[mpich-discuss] Calling MPI from a CGI Python script

Dave Goodell goodell at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Apr 29 08:14:27 CDT 2010


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MPI developers at users at open-mpi.org.

-Dave

On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:21 AM, Srujan kumar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run an MPI program as a CGI Python script which is  
> running over an Apache web server running locally on my computer.
>
> I have a test.py file which has the code snippet
>
> cmd = 'opt/local/bin/mpiexec -n 7 testmpi'
> output = commands.getoutput(cmd)
>
>
> When I run the file test.py as an executable over command line (as ./ 
> test.py ), it works perfectly fine.
>
> But when I try to run the same over the web browser, the MPI code  
> functions as if the command was 'mpiexec -n 1 testmpi'.
> It is unable to recognize that there are multiple processes that are  
> being invoked. In other words it is not forking child processes.
>
> I checked in to the error log in apache regarding the same. The  
> corresponding error code is following:
>
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261.local: 
> 07199] [0,0,0]-[0,0,1] mca_oob_tcp_msg_send_handler: writev failed:  
> Broken pipe (32), referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261.local: 
> 07199] [0,0,0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Communication failure in file / 
> SourceCache/openmpi/openmpi-5/openmpi/orte/mca/gpr/replica/ 
> communications/gpr_replica_recv_proxy_msgs.c at line 49, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> *** Process received signal ***, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> Signal: Segmentation fault (11), referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> Signal code: Address not mapped (1), referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> Failing at address: 0x8, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 0] 2   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x00000000803ec3fa  
> _sigtramp + 26, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 1] 3   ???                                 0x0000000000000004 0x0  
> + 4, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 2] 4   libopen-rte.0.dylib                 0x000000000002dca9  
> mca_oob_send_packed_nb + 297, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 3] 5   mca_oob_tcp.so                      0x00000000000f4a8f  
> mca_oob_tcp_msg_complete + 175, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 4] 6   mca_oob_tcp.so                      0x00000000000f588a  
> mca_oob_tcp_peer_send + 298, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 5] 7   mca_oob_tcp.so                      0x00000000000f9973  
> mca_oob_tcp_send_nb + 595, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 6] 8   libopen-rte.0.dylib                 0x000000000002dc4c  
> mca_oob_send_packed_nb + 204, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 7] 9   mca_gpr_replica.so                  0x00000000002271a0  
> orte_gpr_replica_recv + 304, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 8] 10  libopen-rte.0.dylib                 0x000000000002da13  
> mca_oob_recv_packed_nb + 403, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [ 9] 11  mca_oob_tcp.so                      0x00000000000f5073  
> mca_oob_tcp_msg_recv_complete + 771, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [10] 12  mca_oob_tcp.so                      0x00000000000f6400  
> mca_oob_tcp_peer_lookup + 2240, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [11] 13  libopen-pal.0.dylib                 0x0000000000077f3e  
> opal_event_base_loop + 990, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [12] 14  libopen-pal.0.dylib                 0x000000000006e8ce  
> opal_progress + 126, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [13] 15  mpiexec                             0x0000000000001b9d  
> orterun + 2242, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [14] 16  mpiexec                             0x0000000000001764  
> orterun + 1161, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [15] 17  mpiexec                             0x00000000000012d9 main  
> + 27, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> [16] 18  mpiexec                             0x000000000000129c  
> start + 52, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] [NeoDen-1261:07199]  
> *** End of error message ***, referer: http://localhost:8888/
> [Wed Apr 28 20:32:20 2010] [error] [client ::1] /Users/esrujan/ 
> apache2/htdocs/cgi-bin/shell.sh: line 29:  7199 Segmentation  
> fault      mpiexec -np 10 testmpi, referer: http://localhost:8888/
>
>
> Can some one help me what the problem is? Why am I not able to run  
> the MPI using a CGI script.
>
> Thanks a ton for your help,
> -- 
> Srujan Kumar Enaganti
>
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