] Preloading the libraries "--preload-files" Effect

2020-04-21 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet via users
Kihang Youn, The --preload-files is used to preload files in a sense that files are copied to the remote hosts before the MPI application is started. If you are using the released versions of Open MPI, you can try the fork_agent. Basically, mpirun --mca orte_fork_agent /.../wrapper a.out will hav

[OMPI users] Preloading the libraries "--preload-files" Effect

2020-04-21 Thread Kihang Youn via users
Hi, everyone. I'd like to know about the OpenMPI mpirun runtime option "--preload-files". Is the function of this option used to put the library on Cache (or RAM?) at startup and to gain benefits from multiple calls? Our team is looking for a way to load the library used by programs running th

Re: [OMPI users] OMPI v2.1.5 with Slurm

2020-04-21 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet via users
Levi, as a workaround, have you tried using mpirun instead of direct launch (e.g. srun) ? Note you are using pmix 1.2.5, so you likely want to srun --mpi=pmix_v1 Also, as reported by the logs 1. [nodeA:12838] OPAL ERROR: Error in file pmix3x_client.c at line 112 there is something fishy

[OMPI users] OMPI v2.1.5 with Slurm

2020-04-21 Thread Levi D Davis via users
Hello, I have been having a heck of a time getting an old version of OMPI (v2.1) with slurm (v19). I need it to work with an application that I don't have control of recompiling with newer OMPI versions. I think it is an OMPI or PMIX compiling issue because the newer versions (OMPI v3 and v4,

[OMPI users] opal_path_nfs freeze

2020-04-21 Thread Patrick Bégou via users
Hi OpenMPI maintainers, I have temporary access to servers with AMD Epyc processors running RHEL7. I'm trying to deploy OpenMPI with several setup but each time "make check" fails on *opal_path_nfs*. This test freeze for ever consuming no cpu resources. After nearly one hour I have killed the p