[mvapich-discuss] Help with polled desc error

Tue Feb 12 15:57:59 EST 2008

Hi,

We have the same problem here with Mvapich2 1.0.1 on a Dell infiniband
cluster. It has 8 cores per node and is running RHEL 4.5 (kernel
2.6.9-55). The OFED library version is 1.2. 

At first it seemed that any code compiled with Mvapich2 1.0.1 failed at
the MPI_INIT stage when running with more than 128 procs. But later on
we found that a code could run only if it doesn't use all 8 processors
on the same node (which explains why mpiGraph never fails, because it
uses only 1 processor per node). For example, a job running with 16
nodes and 8 procs per node will fail, but one with 32 nodes and 4 procs
per node will not. 

In addition, if the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable is set to 1, a
bunch of errors appear in the standard error like this:

61: malloc: using debugging hooks
61: free(): invalid pointer 0x707000!
61: Fatal error in MPI_Init:
61: Other MPI error, error stack:
61: MPIR_Init_thread(259)..: Initialization failed
61: MPID_Init(102).........: channel initialization failed
61: MPIDI_CH3_Init(178)....: 
61: MPIDI_CH3I_CM_Init(855): Error initializing MVAPICH2 malloc library

I'm not quite sure what these messages mean, but sure it looks like a
memory issue?

Both Mvapich2 0.98 and Mvapich 1.0beta are fine on the same system.

Cheers,
Le

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 22:02 -0800, Shao-Ching Huang wrote:
> Hi
> 
> No failure was found in these mpiGraph runs. It's just that there is
> significant variation among the entries of the matrices, compared to
> another IB cluster of ours.
> 
> http://reynolds.turb.ucla.edu/~schuang/mpiGraph/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Shao-Ching
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:43:19PM -0500, wei huang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > How often do you observe the failures when running the mpiGraph test? Do
> > all the failure happen at startup, as your simple program?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Wei Huang
> > 
> > 774 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Ave,
> > Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
> > Ohio State University
> > OH 43210
> > Tel: (614)292-8501
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Shao-Ching Huang wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Hi Wei,
> > >
> > > We cleaned up a few things and re-ran the mpiGraph tests. The updated
> > > results are posted here:
> > >
> > > http://reynolds.turb.ucla.edu/~schuang/mpiGraph/mpiGraph-8a.out_html/index.html
> > > http://reynolds.turb.ucla.edu/~schuang/mpiGraph/mpiGraph-9a.out_html/index.html
> > >
> > > Please ignore results in my previous email. Thank you.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Shao-Ching
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:35:41PM -0800, Shao-Ching Huang wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Wei,
> > > >
> > > > We did 2 runs of mpiGraph that you suggested on 48 nodes, with one (1)
> > > > MPI process per node:
> > > >
> > > > mpiexec -np 48 ./mpiGraph 4096 10 10 >& mpiGraph.out
> > > >
> > > > The results from the two runs are posted here:
> > > >
> > > > http://reynolds.turb.ucla.edu/~schuang/mpiGraph/mpiGraph-1.out_html/
> > > > http://reynolds.turb.ucla.edu/~schuang/mpiGraph/mpiGraph-2.out_html/
> > > >
> > > > During the tests, some other users are also running jobs on some of
> > > > these 48 nodes.
> > > >
> > > > Could you please help us interpret these results, if possible?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > > >
> > > > Shao-Ching Huang
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:05:06PM -0500, wei huang wrote:
> > > > > Hi Scott,
> > > > >
> > > > > We went up to 256 processes (32 nodes) and did not see the problem in few
> > > > > hundred runs (cpi). Thus, to narrow down the problem, we want to make sure
> > > > > the fabrics and system setup are ok. To diagnose this, we suggest you
> > > > > running mpiGraph program from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpigraph.
> > > > > This test stresses the interconnects. It should fail at a much higher
> > > > > frequency than simple cpi program if there is a problem with your system
> > > > > setup.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Wei Huang
> > > > >
> > > > > 774 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Ave,
> > > > > Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
> > > > > Ohio State University
> > > > > OH 43210
> > > > > Tel: (614)292-8501
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Scott A. Friedman wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > My co-worker passed this along...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, the error happens on the cpi.c program too.  It happened 2 times
> > > > > > among the 9 cases I ran.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I was using 128 processes (on 32 4-core nodes).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > >
> > > > > > and another...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >    It happens for a simple MPI program which just does MPI_Init and
> > > > > > MPI_Finalize and print out number of processors.  It happened for
> > > > > > anything from 4 nodes (16 processors ) and more.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What environment variables should we look for?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Scott
> > > > > >
> > > > > > wei huang wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi Scott,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On how many processes (and how many nodes) you ran your program? Do you
> > > > > > > have any environmental variables when you are running the program? Does
> > > > > > > the error happen on simple test like cpi?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > > Wei Huang
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 774 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Ave,
> > > > > > > Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
> > > > > > > Ohio State University
> > > > > > > OH 43210
> > > > > > > Tel: (614)292-8501
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Scott A. Friedman wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >> The low level ibv tests work fine.
> > > > > > >
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