Re: [OMPI users] How to yield CPU more when not computing (was curious behavior during wait for broadcast: 100% cpu)

2016-12-13 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 14:24 Mon 12 Dec , Dave Love wrote: > Andreas Schäfer writes: > > >> Yes, as root, and there are N different systems to at least provide > >> unprivileged read access on HPC systems, but that's a bit different, I > >> think. > > > > LIKWI

Re: [OMPI users] How to yield CPU more when not computing (was curious behavior during wait for broadcast: 100% cpu)

2016-12-09 Thread Andreas Schäfer
LIKWID[1] uses a daemon to provide limited RW access to MSRs for applications. I wouldn't wonder if support for this was added to LIKWID by RRZE. Cheers -Andreas [1] https://github.com/RRZE-HPC/likwid --

Re: [OMPI users] single CPU vs four CPU result differences, is it normal?

2015-10-28 Thread Andreas Schäfer
ers -Andreas -- ========== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Department of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +49 9131 85-27910 PGP/GPG key via keyserver http://www.libg

Re: [OMPI users] Hang in MPI_Send

2015-04-04 Thread Andreas Schäfer
; Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2015/04/26608.php -- == Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen

Re: [OMPI users] busy waiting and oversubscriptions

2014-03-27 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 14:26 Wed 26 Mar , Ross Boylan wrote: > [Main part is at the bottom] > On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 19:28 +0100, Andreas Schäfer wrote: > > If you have a complex workflow with varying computational loads, then > > you might want to take a look at runtime systems which allow you t

Re: [OMPI users] busy waiting and oversubscriptions

2014-03-27 Thread Andreas Schäfer
Heya, On 19:21 Wed 26 Mar , Gus Correa wrote: > On 03/26/2014 05:26 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > > [Main part is at the bottom] > > On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 19:28 +0100, Andreas Schäfer wrote: > >> On 09:08 Wed 26 Mar , Ross Boylan wrote: > >>> Second,

Re: [OMPI users] busy waiting and oversubscriptions

2014-03-26 Thread Andreas Schäfer
Ross- On 09:08 Wed 26 Mar , Ross Boylan wrote: > On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 10:27 +, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2014, at 1:31 AM, Andreas Schäfer wrote: > > > > >> Even when "idle", MPI processes use all the CPU. I thought I remember

Re: [OMPI users] busy waiting and oversubscriptions

2014-03-26 Thread Andreas Schäfer
more > hardware resources to the remaining HT that is left is each core > (e.g., deeper queues). Oh, I didn't know that. That's interesting! Do you have any links with in-depth info on that? Thanks! -Andreas -- ========== Andreas

Re: [OMPI users] busy waiting and oversubscriptions

2014-03-26 Thread Andreas Schäfer
run slower with SMT ("hyperthreading"). Cheers -Andreas -- ====== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +49

Re: [OMPI users] calculation progress status

2013-10-21 Thread Andreas Schäfer
st -Andreas -- ====== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +49 9131 85-27910 PGP/GPG key via keyserver http://www.libge

Re: [OMPI users] calculation progress status

2013-10-21 Thread Andreas Schäfer
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Re: [OMPI users] Detecting Node Failure

2013-06-22 Thread Andreas Schäfer
an integrate the client-side into our library to allow users to let their simulations run through despite nodes failing. Thanks! -Andreas -- ========== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Univ

Re: [OMPI users] Detecting Node Failure

2013-06-20 Thread Andreas Schäfer
ility to dynamically connect/disconnect nodes in a robust way, then we could build fault-resilient apps on top of that. Best -Andreas -- ====== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-

Re: [OMPI users] MPI for real time analysis

2013-05-08 Thread Andreas Schäfer
ive you advice with so little information. Otherwise i might just say "use MPI and you're done". In any case this is probably not the right mailinglist to ask these questions as this list is specifically for Open MPI, not MPI in general. Best -Andreas -- ==========

Re: [OMPI users] pax glitch when building on Tsubame 2.0

2012-08-23 Thread Andreas Schäfer
Hi, On 00:05 Fri 24 Aug , Reuti wrote: > Am 23.08.2012 um 23:28 schrieb Andreas Schäfer: > > > ... > > checking for style of include used by make... GNU > > checking how to create a ustar tar archive... > > ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required. &

[OMPI users] pax glitch when building on Tsubame 2.0

2012-08-23 Thread Andreas Schäfer
t; to quit pax. Archive name > === 8< *snip* == -- ========== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +49 9131

Re: [OMPI users] OT: MPI Quiz...

