Sorry, had to run some errands. On Feb 26, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Saliya Ekanayake <esal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to bind to cores of multiple sockets? Say I have a machine > with 2 sockets each with 4 cores and if I run 8 threads with 1 proc can I > utilize all 8 cores for 8 threads? In that scenario, you won't get any benefit from binding as we only bind at the proc level (and binding to the entire node does nothing). You might want to bind your threads, however, as otherwise the threads will not necessarily execute local to any memory they malloc. > > Thank you for speedy replies > > Saliya > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Saliya Ekanayake <esal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a followup question on this. In our application we have parallel for >> loops similar to OMP parallel for. I noticed that in order to gain speedup >> with threads I've to set --bind-to none, otherwise multiple threads will >> bind to same core giving no increase in performance. For example, I get >> following (attached) performance for a simple 3point stencil computation run >> with T threads on 1 MPI process on 1 node (Tx1x1). >> >> My understanding is even when there are multiple procs per node we should >> use --bind-to none in order to get performance with threads. Is this >> correct? Also, what's the disadvantage of not using --bind-to core? > > Your best performance with threads comes when you bind each process to > multiple cores. Binding helps performance by ensuring your memory is always > local, and provides some optimized scheduling benefits. You can bind to > multiple cores by adding the qualifier "pe=N" to your mapping definition, > like this: > > mpirun --map-by socket:pe=4 .... > > The above example will map processes by socket, and bind each process to 4 > cores. > > HTH > Ralph > >> >> Thank you, >> Saliya >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Saliya Ekanayake <esal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thank you Ralph, I'll check this. >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: >> It means that OMPI didn't get built against libnuma, and so we can't ensure >> that memory is being bound local to the proc binding. Check to see if >> numactl and numactl-devel are installed, or you can turn off the warning >> using "-mca hwloc_base_mem_bind_failure_action silent" >> >> >> On Feb 25, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Saliya Ekanayake <esal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I tried to run an MPI Java program with --bind-to core. I receive the >>> following warning and wonder how to fix this. >>> >>> >>> WARNING: a request was made to bind a process. While the system >>> supports binding the process itself, at least one node does NOT >>> support binding memory to the process location. >>> >>> Node: 192.168.0.19 >>> >>> This is a warning only; your job will continue, though performance may >>> be degraded. >>> >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Saliya >>> >>> -- >>> Saliya Ekanayake esal...@gmail.com >>> Cell 812-391-4914 Home 812-961-6383 >>> http://saliya.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> us...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> >> >> -- >> Saliya Ekanayake esal...@gmail.com >> Cell 812-391-4914 Home 812-961-6383 >> http://saliya.org >> >> >> >> -- >> Saliya Ekanayake esal...@gmail.com >> Cell 812-391-4914 Home 812-961-6383 >> http://saliya.org >> <3pointstencil.png>_______________________________________________ >> >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > > -- > Saliya Ekanayake esal...@gmail.com > Cell 812-391-4914 Home 812-961-6383 > http://saliya.org > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
