To close the thread here… I got the following information:
Looking at SLURM_CPU_BIND is the right idea, but there are quite a few more options. It misses map_cpu, rank, plus the NUMA-based options: rank_ldom, map_ldom, and mask_ldom. See the srun man pages for documentation. From: Riebs, Andy Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 1:53 PM To: users@lists.open-mpi.org Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Slurm binding not propagated to MPI jobs Hi Ralph, I haven't played around in this code, so I'll flip the question over to the Slurm list, and report back here when I learn anything. Cheers Andy On 10/27/2016 01:44 PM, r...@open-mpi.org<mailto:r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: Sigh - of course it wouldn’t be simple :-( All right, let’s suppose we look for SLURM_CPU_BIND: * if it includes the word “none”, then we know the user specified that they don’t want us to bind * if it includes the word mask_cpu, then we have to check the value of that option. * If it is all F’s, then they didn’t specify a binding and we should do our thing. * If it is anything else, then we assume they _did_ specify a binding, and we leave it alone Would that make sense? Is there anything else that could be in that envar which would trip us up? On Oct 27, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Andy Riebs <andy.ri...@hpe.com<mailto:andy.ri...@hpe.com>> wrote: Yes, they still exist: $ srun --ntasks-per-node=2 -N1 env | grep BIND | sort -u SLURM_CPU_BIND_LIST=0xFFFF SLURM_CPU_BIND=quiet,mask_cpu:0xFFFF SLURM_CPU_BIND_TYPE=mask_cpu: SLURM_CPU_BIND_VERBOSE=quiet Here are the relevant Slurm configuration options that could conceivably change the behavior from system to system: SelectType = select/cons_res SelectTypeParameters = CR_CPU On 10/27/2016 01:17 PM, r...@open-mpi.org<mailto:r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: And if there is no --cpu_bind on the cmd line? Do these not exist? On Oct 27, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Andy Riebs <andy.ri...@hpe.com<mailto:andy.ri...@hpe.com>> wrote: Hi Ralph, I think I've found the magic keys... $ srun --ntasks-per-node=2 -N1 --cpu_bind=none env | grep BIND SLURM_CPU_BIND_VERBOSE=quiet SLURM_CPU_BIND_TYPE=none SLURM_CPU_BIND_LIST= SLURM_CPU_BIND=quiet,none SLURM_CPU_BIND_VERBOSE=quiet SLURM_CPU_BIND_TYPE=none SLURM_CPU_BIND_LIST= SLURM_CPU_BIND=quiet,none $ srun --ntasks-per-node=2 -N1 --cpu_bind=core env | grep BIND SLURM_CPU_BIND_VERBOSE=quiet SLURM_CPU_BIND_TYPE=mask_cpu: SLURM_CPU_BIND_LIST=0x1111,0x2222 SLURM_CPU_BIND=quiet,mask_cpu:0x1111,0x2222 SLURM_CPU_BIND_VERBOSE=quiet SLURM_CPU_BIND_TYPE=mask_cpu: SLURM_CPU_BIND_LIST=0x1111,0x2222 SLURM_CPU_BIND=quiet,mask_cpu:0x1111,0x2222 Andy On 10/27/2016 11:57 AM, r...@open-mpi.org<mailto:r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: Hey Andy Is there a SLURM envar that would tell us the binding option from the srun cmd line? We automatically bind when direct launched due to user complaints of poor performance if we don’t. If the user specifies a binding option, then we detect that we were already bound and don’t do it. However, if the user specifies that they not be bound, then we think they simply didn’t specify anything - and that isn’t the case. If we can see something that tells us “they explicitly said not to do itâ€, then we can avoid the situation. Ralph On Oct 27, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Andy Riebs <andy.ri...@hpe.com<mailto:andy.ri...@hpe.com>> wrote: Hi All, We are running Open MPI version 1.10.2, built with support for Slurm version 16.05.0. When a user specifies "--cpu_bind=none", MPI tries to bind by core, which segv's if there are more processes than cores. The user reports: What I found is that % srun --ntasks-per-node=8 --cpu_bind=none \ env SHMEM_SYMMETRIC_HEAP_SIZE=1024M bin/all2all.shmem.exe 0 will have the problem, but: % srun --ntasks-per-node=8 --cpu_bind=none \ env SHMEM_SYMMETRIC_HEAP_SIZE=1024M ./bindit.sh bin/all2all.shmem.exe 0 Will run as expected and print out the usage message because I didn’t provide the right arguments to the code. So, it appears that the binding has something to do with the issue. My binding script is as follows: % cat bindit.sh #!/bin/bash #echo SLURM_LOCALID=$SLURM_LOCALID stride=1 if [ ! -z "$SLURM_LOCALID" ]; then let bindCPU=$SLURM_LOCALID*$stride exec numactl --membind=0 --physcpubind=$bindCPU $* fi $* % -- Andy Riebs andy.ri...@hpe.com<mailto:andy.ri...@hpe.com> Hewlett-Packard Enterprise High Performance Computing Software Engineering +1 404 648 9024 My opinions are not necessarily those of HPE May the source be with you! _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.open-mpi.org<mailto:users@lists.open-mpi.org> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.open-mpi.org<mailto:users@lists.open-mpi.org> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.open-mpi.org<mailto:users@lists.open-mpi.org> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.open-mpi.org<mailto:users@lists.open-mpi.org> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.open-mpi.org<mailto:users@lists.open-mpi.org> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.open-mpi.org<mailto:users@lists.open-mpi.org> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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