2012-06-01 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 17:55 Fri 01 Jun , Rayson Ho wrote: > We posted an MPI quiz but so far no one on the Grid Engine list has > the answer that Jeff was expecting: > > http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/ That link gives me an "error 503"? -- ====

Re: [OMPI users] Uncommitted MPI_Datatype leaks memory heavily

2012-05-14 Thread Andreas Schäfer
he datatype variable is merely a handle, Open MPI has an internal data store for each user-defines datatype. Same for requests AFAIK. Best -Andreas -- ====== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-

Re: [OMPI users] Serializing objects

2012-05-01 Thread Andreas Schäfer
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Re: [OMPI users] Specifying GPU on mpi

2011-12-12 Thread Andreas Schäfer
y I'd have a look directy at the code (i.e. search for cudaSetDevice()). HTH -Andreas -- ========== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +49 9131 85

Re: [OMPI users] Specifying GPU on mpi

2011-12-12 Thread Andreas Schäfer
you using and how would you specify the GPU to use sans MPI? Best -Andreas -- ====== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +49 9131 85-27910 PGP/GPG key via

Re: [OMPI users] Specifying GPU on mpi

2011-12-12 Thread Andreas Schäfer
_ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- ========== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universitä

Re: [OMPI users] How to justify the use MPI codes on multicore systems/PCs?

2011-12-11 Thread Andreas Schäfer
> best regards, > > Amjad Ali > > > > _______ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- ==

Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI with CPU of different speed.

2011-10-05 Thread Andreas Schäfer
icates that he would like to use both: slots AND weights. -- ====== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +49 9131 85-27910 PGP/GPG key via

Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI with CPU of different speed.

2011-10-05 Thread Andreas Schäfer
us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- == Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germ

Re: [OMPI users] Low Open MPI performance on InfiniBand and shared memory?

2010-07-09 Thread Andreas Schäfer
d InfiniBand 4x QDR (active_width 4X, active_speed 10.0 Gbps), so I /should/ be able to get about twice the throughput of what I'm currently seeing. -- ========== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexan

Re: [OMPI users] Low Open MPI performance on InfiniBand and shared memory?

2010-07-09 Thread Andreas Schäfer
-pong for >256K. I'll try to find a Intel system to repeat the tests. Maybe it's AMD's different memory subsystem/cache architecture which is slowing Open MPI? Or are my systems just badly configured? Best -Andreas -- ========== A

Re: [OMPI users] Low Open MPI performance on InfiniBand and shared memory?

2010-07-09 Thread Andreas Schäfer
ind-to-core or --bind-to-socket on the cmd line? > Otherwise, the processes are running unbound, which makes a significant > difference to performance. > > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 3:15 AM, Andreas Schäfer wrote: > > > Maybe I should add that for tests I ran the benchmarks

Re: [OMPI users] Low Open MPI performance on InfiniBand and shared memory?

2010-07-09 Thread Andreas Schäfer
Maybe I should add that for tests I ran the benchmarks with two MPI processes: for InfiniBand one process per node and for shared memory both processes were located on one node. -- == Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of

[OMPI users] Low Open MPI performance on InfiniBand and shared memory?

2010-07-09 Thread Andreas Schäfer
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Re: [OMPI users] flex.exe

2010-01-22 Thread Andreas Schäfer
tion time, would it be an option to only ship the source necessary to build the flex.exe? One could then add an additional build stage during which flex.exe is compiled, just before it is required. Just my $0.02 -Andreas -- ====== Andreas Schäfe

Re: [OMPI users] Object Send Doubt

2008-07-13 Thread Andreas Schäfer
(the vector). Since datatypes can only be used for objects with fixed size (and layout), you can't define an MPI_Datatype for this. I'd suggest you to use Boost.MPI in this case (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/mpi.html) Cheers -Andreas -- ==

Re: [OMPI users] Object Send Doubt

2008-07-12 Thread Andreas Schäfer
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Re: [OMPI users] help me please, about Open MPI

2008-06-16 Thread Andreas Schäfer
ould not need to delete, just add in front of MPICH. > Would you please help me with that ? I utterly hope I just did. Most sincerely yours ;-) -Andreas -- ======== Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universit

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Schäfer
ode (www.transcoding.org) and would suggest MPEG output (MPEG 4, or MPEG 2 if you really must). But that's just what I prefer. Cheers -Andi -- Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schil

Re: [OMPI users] GCC extendability to OpenMPI Specification

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Schäfer
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Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-05-30 Thread Andreas Schäfer
fer how-to pages for this, as you can copy&paste the commands directly into your own shell. > - ...other [low-budget] suggestions? Maybe an a tad higher audio bitrate. And some people don't like the .mov format, but that isn't really important. Thanks! -Andreas -- ===

