Tena
Earlier today I was able to successfully get a
submission host[ec2 instance 0] <-> slave [ec2 instance 1]
configuration to work. I haven't fully digested your "this must be an
ssh ... " thread. But here are few things that I found it
necessary to do, in order to get things working.
(i) First and foremost is the ec2 security group. The 'default' group
will probably not work. ompi randomly chooses ports. I think that some
ranges are excluded, but I was too lazy to find out, so I just
opened/everything/ up, creating a group that includes the line
Connection Method Protocol From port To port Source (IP or group)
All tcp 0
65535 0.0.0.0/0
Of course this could be insecure, depending how your instance is
configured. Since I have no services running except ssh, I'm don't
foresee any problems.
(ii) Since you have ssh working, this probably is irrelevant: by default
when ompi uses ssh, it attempts to log into the remote host using the
local user name, and will use the rsa file $USER/.ssh/id_rsa. However,
you can explicitly set these by specifying the ssh command in an MCA
param, e.g.
OMPI_MCA_plm_rsh_agent="ssh -i rsa_file -l ec2-user"; export
OMPI_MCA_plm_rsh_agent
And the rsa file must have mode 600.
(iii) To supress the ssh authenticity test, I added
UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
StrictHostKeyChecking no
to /etc/ssh/ssh_config
Hope one of these helps.
bw
On 2/17/11 6:11 PM, Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi Barnet,
>
> > If I understand you correctly, the configuration you're trying to use Is
> > submission host[ec2 instance 0] <-> slave [ec2 instance 1]
>
> Correct.
>
> > but have you tried using the public/external uri?
>
> I just did. It didn’t make a bit of difference.
> I also tried IP addresses and that didn’t get me anywhere either.
>
> Jeff earlier gave me steps to follow, which I am about to embark on.
> May I suggest you follow a thread with heading “This must be ssh
> problem, but I can't figure out what it is...”
>
> Regards,
>
> Tena
>
>
> On 2/17/11 10:05 AM, "Barnet Wagman" <b...@norbl.com> wrote:
>
> Tena,
>
> If I understand you correctly, the configuration you're trying to
> use is
>
>
> submission host[ec2 instance 0] <-> slave [ec2 instance 1]
>
>
> I haven't tried this yet (although I will in the next few days).
>
> I've tried
>
>
> (a) submission host[non-ec2 system with static IP, direct net
> connection] <-> slave [ec2 instance 1]
> (b) submission host[non-ec2 system with local static IP,
> connected to net via router] <-> slave [ec2 instance 1]
>
>
> (a) works, (b) does not, presumably because opmpi does not support
> NAT (see Jeff Squyres comments, later in the thread).
>
>
> I notice that you're using the 'internal' uri to specify
> hostnames. This makes sense in principle, but have you tried using
> the public/external uri? Presumably opmpi has to lookup these
> hostnames. I don't know how that's done, but trying to lookup the
> internal uri might be a problem.
>
> If you try this (or anything else), I'd appreciate it if you'd
> post your results.
>
> bw
>
>
> On 2/17/11 4:08 AM, Tena Sakai wrote:
>
> Re: [OMPI users] How are IP addresses determined? Hi Barnet,
>
> Allow me to interject.
> Are you saying that you run master on your local machine and
> launching openMPI process on EC2? You are saying that 1) tcp
> port tcp://192.168.1.101:35272 is on your local system and 2)
> the ec2 instance is trying to connect your local machine’s
> port 35272 , and hanging. Is that correct?
>
> I have just a bit different situation. I am running 2 ec2
> instances and trying to run mpirun on both instances. My ssh
> debug output looks quite similar to yours and mpirun behavior
> also very similar. Here’s what I captured:
> Sending command: orted --daemonize -mca ess env -mca
> orte_ess_jobid 1025769472 -mca orte_ess_vpid 1 -mca
> orte_ess_num_procs 2 --hnp-uri
> "1025769472.0;tcp://10.118.23.4:60941"
> And here’s what I did on the instance from which I issued mpirun:
> [tsakai@ip-10-118-23-4 ~]$ nslookup `hostname`
> Server: 172.16.0.23
> Address: 172.16.0.23#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name: ip-10-118-23-4.ec2.internal
> Address: 10.118.23.4
>
> So that tcp port does belong to this instance. Furthermore,
> it cannot come into it. No router (which may perform address
> translation?) is involved and it appears the same thing as
> what you describe is happening. Incidentally, here’s how I
> ran mpirun:
> [tsakai@ip-10-118-23-4 ~]$ mpirun -app app.ac
> With app.ac file:
> [tsakai@ip-10-118-23-4 ~]$ cat app.ac
> -H ip-10-118-23-4.ec2.internal -np 1 /bin/hostname
> -H ip-10-118-23-4.ec2.internal -np 1 /bin/hostname
> -H ip-10-118-18-172.ec2.internal -np 1 /bin/hostname
> -H ip-10-118-18-172.ec2.internal -np 1 /bin/hostname
>
> The first two lines spawns /bin/hostname on this instance
> (ip-10-118-23-4.ec2.internal) and the bottom 2 lines on the
> remote instance.
> Here’s the security group used for these instances:
>
> connetion protocol from to source
> ------------- ----------- ------ -----
> ------------
> *SSH *tcp 22 22 0.0.0.0/0
>
> Am I making sense?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tena
>
>
>
>
> On 2/16/11 8:56 PM, "Barnet Wagman" <b...@norbl.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I've run into a problem involving accessing a remote
> host via a router and I think need to understand how opmpi
> determines ip addresses. If there's anything posted on
> this subject, please point me to it.
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> I've installed opmpi (1.4.3) on a remote system (an
> Amazon ec2 instance). If the local system I'm working on
> has a static ip address (and a direct connection to the
> internet), there's no problem. But if the local system
> accesses the internet through a router (which itself gets
> it's ip via dhcp), a call to runmpi command hangs.
>
> This is not firewall problem - I've disabled the
> firewalls on all the system that are involved (and the
> router).
>
> It is also not an ssh problem. The ssh connection is
> being made and it appears that the application has been
> launched on the remote system. After the runmpi command
> has been launched locally, a ps on the remote system shows
> a process
>
>
>
> orted --daemonize -mca ess env -mca orte_ess_jobid
> 1187643392 -mca orte_ess_vpid 1 -mca
> orte_ess_num_procs 2 --hnp-uri
> 1187643392.0;tcp://192.168.1.101:35272
>
>
>
>
> While I don't really understand the orted process, I
> assume this indicates that a command to execute an app has
> been received and that opmpi is trying to run it.
>
> I suspect that the problem is related to the '--hnp-uri
> ... tcp://192.168.1.101' argument. 192.168.1.101 is the
> address of my local system on my local network (attached
> to the router), which of course is not accessible over the
> net. It appears that opmpi is transmitting the local
> (static) ip address to the remote host.
>
> It would help to know how opmpi determines and
> distributes IP addresses. And if there's any way to
> control this.
>
> Any thoughts on dealing with this would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> bw
>
>
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