[petsc-dev] Fwd: hbw_malloc on KNL

[Jeff Hammond]

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Jeff

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *Hong Zhang <hongzhang at anl.gov>
> *Subject: **hbw_malloc on KNL*
> *Date: *August 31, 2016 at 5:00:44 PM CDT
> *To: *"Smith, Barry F." <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>, "Balay, Satish" <
> balay at mcs.anl.gov>, "Schanen, Michel" <mschanen at anl.gov>
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> Hi all,
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> I am experimenting with hbw_malloc() in PETSc. I used it to replace the
> default malloc() in PETSc. But I got the following error messages on the
> screen when running my PETSc example:
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> map size mismatch; abort
> : No such file or directory
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> Each process threw out the above message twice. After that, the program
> continued to run to the end. But it took way more time than expected.
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> The good news is, if I call hbw_malloc() to allocate a bit memory, e.g. 1
> byte, before PetscInitialize(), the error will disappear and the example
> runs almost as fast as using the numactl option (which automatically put
> everything on MCDRAM). Although it works somehow, adding a test call to
> how_malloc() like this is just absurd. I am wondering if you have any clue
> on why this happens and how to fix it. FYI, I attached the driver for the
> PETSc example.
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> Thanks,
> Hong
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