[Darshan-users] Darshan and Intel MPI (x86_64)
Harr, Cameron Contractor, SAIC
cameron.harr.ctr at navy.mil
Mon Feb 20 15:50:52 CST 2012
Yes, it does call MPI_INIT and _FINALIZE. Following your comments, I
looked at several different versions of the executable compiled with
different MPI stacks. Only the one compiled with MVAPICH had PMPI
symbols (per the nm -A command). Are those symbols necessary for Darshan
to work?
On 02/20/2012 01:08 PM, Phil Carns wrote:
> The program is calling MPI_INIT and MPI_FINALIZE, though right?
> Fortran I/O should be captured just fine, but libdarshan.so still
> relies on the MPI initialization and finalization routines to start
> the tool up and write the log file.
>
> Assuming that the code is calling both of the above routines, it may
> be that there is some additional step needed with Intel MPI for it to
> use a library that relies on the MPI profiling (PMPI) interface. When
> Darshan is preloaded with LD_PRELOAD, it intercepts POSIX (Fortran I/O
> in this case) calls directly, but for the MPI calls it still uses the
> profiling interface to MPI.
>
> Have you tried using any more generic profiling libraries (like mpiP
> or mpitrace) by any chance?
>
> -Phil
>
> On 02/20/2012 02:55 PM, Harr, Cameron Contractor, SAIC wrote:
>> Interface is all Fortran calls, not using MPI_IO.
>>
>> On 02/20/2012 11:48 AM, Kevin Harms wrote:
>>> what interfaces are you using for I/O? Fortran calls, MPI_File_*
>>> routines, something else?
>>>
>>> kevin
>>>
>>> On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Harr, Cameron Contractor, SAIC wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Phil. Using the PRELOAD, I can get a sample output with one
>>>> of the test C programs that comes with the Darshan source; however,
>>>> I still don't get any output from my executable. Let me ask a basic
>>>> question: My app is all Fortran; do I need to compile in any
>>>> support into Darshan for Fortran compatibility? I see that it
>>>> should support Fortran, but perhaps I'm doing something wrong.
>>>>
>>>> On 02/20/2012 10:44 AM, Phil Carns wrote:
>>>>> I don't have any first-hand experience with Intel MPI, but in
>>>>> principle it should work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does your MPI compiler produces dynamic executables by default?
>>>>> If so, can you try leaving your executable/binary unmodified and
>>>>> load the libdarshan.so library at runtime using the LD_PRELOAD
>>>>> environment variable, rather than directly linking it to your
>>>>> application? There is some more detail about this approach on
>>>>> this page:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.mcs.anl.gov/Darshan/index.php/Dynamic_linking
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> -Phil
>>>>>
>>>>> On 02/20/2012 01:28 PM, Harr, Cameron Contractor, SAIC wrote:
>>>>>> I'm trying to get Darshan running on a RedHat/X86_64 cluster with
>>>>>> a few different flavors of MPI available. I'm most recently
>>>>>> trying Intel MPI and gfortran (Intel Compilers didn't seem to
>>>>>> work) and after a fair bit of tweaking, got the executable
>>>>>> recompiled with libdarshan.so successfully linked in. In my job
>>>>>> run script, I verify that libdarshan is linked in and the job
>>>>>> runs to completion; however no output is generated. I also tried
>>>>>> setting DARSHAN_INTERNAL_TIMING=1, but still no output. Should I
>>>>>> be able to use Intel MPI and/or is there a place that documents
>>>>>> which MPI stacks are supported?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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