On 11/16/2010 01:31 PM, Reuti wrote:
Hi Ralph,
Am 16.11.2010 um 15:40 schrieb Ralph Castain:
2. have SGE bind procs it launches to -all- of those cores. I believe SGE does
this automatically to constrain the procs to running on only those cores.
This is another "bug/feature" in SGE: it's a matter of discussion, whether the shepherd
should get exactly one core (in case you use more than one `qrsh`per node) for each call, or *all*
cores assigned (which we need right now, as the processes in Open MPI will be forks of orte
daemon). About such a situtation I filled an issue a long time ago and
"limit_to_one_qrsh_per_host yes/no" in the PE definition would do (this setting should
then also change the core allocation of the master process):
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1254
I believe this is indeed the crux of the issue
fantastic to share the same view.
FWIW, I think I agree too.
3. tell OMPI to --bind-to-core.
In other words, tell SGE to allocate a certain number of cores on each node,
but to bind each proc to all of them (i.e., don't bind a proc to a specific
core). I'm pretty sure that is a standard SGE option today (at least, I know it
used to be). I don't believe any patch or devel work is required (to either SGE
or OMPI).
When you use a fixed allocation_rule and a matching -binding request it will
work today. But any other case won't be distributed in the correct way.
Is it possible to not include the -binding request? If SGE is told to use a
fixed allocation_rule, and to allocate (for example) 2 cores/node, then won't
the orted see
itself bound to two specific cores on each node?
When you leave out the -binding, all jobs are allowed to run on any core.
We would then be okay as the spawned children of orted would inherit its
binding. Just don't tell mpirun to bind the processes and the threads of those
MPI procs will be able to operate across the provided cores.
Or does SGE only allocate 2 cores/node in that case (i.e., allocate, but no
-binding given), but doesn't bind the orted to any two specific cores? If so,
then that would be a problem as the orted would think itself unconstrained. If
I understand the thread correctly, you're saying that this is what happens
today - true?
Exactly. It won't apply any binding at all and orted would think of being
unlimited. I.e. limited only by the number of slots it should use thereon.
So I guess the question I have for Ralph. I thought, and this might be
mixing some of the ideas Jeff and I've been talking about, that when a
RM executes the orted with a bound set of resources (ie cores) that
orted would bind the individual processes on a subset of the bounded
resources. Is this not really the case for 1.4.X branch? I believe it
is the case for the trunk based on Jeff's refactoring.
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