[slurm-users] [EXTERNAL] OpenMPI and Slurm clarification?

[Pritchard Jr., Howard]

HI Craig,

Your use of the –with-pmix on the open mpi configure line is important.  Without  any args to this configure option open mpi configure will first check if there’s an external pmix which is newer than the one that is included in the openmpi release tarball.  If it is not, the internal pmix is built.

You can check in the config.log whether the internal PMix or an external one was used.

If you want to be extra careful, find the location of the PMIx v3 used to build the SLURM PMIx plugin, and then rebuild your open mpi 4.1.5 with

./configure … --with-pmix=path_to_pmix_used_for_slurm_pmix_plugin_build ….

But you may be okay without doing this.  You can check this by running your open mpi job with

srun –mpi=pmix_v3 -N2 foo

and see if it behaves as expected.

I’m not sure what the “openmpi” result from srun –mpi=list is about.

Howard



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Subject: Re: [slurm-users] [EXTERNAL] OpenMPI and Slurm clarification?


srun: MPI types are...
srun: none
srun: openmpi
srun: pmix_v3
srun: pmi2
srun: pmix

but I'm not sure that tells me much about how I am supposed to be building OpenMPI?

On 3/27/23 14:41, Pritchard Jr., Howard wrote:
HI Craig,

If you run

srun –mpi=list

what does slurm report?

That will help in determining what argument you want to supply for the –mpi srun option.

Howard


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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [slurm-users] OpenMPI and Slurm clarification?


Can someone please clarify the "best practices" for building OpenMPI compatible with Slurm?

https://slurm.schedmd.com/mpi_guide.html#open_mpi<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/slurm.schedmd.com/mpi_guide.html*open_mpi__;Iw!!Bt8fGhp8LhKGRg!Cb86a2IwxgqfT5fv1_eEByDpAyhly3ZdN6Wwl7Wod9FRPx9HBpvFVojIRgu5oSpti_3jOXhNyvJqEMGs$> tells me what I _can_ do but I'm unclear as to what I _should_ do.

I've built OpenMPI 4.1.5 with:   --with-pmix  --with-libevent=internal  --with-hwloc=internal  --with-slurm.  If I run an MPI program on my cluster (slurm 18.08.8) with "srun -N2 foo" it seems to work fine. (slurm.conf has MpiDefault=pmix).

If I "srun --mpi=openmpi -N2 foo" it chokes with:
OPAL_ERROR: Unreachable in file ../../../../../opal/mca/pmix/pmix3/pmix3x_client.c at line 112
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This application appears to have been direct launched using "srun",
but OMPI was not build with SLURM's PMI support and therefore cannot
execute.  There are several options for building PMI support under
SLURM, depending upon the SLURM version you are using:

version 16.05 or later: you can use SLURM's PMIx support. THis
require that you configure and uild SLURM --with-pmix.
.
.
.

So I guess the question is, what is the "right" way to build OpenMPI with Slurm.  Is the fact that my non-Slurm pmix works "correct" or am I just getting lucky that the various software I have just happens to be compatible.  If I build OpenMPI am I supposed to use Slurm's pmix/libevent/hwloc or is that optional.  If it's optional when/why might I choose to do so.  If I need Slurm's versions is there some way to find which pmix/libevent/hwloc my current Slurm install is using? Note: my sysadmins are not going to be helpful as they think Slurm 18 and OpenMPI 4.0.2a is adequate for users' needs :^(.

I like the idea of _not_ tying my OpenMPI to the installed Slurm just in case our support people ever decide to upgrade system software.

Thanks.




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