I hope I understand the question properly.
The "truncate error" means that the receive buffer provided by the user
was too small to receive the designated message. That's an error in
the user code.
You're asking about some buffering sizes within the MPI
implementation. We can talk about that, but it probably first makes
sense to clarify what MPI is doing. If a sender posts a large send and
the receiver has not posted a reply, the MPI implementation is not
required to move any data. In particular, most MPI implementations
will use a "rendezvous" protocol in which the sender sends a short
portion and then waits for an acknowledgement from the receiver that it
is ready to receive the message (and knows into which user buffer to
place the received data). This protocol is used so that the MPI
implementation does not have to buffer internally arbitrarily large
messages.
So, if you post a large send but no receive, the MPI implementation is
probably buffering very little data. The message won't advance until
the receive has been posted. This means that a blocking MPI_Send will
wait and a nonblocking MPI_Isend will return without having done much.
Jack Bryan wrote:
Hi,
thanks for the program from Jody.
David indicated the question that I want to ask.
But, Jody's approach is ok when the MPI built-in buffer size is
large enough to hold the
message such as 100kB in the buffer.
In
asynchronous communication, when the sender posts a mpi_isend, the
message is put in
a
buffer provided by the MPI.
At
this point, the receiver may still not post its corresponding
mpi_irecv. So, the buffer size is
important
here.
Without
knowing the buffer size, I may get " truncate error " on Open MPI.
How to know the size of the buffer automatically
created by Open MPI in the background ?
Any
help is appreciated.
Jack,
July 10 2010
From: solarbik...@gmail.com
List-Post: users@lists.open-mpi.org
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:46:12 -0700
To: us...@open-mpi.org
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI how large its buffer size ?
I believe his question is regarding when under non-blocking send/recv,
how does MPI know how much memory to allocate to receive the message,
since the size is determined AFTER the irecv is posted. So if the send
post isend, but the receiver hasn't post irecv, what would the MPI do
with the message.
I believe MPI would automatically create a buffer in the background to
store the message.
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:55 PM, jody <jody....@gmail.com>
wrote:
Perhaps
i misunderstand your question...
Generally, it is the user's job to provide the buffers both to send and
receive.
If you call MPI_Recv, you must pass a buffer that is large enough to
hold the data sent by the
corresponding MPI_Send. I.e., if you know your sender will send
messages of 100kB,
then you must provide a buffer of size 100kB to the receiver.
If the message size is unknown at compile time, you may have to send
two messages:
first an integer which tells the receiver how large a buffer it has to
allocate, and then
the actual message (which then nicely fits into the freshly allocated
buffer)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include "mpi.h"
#define SENDER 1
#define RECEIVER 0
#define TAG_LEN 77
#define TAG_DATA 78
#define MAX_MESSAGE 16
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int num_procs;
int rank;
int *send_buf;
int *recv_buf;
int send_message_size;
int recv_message_size;
MPI_Status st;
int i;
/* initialize random numbers */
srand(time(NULL));
MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &num_procs);
MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);
if (rank == RECEIVER) {
/* the receiver */
/* wait for message length */
MPI_Recv(&recv_message_size, 1, MPI_INT, SENDER, TAG_LEN,
MPI_COMM_WORLD, &st);
/* create a buffer of the required size */
recv_buf = (int*) malloc(recv_message_size*sizeof(int));
/* get data */
MPI_Recv(recv_buf, recv_message_size, MPI_INT, SENDER,
TAG_DATA, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &st);
printf("Receiver got %d integers:", recv_message_size);
for (i = 0; i < recv_message_size; i++) {
printf(" %d", recv_buf[i]);
}
printf("\n");
/* clean up */
free(recv_buf);
} else if (rank == SENDER) {
/* the sender */
/* random message size */
send_message_size =
(int)((1.0*MAX_MESSAGE*rand())/(1.0*RAND_MAX));
/* create a buffer of the required size */
send_buf = (int*) malloc(send_message_size*sizeof(int));
/* create random message */
for (i = 0; i < send_message_size; i++) {
send_buf[i] = rand();
}
printf("Sender has %d integers:", send_message_size);
for (i = 0; i < send_message_size; i++) {
printf(" %d", send_buf[i]);
}
printf("\n");
/* send message size to receiver */
MPI_Send(&send_message_size, 1, MPI_INT, RECEIVER, TAG_LEN,
MPI_COMM_WORLD);
/* now send messagge */
MPI_Send(send_buf, send_message_size, MPI_INT, RECEIVER,
TAG_DATA, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
/* clean up */
free(send_buf);
}
MPI_Finalize();
}
I hope this helps
Jody
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Jack Bryan < dtustud...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear All:
> How to find the buffer size of OpenMPI ?
> I need to transfer large data between nodes on a cluster with
OpenMPI 1.3.4.
> Many nodes need to send data to the same node .
> Workers use mpi_isend, the receiver node use mpi_irecv.
> because they are non-blocking, the messages are stored in buffers
of
> senders.
> And then, the receiver collect messages from its buffer.
> If the receiver's buffer is too small, there will be truncate
error.
> Any help is appreciated.
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