[molpro-user] Can I compile molpro2009.1 parallel version without GA?

He Ping heping at sccas.cn
Fri Oct 9 13:58:55 BST 2009


Hi Manhui,

Thanks. I will try these patches first.
But would you like to tell me something about GA's effect on molpro? So far
I can not get a GA version molpro, so I can not know the performance of GA
version. If GA version is not much better than non-GA version, I will not
take much time building it.
Thanks a lot

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Manhui Wang <wangm9 at cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear He Ping,
>     Recent patches include some bugfixes for intel compiler 11,
> OopenMPI, and running molpro across nodes with InfiniBand. If you have
> not updated them, please do it now. It may resolve your existing problems.
>
> He Ping wrote:
> > Dear Manhui,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your detailed reply, that's very helpful. Very sorry to
> > answer later, for I have to do a lot of tests. So far, one version of
> > molpro2009.1 is basically ok, but I still have some questions.
> >
> >    1. Compile Part.
> >       Openmpi 1.3.3 can pass compile and link for both w GA and w/o GA
> >       4.2. I do not use my own blas, so I use default, this is my
> >       configure step,
> >
> >       ./configure -batch -ifort -icc -mppbase $MPI_HOME/include64 -var
> >       LIBS="-L/usr/lib64 -libverbs -lm" -mpp  (in your letter, I guess
> >       you forget this necessary option.)
> >
> >       But *intelmpi failed for both*, I can show the err message
> >       seperately below.
> >
> >       *Intelmpi w/o GA:  *
> >
> >       make[1]: Nothing to be done for `default'.
> >       make[1]: Leaving directory
> >
> `/datastore/workspace/scheping/molpro2009.1_intelmpi/molpro2009.1/utilities'
> >       make[1]: Entering directory
> >
> `/datastore/workspace/scheping/molpro2009.1_intelmpi/molpro2009.1/src'
> >       Preprocessing include files
> >       make[1]: *** [common.log] Error 1
> >       make[1]: *** Deleting file `common.log'
> >       make[1]: Leaving directory
> >
> `/datastore/workspace/scheping/molpro2009.1_intelmpi/molpro2009.1/src'
> >       make: *** [src] Error 2
> >
> >       *Intelmpi w GA:*
> >
> >       compiling molpro_cvb.f
> >       failed
> >       molpro_cvb.f(1360): error #5102: Cannot open include file
> >       'common/ploc'
> >             include "common/ploc"
> >       --------------^
> >       compilation aborted for molpro_cvb.f (code 1)
> >       make[3]: *** [molpro_cvb.o] Error 1
> >       preprocessing perfloc.f
> >       compiling perfloc.f
> >       failed
> >       perfloc.f(14): error #5102: Cannot open include file 'common/ploc'
> >             include "common/ploc"
> >       --------------^
> >       perfloc.f(42): error #6385: The highest data type rank permitted
> >       is INTEGER(KIND=8).   [VARIAT]
> >             if(.not.variat)then
> >       --------------^
> >       perfloc.f(42): error #6385: The highest data type rank permitted
> >       is INTEGER(KIND=8).
>
> Which version of intel compilers are you using? Has your GA worked fine?
> We have tested Molpro2009.1 with
> (1) intel/compilers/10.1.015 (11.0.074), GA 4-2 hosted by intel/mpi/3.1
> (3.2)
> (2) without GA, intel/compilers/10.1.015 (11.0.074), intel/mpi/3.1 (3.2)
>
>  all work fine. CONFIG files will be helpful to see the problems.
> >
> >    2. No .out file when I use more than about 12 processes, but I can
> >       get .xml file. It's very strange, everything is ok when process
> >       number is less than 12, but once exceed this number, such as 16
> >       cpus, molpro always gets this err message,
> >
> >       orrtl: severe (174): SIGSEGV, segmentation fault occurred
> >       Image              PC                Routine
> >       Line        Source
