-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hiya Ralph,
On 07/05/14 14:49, Ralph Castain wrote: > I should have looked closer to see the numbers you posted, Chris - > those include time for MPI wireup. So what you are seeing is that > mpirun is much more efficient at exchanging the MPI endpoint info > than PMI. I suspect that PMI2 is not much better as the primary > reason for the difference is that mpriun sends blobs, while PMI > requires that everything be encoded into strings and sent in little > pieces. > > Hence, mpirun can exchange the endpoint info (the dreaded "modex" > operation) much faster, and MPI_Init completes faster. Rest of the > computation should be the same, so long compute apps will see the > difference narrow considerably. Unfortunately it looks like I had an enthusiastic cleanup at some point and so I cannot find the out files from those runs at the moment, but I did find some comparisons from around that time. This first pair are comparing running NAMD with OMPI 1.7.3a1r29103 run with mpirun and srun successively from inside the same Slurm job. mpirun namd2 macpf.conf srun --mpi=pmi2 namd2 macpf.conf Firstly the mpirun output (grep'ing the interesting bits): Charm++> Running on MPI version: 2.1 Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0959179 s/step 0.555081 days/ns 1055.19 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0929002 s/step 0.537617 days/ns 1055.19 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0727373 s/step 0.420933 days/ns 1055.19 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0779532 s/step 0.451118 days/ns 1055.19 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0785246 s/step 0.454425 days/ns 1055.19 MB memory WallClock: 1403.388550 CPUTime: 1403.388550 Memory: 1119.085938 MB Now the srun output: Charm++> Running on MPI version: 2.1 Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0906865 s/step 0.524806 days/ns 1036.75 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0874809 s/step 0.506255 days/ns 1036.75 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0746328 s/step 0.431903 days/ns 1036.75 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0726161 s/step 0.420232 days/ns 1036.75 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 512 CPUs 0.0710574 s/step 0.411212 days/ns 1036.75 MB memory WallClock: 1230.784424 CPUTime: 1230.784424 Memory: 1100.648438 MB The next two pairs are first launched using mpirun from 1.6.x and then with srun from 1.7.3a1r29103. Again each pair inside the same Slurm job with the same inputs. First pair mpirun: Charm++> Running on MPI version: 2.1 Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.410424 s/step 2.37514 days/ns 909.57 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.392106 s/step 2.26913 days/ns 909.57 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.313136 s/step 1.81213 days/ns 909.57 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.316792 s/step 1.83329 days/ns 909.57 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.313867 s/step 1.81636 days/ns 909.57 MB memory WallClock: 8341.524414 CPUTime: 8341.524414 Memory: 975.015625 MB First pair srun: Charm++> Running on MPI version: 2.1 Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.341967 s/step 1.97897 days/ns 903.883 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.339644 s/step 1.96553 days/ns 903.883 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.284424 s/step 1.64597 days/ns 903.883 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.28115 s/step 1.62702 days/ns 903.883 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.279536 s/step 1.61769 days/ns 903.883 MB memory WallClock: 7476.643555 CPUTime: 7476.643555 Memory: 968.867188 MB Second pair mpirun: Charm++> Running on MPI version: 2.1 Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.366327 s/step 2.11995 days/ns 939.527 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.359805 s/step 2.0822 days/ns 939.527 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.292342 s/step 1.69179 days/ns 939.527 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.293499 s/step 1.69849 days/ns 939.527 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.292355 s/step 1.69187 days/ns 939.527 MB memory WallClock: 7842.831543 CPUTime: 7842.831543 Memory: 1004.050781 MB Second pair srun: Charm++> Running on MPI version: 2.1 Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.347864 s/step 2.0131 days/ns 904.91 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.346367 s/step 2.00444 days/ns 904.91 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.29007 s/step 1.67865 days/ns 904.91 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.279447 s/step 1.61717 days/ns 904.91 MB memory Info: Benchmark time: 64 CPUs 0.280824 s/step 1.62514 days/ns 904.91 MB memory WallClock: 7522.677246 CPUTime: 7522.677246 Memory: 969.433594 MB So to me it looks like (for NAMD on our system at least) that PMI2 does seem to give better scalability. All the best! Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlNp28UACgkQO2KABBYQAh8hagCfewbbxUR6grg5R40GrwjtIZV0 1KYAn2uX0yKLdOEbkHARKouzwFilaTTD =A/Yw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
