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Ah, great, thank you for the confirmation.</div>
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In that case it looks like Darshan is instrumenting properly at run time, but I think Kevin is on the right track that Darshan's heuristics for calculating performance in post processing are getting confused for some reason.<br>
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Probably GPFS is client-side caching aggressively in the single client case, but that wouldn't explain why the benchmark output reports a much different number than Darshan, though. They should both perceive roughly the same performance; neither the benchmark
itself nor Darshan know if caching is happening or not.</div>
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It's hard to see where the performance heuristic went wrong from looking at the log, in large part because the app repeatedly opens a file with the same name (there is a clue to this in the OPEN counters; the same file name is opened 20 times):</div>
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<span># WARNING: POSIX_OPENS counter includes both POSIX_FILENOS and POSIX_DUPS counts<br>
</span><span>POSIX 0 6563482044800691889 POSIX_OPENS 20 /gpfs/scratch/userinternal/planucar/benchio-master/shared-file/source/benchio_files/serial.dat /gpfs/scratch gpfs</span></div>
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Every time the file is opened (regardless of whether it was unlinked in between or not), Darshan keeps adding counters to the same record, which are associated with that serial.dat file name. So things like close() timestamps become nonsensical because Darshan
records when the first close() starts and when the last one finishes:</div>
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<span>[carns@carns-x1-7g Downloads]$ darshan-parser benchio_1202.darshan |grep CLOSE<br>
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<div>POSIX 0 6563482044800691889 POSIX_F_CLOSE_START_TIMESTAMP 4.536853/gpfs/scratch/userinternal/planucar/benchio-master/shared-file/source/benchio_files/serial.dat /gpfs/scratch gpfs<br>
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<div>POSIX 0 6563482044800691889 POSIX_F_CLOSE_END_TIMESTAMP 43.041987 /gpfs/scratch/userinternal/planucar/benchio-master/shared-file/source/benchio_files/serial.dat /gpfs/scratch gpfs<br>
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(This doesn't mean there was one close() that took ~40 seconds; in this case there were many close() calls and ~40 seconds elapsed between the start of the first one and completion of the last one).</div>
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If it is possible for you to modify the benchmark (as an experiment) so that it chooses a new file name on each iteration, then I think it would probably disentangle the counters enough for us to tell what went wrong.<br>
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thanks,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 12, 2020 9:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Carns, Philip H. <carns@mcs.anl.gov>; Snyder, Shane <ssnyder@mcs.anl.gov>; Harms, Kevin <harms@alcf.anl.gov><br>
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<p>Hi Phil.....POSIX</p>
<p>this is a well known benchmark ....you can easily verify it!</p>
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<p>by the way it's something like that</p>
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<p>! Serial write is unconditionally compiled<br>
subroutine serialwrite(filename, iodata, n1, n2, n3, cartcomm)<br>
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character*(*) :: filename<br>
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integer :: n1, n2, n3<br>
double precision, dimension(0:n1+1,0:n2+1,0:n3+1) :: iodata<br>
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integer :: cartcomm, ierr, rank, size<br>
integer, parameter :: iounit = 10<br>
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integer :: i<br>
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call MPI_Comm_size(cartcomm, size, ierr)<br>
call MPI_Comm_rank(cartcomm, rank, ierr)<br>
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! Write same amount of data as the parallel write but do it all from rank 0<br>
! This is just to get a baseline figure for serial IO performance - note<br>
! that the contents of the file will be differnent from the parallel calls<br>
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if (rank == 0) then<br>
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open(file=filename, unit=iounit, access='stream')<br>
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do i = 1, size<br>
write(unit=iounit) iodata(1:n1, 1:n2, 1:n3)<br>
end do<br>
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close(iounit)<br>
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end if<br>
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end subroutine serialwrite<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">Il 12/02/2020 14:13, Carns, Philip H. ha scritto:<br>
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Hi Piero,</div>
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In the serial case, is the rank that's doing I/O still using MPI-IO, or is it making calls directly to POSIX in that case?</div>
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The Darshan log for the serial case doesn't show any MPI-IO activity, but I'm not sure if that's accurate, or if it's an indication that we missed some instrumentation.</div>
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thanks,</div>
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<darshan-users-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov></a> on behalf of Piero LANUCARA <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:p.lanucara@cineca.it">
