Hugo, It seems you want to implement some sort of remote pessimistic logging -a la MPICH-V1- ? MPICH-V: Toward a Scalable Fault Tolerant MPI for Volatile Nodes -- George Bosilca, Aurélien Bouteiller, Franck Cappello, Samir Djilali, Gilles Fédak, Cécile Germain, Thomas Hérault, Pierre Lemarinier, Oleg Lodygensky, Frédéric Magniette, Vincent Néri, Anton Selikhov -- In proceedings of The IEEE/ACM SC2002 Conference, Baltimore USA, November 2002
In the PML-V, unlike older designs, the payload of messages and the
non-deterministic events follow a different path. The payload of messages is
logged on the sender's volatile memory, while the non-deterministic events are
sent to a stable event logger, before allowing the process to impact the state
of others (the code you have found in the previous email). The best depiction
of this distinction can be read in this paper
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/europar/BouteillerHBD11,
author = {Aurelien Bouteiller and
Thomas H{\'e}rault and
George Bosilca and
Jack J. Dongarra},
title = {Correlated Set Coordination in Fault Tolerant Message Logging
Protocols},
booktitle = {Euro-Par 2011 Parallel Processing - 17th International
Conference, Proceedings, Part II},
month = {September},
year = {2011},
pages = {51-64},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {6853},
year = {2011},
isbn = {978-3-642-23396-8},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23397-5_6},
If you intend to store both payload and message log on a remote node, I suggest
you look at the "sender-based" hooks, as this is where the message payload is
managed, and adapt from here. The event loggers can already manage a subset
only of the processes (if you launch as many EL as processes, you get a 1-1
mapping), but they never handle message payload; you'll have to add all this
yourself is it so pleases you.
Hope it clarifies.
Aurelien
Le 27 janv. 2012 à 11:19, Hugo Daniel Meyer a écrit :
> Hello Aurélien.
>
> Thanks for the clarification. Considering what you've mentioned i will have
> to make some adaptations, because to me, every single message has to be
> logged. So, a sender not only will be sending messages to the receiver, but
> also to an event logger. Is there any considerations that i've to take into
> account when modifying the code?. My initial idea is to use the el_comm with
> a group of event loggers (because every node uses a different event logger in
> my approach), and then send the messages to them as you do when using
> MPI_ANY_SOURCE.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Hugo Meyer
>
> 2012/1/27 Aurélien Bouteiller <[email protected]>
> Hugo,
>
> Your program does not have non-deterministic events. Therefore, there are no
> events to log. If you add MPI_ANY_SOURCE, you should see this code being
> called. Please contact me again if you need more help.
>
> Aurelien
>
>
> Le 27 janv. 2012 à 10:21, Hugo Daniel Meyer a écrit :
>
> > Hello @ll.
> >
> > George, i'm using some pieces of the pessimist vprotocol. I've observed
> > that when you do a send, you call vprotocol_receiver_event_flush and here
> > the macro __VPROTOCOL_RECEIVER_SEND_BUFFER is called. I've noticed that
> > here you try send a copy of the message to process 0 using the el_comm.
> > This section of code is never executed, at least in my examples. So, the
> > message is never sent to the Event Logger, am i correct with this? I think
> > that this is happening because the
> > mca_vprotocol_pessimist.event_buffer_length is always 0.
> >
> > Is there something that i've got to turn on, or i will have to modify this
> > behavior manually to connect and send messages to the EL?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Hugo Meyer
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