This if for MPICH's mpirun not OpenMPI's mpi run. You will need to
direct questions to the MPICH team and mailing list.
Also be aware that if that is for MPICH-1.x they nolonger develop it
and should move to MPICH-2.x Or switch to another MPI stack like
OpenMPI etc.
Brock Palen
www.umich.edu/~brockp
Center for Advanced Computing
bro...@umich.edu
(734)936-1985
On Apr 6, 2008, at 2:50 PM, brian janus wrote:
I'm new here so forgive me if I ask any dumb questions. But the
first question I have concerns the mpirun script below.
My question is, what does the SYNCLOC=/bin/sync line for in the
script below do, and what complications could arise (if any), from
disabling this option by commenting out the line like #SYNCLOC=/bin/
sync. In some code we are running, we have found that disabling
this option allows high priority jobs to complete in only a couple
of seconds, whereas before they would take several minutes.
What does SYNCLOC do, and if its disabled, what kind of problems
might that cause?
#! /bin/sh
# MPIRUN for MPICH
# (Don't change the above line - we use it to identify MPICH mpirun as
# opposed to others (e.g., SGI's mpirun)
#
# This script tries to start jobs on whatever kind of machine
you're on.
# Strategy - This program is built with a default device it uses in
# certain ways. The user can override this default from the command
line.
#
# This sh script is designed to use other scripts to provide the
commands
# to run each system, using the . filename.sh mechanism
#
# Debuggers should be handled by running
# mpirun.db.<debugger_name>
# e.g., mpirun.db.gdb or mpirun.db.xxgdb.
# This will allow users to add there own debuggers
# (with -debug=<debugger_name>)
#
# Set default variables
AUTOMOUNTFIX="sed -e s@/tmp_mnt/@/@g"
DEFAULT_DEVICE=ch_p4
RSHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/ssh"
SYNCLOC=/bin/sync # <---------- WE DISABLED THIS WITH A #COMMENT#
CC="cc"
COMM=
GLOBUSDIR=@GLOBUSDIR@
CLINKER="cc"
prefix=/cluster/cairo/software/mpich-1.2.5.2
bindir=/cluster/cairo/software/mpich-1.2.5.2/bin
# This value for datadir is the default value setup by configure
datadir=/cluster/cairo/software/mpich-1.2.5.2/share
DEFAULT_MACHINE=ch_p4
DEFAULT_ARCH=LINUX
# Derived variables
MPIRUN_BIN=$bindir
MPIRUN_HOME=$MPIRUN_BIN
MPIVERSION="1.2.5 (release) of : 2003/01/13 16:21:53"
#set verbose
#
# Local routines
#
# End of routine
#
#
# Special, system specific values
#
# polling_mode is for systems that can select between polling and
# interrupt-driven operation. Currently, only IBM POE is so supported
# (TMC CMMD has some support for this choice of mode)
polling_mode=1
# Parse command line arguments
# The ultimate goal is to determine what kind of parallel machine this
# is we are running on. Then we know how to start jobs...
#
# Process common arguments (currently does ALL, but should pass
unrecognized
# ones to called files)
#
hasprinthelp=1
. $MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.args
argsset=1
#
# Jump to the correct code for the device (by pseudo machine)
#
mpirun_version=""
case $machine in
ch_cmmd)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.ch_cmmd
;;
ibmspx|ch_eui|ch_mpl)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.ch_mpl
;;
anlspx)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.anlspx
;;
ch_meiko|meiko)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.meiko
;;
cray_t3d|t3d)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.t3d
;;
ch_nc)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.ch_nc
;;
paragon|ch_nx|nx)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.paragon
;;
inteldelta)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.delta
;;
i860|ipsc860)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.i860
;;
p4|ch_p4|sgi_mp)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.ch_p4
;;
gm|ch_gm|myrinet)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.ch_gm
;;
execer)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.execer
;;
ch_shmem|ch_spp|smp|convex_spp)
# sgi_mp is reserved for the p4 version
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.ch_shmem
;;
ksr|symm_ptx)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.p4shmem
;;
ch_tcp|tcp)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.ch_tcp
;;
globus)
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.globus
;;
*)
#
# This allows us to add a device without changing the base mpirun
# code
if [ -x $MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.$device ] ; then
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.$device
elif [ -x $MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.$default_device ] ; then
mpirun_version=$MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.$default_device
device=$default_device
else
echo "Cannot find MPIRUN machine file for machine $machine"
echo "and architecture $arch ."
if [ -n "$device" ] ; then
echo "(Looking for $MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.$device)"
else
echo "(No device specified.)"
fi
# . $MPIRUN_HOME/mpirun.default
exit 1
fi
;;
esac
exitstatus=1
if [ -n "$mpirun_version" ] ; then
if [ -x $mpirun_version ] ; then
# The mpirun script *must* set exitstatus (or exit itself)
. $mpirun_version
else
echo "$mpirun_version is not available."
exit 1
fi
else
echo "No mpirun script for this configuration!"
exit 1
fi
exit $exitstatus
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