Hmmm...well, what that indicates is that your application program is losing
the connection to orterun, but that orterun is still alive and kicking (it
is alive enough to send the [0,0,1] daemon a message ordering it to exit).
So the question is: why is your application program dropping the connection?
I haven't tried doing embedded orterun commands, so there could be a
conflict there that causes the OOB connection to drop. Best guess is that
there is confusion over which orterun it is supposed to connect to. I can
give it a try and see - this may not be a mode we can support.
Alternatively, you could start a persistent daemon and then just allow both
orterun instances to report to it. Our method for doing that isn't as
convenient as we want it to be, and hope to soon have it, but it does work.
What you have to do is:
1. to start the persistent daemon, type:
"orted --seed --persistent --scope public --universe foo"
where foo can be whatever name you like.
2. when you execute your application, use:
orterun -np 1 --universe foo python ./test.py
where the "foo" matches the name given above.
3. in your os.system command, you'll need that same "--universe foo" option
That may solve the problem (let me know if it does). Meantime, I'll take a
look at the embedded approach without the persistent daemon...may take me
awhile as I'm in the middle of something, but I will try to get to it
shortly.
Ralph
On 7/11/07 1:40 PM, "Lev Gelb" <g...@wuchem.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
> OK, I've added the debug flags - when I add them to the
> os.system instance of orterun, there is no additional input,
> but when I add them to the orterun instance controlling the
> python program, I get the following:
>
>> orterun -np 1 --debug-daemons -mca odls_base_verbose 1 python ./test.py
> Daemon [0,0,1] checking in as pid 18054 on host druid.wustl.edu
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] [0,0,1] orted: received launch callback
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] odls: setting up launch for job 1
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] odls: overriding oversubscription
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] odls: oversubscribed set to false want_processor
> set to true
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] odls: preparing to launch child [0, 1, 0]
> Pypar (version 1.9.3) initialised MPI OK with 1 processors
> [druid.wustl.edu:18057] OOB: Connection to HNP lost
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] odls: child process terminated
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] odls: child process [0,1,0] terminated normally
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] [0,0,1] orted_recv_pls: received message from
> [0,0,0]
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] [0,0,1] orted_recv_pls: received exit
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] [0,0,1] odls_kill_local_proc: working on job -1
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] [0,0,1] odls_kill_local_proc: checking child
> process [0,1,0]
> [druid.wustl.edu:18054] [0,0,1] odls_kill_local_proc: child is not alive
>
> (the Pypar output is from loading that module; the next thing in
> the code is the os.system call to start orterun with 2 processors.)
>
> Also, there is absolutely no output from the second orterun-launched
> program (even the first line does not execute.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lev
>
>
>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:26:22 -0600
>> From: Ralph H Castain <r...@lanl.gov>
>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Recursive use of "orterun"
>> To: "Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org>" <us...@open-mpi.org>
>> Message-ID: <c2ba8afe.9e64%...@lanl.gov>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> I'm unaware of any issues that would cause it to fail just because it is
>> being run via that interface.
>>
>> The error message is telling us that the procs got launched, but then
>> orterun went away unexpectedly. Are you seeing your procs complete? We do
>> sometimes see that message due to a race condition between the daemons
>> spawned to support the application procs and orterun itself (see other
>> recent notes in this forum).
>>
>> If your procs are not completing, then it would mean that either the
>> connecting fabric is failing for some reason, or orterun is terminating
>> early. If you could add --debug-daemons -mca odls_base_verbose 1 to the
>> os.system command, the output from that might help us understand why it is
>> failing.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/11/07 10:49 AM, "Lev Gelb" <g...@wuchem.wustl.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> I'm trying to port an application to use OpenMPI, and running
>>> into a problem. The program (written in Python, parallelized
>>> using either of "pypar" or "pyMPI") itself invokes "mpirun"
>>> in order to manage external, parallel processes, via something like:
>>>
>>> orterun -np 2 python myapp.py
>>>
>>> where myapp.py contains:
>>>
>>> os.system('orterun -np 2 nwchem.x nwchem.inp > nwchem.out')
>>>
>>> I have this working under both LAM-MPI and MPICH on a variety
>>> of different machines. However, with OpenMPI, all I get is an
>>> immediate return from the system call and the error:
>>>
>>> "OOB: Connection to HNP lost"
>>>
>>> I have verified that the command passed to os.system is correct,
>>> and even that it runs correctly if "myapp.py" doesn't invoke any
>>> MPI calls of its own.
>>>
>>> I'm testing openMPI on a single box, so there's no machinefile-stuff
>>> currently
>>> active. The system is running Fedora Core 6 x86-64, I'm using the latest
>>> openmpi-1.2.3-1.src.rpm rebuilt on the machine in question,
>>> I can provide additional configuration details if necessary.
>>>
>>> Thanks, in advance, for any help or advice,
>>>
>>> Lev
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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