Re: [OMPI users] Help: Program Terminated

2008-05-30 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 12:28 Fri 30 May , Lee Amy wrote: > 2008/5/29 Andreas Schäfer : > Thank you very much. If I do a shorter job it seems run well. And the job > dosen't repeatedly fail at the same time, but it will fail at this error > messages. Anyway, I'm not using a scheduling syst

Re: [OMPI users] Help: Program Terminated

2008-05-29 Thread Andreas Schäfer
nds like your application is terminated from an external instance, maybe because your job exceeded the wall clock time limit of your scheduling system. Does the job repeatedly fail at the same time? Do shorter jobs finish successfully? Just my 0.02 Euros (-8 Cheers -Andreas -- =====

Re: [OMPI users] ROMIO of OpenMPI

2008-05-18 Thread Andreas Schäfer
f you want to. Cheers! -Andi -- ======== Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany PGP/GPG key via keyserver I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net (\___/) (+'.'+) (")_(") This

Re: [OMPI users] Openmpi (VASP): Signal code: Address not mapped (1)

2008-04-24 Thread Andreas Schäfer
a guess that it's not OMPI's fault but VASP's, since the segfault happens in one of its functions. Maybe you should have a look there. HTH -Andi -- Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-

Re: [OMPI users] Fwd: Problem with sending vectors

2008-04-12 Thread Andreas Schäfer
cannot be MPI data types." [1] AFAIK, boost::mpi will thus buffer all vectors to be sent. This might not be as efficient as just feeding it a raw pointer and the number of elements. Cheers! -Andreas [1] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/mpi/tutorial.html#mpi.point_to_point -- ===

Re: [OMPI users] Fwd: Problem with sending vectors

2008-04-07 Thread Andreas Schäfer
#x27;t help you if you don't provide us with self-sufficient code; small excerpts mixed with comments won't cut it in most cases. Cheers -Andreas -- ==== Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,

Re: [OMPI users] Problem with sending vectors

2008-04-06 Thread Andreas Schäfer
the error (and still constitutes a valid/complete MPI program). Cheers! -Andreas -- Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germ

Re: [OMPI users] [gent...@gmx.de: Re: 2 questions about Open MPI]

2008-03-25 Thread Andreas Schäfer
? You could do so, > king regards, oeter your majesty Oeter ;-) Cheers -Andreas -- ============ Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany PGP/GPG key via keyserver I'm a bright... htt

[OMPI users] [gent...@gmx.de: Re: 2 questions about Open MPI]

2008-03-25 Thread Andreas Schäfer
ichever creative and colorful way you like. Cheers! -Andreas -- Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany PGP/GPG key via keyserver I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net (\___/) (+

Re: [OMPI users] Begginers question: why does this program hangs?

2008-03-18 Thread Andreas Schäfer
rrect MPI apps to avoid this optimization -- a > proper fix is coming in the v1.3 series. Yo, I've just tried it with the current SVN and couldn't reproduce the deadlock. Nice! Cheers -Andreas -- ============ Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacom

Re: [OMPI users] Begginers question: why does this program hangs?

2008-03-18 Thread Andreas Schäfer
b64/libmpi.so.0 #3 0x0040ca04 in MPI::Comm::Send () #4 0x00409700 in main () Anyone got a clue? -- ======== Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany PGP/GPG key via keyserv

Re: [OMPI users] Begginers question: why does this program hangs?

2008-03-18 Thread Andreas Schäfer
y much! > > Giovani > > > > > > > > __ > Fale com seus amigos de graça com o novo Yahoo! Messenger > http://br.messenger.yahoo.com/ > ___ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > ht

Re: [OMPI users] Problems Broadcasting/Scattering Data

2008-01-08 Thread Andreas Schäfer
27;re really just one-dimensional in memory. Cheers -Andreas -- Andreas Schäfer Cluster and Metacomputing Working Group Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany PGP/GPG key via keyserver I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net

Re: [OMPI users] Problems Broadcasting/Scattering Data

2008-01-08 Thread Andreas Schäfer
node, which is 0 in your case. Thus, the other nodes cannot produce the same output as node 0. I've attached my reworked version (including some initialization code for clarity). If you want me again to debug a program of yours, send a floppy along with a pizza Hawai (cartwheel size) to:

Re: [OMPI users] Suggestions needed for parallelisation of sorting algorithms (quicksort)

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Schäfer
read a few > papers about it - the basic approach would be to > parallel the divide and conquer part - which would > result in ALOT of network messages... As already said, please read Powers' paper from above. I could imagine that even though this results in _many_ messages, the algor