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Snyder, Shane <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ssnyder@mcs.anl.gov">
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darshan-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a> <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:darshan-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov">
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<div class="x_PlainText">Hi Shane, Kevin<br>
<br>
thanks for the update.<br>
<br>
I attached a new upated files (log and pdf) to this email.<br>
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Also, the log from BENCHIO is attached.<br>
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thanks again<br>
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regards<br>
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Piero<br>
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Il 11/02/2020 20:15, Shane Snyder ha scritto:<br>
> Definitely looks like something strange is happening when Darshan is <br>
> estimating the time spent in I/O operations (as seen in the very first <br>
> figure, observed write time barely even registers) in the serial case, <br>
> which it is ultimately used to provide the performance estimate.<br>
><br>
> If you could provide them, the raw Darshan logs would be really <br>
> helpful. That should make it clear whether it's an instrumentation <br>
> issue (i.e., under accounting for time spent in I/O operations at <br>
> runtime) or if its an issue with the heuristics in the PDF summary <br>
> tool you are using, as Kevin points out. If it's the latter, having an <br>
> example log to test modifications to our heuristics would be very <br>
> helpful to us.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> --Shane<br>
><br>
> On 2/11/20 8:36 AM, Harms, Kevin wrote:<br>
>> Piero,<br>
>><br>
>> the performance estimate is based on heuristics, it's possible the <br>
>> 'serial' model is breaking some assumptions about how the I/O is <br>
>> done. Is every rank opening the file, but only rank 0 is doing actual <br>
>> I/O?<br>
>><br>
>> If possible, you could provide the log and we could check to see <br>
>> what the counters look like.<br>
>><br>
>> kevin<br>
>><br>
>> ________________________________________<br>
>> From: Piero LANUCARA <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:p.lanucara@cineca.it">
<p.lanucara@cineca.it></a><br>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 2:28 AM<br>
>> To: Harms, Kevin<br>
>> Cc: <a class="x_moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:darshan-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov">
darshan-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a><br>
>> Subject: Re: [Darshan-users] Darshan & EPCC benchio different behaviour<br>
>><br>
>> Hi Kevin<br>
>><br>
>> first of all thanks for the investigation..I did some futher test and it<br>
>> seems like the issue may appear using Fortran (MPI, mainly IntelMPI) <br>
>> codes.<br>
>><br>
>> Is this information useful?<br>
>><br>
>> regards<br>
>> Piero<br>
>> Il 07/02/2020 16:07, Harms, Kevin ha scritto:<br>
>>> Piero,<br>
>>><br>
>>> just to confirm, the serial case is still running in parallel, <br>
>>> 36 processes, but the I/O is only from rank 0?<br>
>>><br>
>>> kevin<br>
>>><br>
>>> ________________________________________<br>
>>> From: Darshan-users <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:darshan-users-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov">
<darshan-users-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov></a> on <br>
>>> behalf of Piero LANUCARA <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:p.lanucara@cineca.it">
<p.lanucara@cineca.it></a><br>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 4:56 AM<br>
>>> To: <a class="x_moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:darshan-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov">
darshan-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a><br>
>>> Subject: Re: [Darshan-users] Darshan & EPCC benchio different behaviour<br>
>>><br>
>>> p.s<br>
>>><br>
>>> to be more "verbose" I add to the discussion:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Darshan output for the "serial" run (serial.pdf)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Darshan output for the MPI-IO run (mpiio.pdf)<br>
>>><br>
>>> benchio output for "serial" run (serial.out)<br>
>>><br>
>>> benchio output for "MPI-IO" run (mpi-io.out)<br>
>>><br>
>>> thanks<br>
>>><br>
>>> Piero<br>
>>><br>
>>> Il 04/02/2020 19:44, Piero LANUCARA ha scritto:<br>
>>>> Dear all<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I'm using Darshan to measure EPCC benchio benchmark<br>
>>>> (<a href="https://github.com/EPCCed/benchio">https://github.com/EPCCed/benchio</a>) behaviour on a given x86 Tier1<br>
>>>> machine.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> running two benchio tests (MPI-IO and serial) a different behaviour<br>
>>>> appear<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> while Darhsan pdf log file is able to recover the estimated time and<br>
>>>> bandwidth in the MPI-IO case, the "serial" run is completely<br>
>>>> underestimated by Darshan (the time and bandwidth are less/greater<br>
>>>> than benchio output).<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Suggestions are welcomed<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> thanks<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Piero<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> _______________________________________________<br>
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>>>> <a href="https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/darshan-users">https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/darshan-users</a><br>
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