> >       libopen-pal.so.0   00002AAAAB4805C6  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       libopen-pal.so.0   00002AAAAB482152  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       libc.so.6          000000310FC5F07A  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       molprop_2009_1_Li  00000000005A4C36  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       molprop_2009_1_Li  00000000005A4B84  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       molprop_2009_1_Li  000000000053E57B  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       molprop_2009_1_Li  0000000000540A8C  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       molprop_2009_1_Li  000000000053C5E5  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       molprop_2009_1_Li  00000000004BCA5C  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       libc.so.6          000000310FC1D8A4  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >       molprop_2009_1_Li  00000000004BC969  Unknown
> >       Unknown  Unknown
> >
> >       Can I ignore this message?
> Have you seen this on one or multiple nodes? If on multiple nodes, the
> problem has been fixed by recent patches. By default, both *.out and
> .xml can be obtained, but you can use option --no-xml-output to disable
> the *xml.
> In addition, OpenMPI seems to be unstable sometime. When lots of jobs
> are run with OpenMPI, some jobs hang up unexpectedly. This behavior is
> not seen for Intel MPI.
>
> >
> >    3. Script Err. For molpro openmpi version, the script
> >       molpro_openmpi1.3.3/bin/molprop_2009_1_Linux_x86_64_i8 seems not
> >       to work.
> >       When I call this script, only one process is started, even if I
> >       use -np 8. So I have to run it manually, such as
> >       mpirun -np 8 -machinefile ./hosts
> >       molprop_2009_1_Linux_x86_64_i8.exe test.com <http://test.com>
> Have your ./bin/molpro worked?. For me, it works fine. In ./bin/molpro,
> some environmental settings are included. In the case that ./bin/molpro
> doesn't work properly,  you might want to directly use
> molprop_2009_1_Linux_x86_64_i8.exe, then it is your responsibility to
> set up these environmental variables.
> >    4. Molpro w GA can not cross over nodes. One node is ok, but if cross
> >       over nodes, I will get "molpro ARMCI DASSERT fail" err, and molpro
> >       can not be terminated normally. Do you know the difference between
> >       w GA and w/o GA? If GA is not better than w/o GA, I will pass this
> >       GA version.
> I think this problem has been fixed by recent patches.
> As the difference between molpro w GA and w/o GA, it is hard to make a
> simple conclusion. For calculations with a small number of processes(
> eg. < 8), molpro w GA might be somewhat fast, but molpro without GA is
> quite competitive in performance when it is run with a large number of
> processes.  Please refer to the benchmark
> results(http://www.molpro.net/info/bench.php).
> >
> >
> >
> >       Sorry for packing up so many questions, answer is any one question
> >       will help me a lot. And I think question 1 and 2 will be more
> >       important to me. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Best wishes,
> Manhui
>
>
>
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Manhui Wang <wangm9 at cardiff.ac.uk
> > <mailto:wangm9 at cardiff.ac.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi He Ping,
> >       Yes, you can build parallel Molpro wthout GA for 2009.1. Please see
> >     the manual A..3.3 Configuration
> >
> >     For the case of using the MPI-2 library, one example can be
> >
> >     ./configure -mpp -mppbase /usr/local/mpich2-install/include
> >
> >     and the -mppbase directory should contain file mpi.h. Please ensure
> the
> >     built-in or freshly built MPI-2 library fully supports MPI-2 standard
> >     and works properly.
> >
> >
> >     Actually we have tested molpro2009.1 on almost the same system as
> what
> >     you mentioned (EMT64, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3
> >     (Tikanga), Intel MPI, ifort, icc, Infiniband). For both GA and MPI-2
> >     buildings, all work fine. The configurations are shown as
> follows(beware
> >     of lines wrapping):
> >     (1) For Molpro2009.1 built with MPI-2
> >     ./configure -batch -ifort -icc -blaspath
> >     /software/intel/mkl/10.0.1.014/lib/em64t
> >     <http://10.0.1.014/lib/em64t> -mppbase $MPI_HOME/include64
> >     -var LIBS="-L/usr/lib64 -libverbs -lm"
> >
> >     (2) For Molpro built with GA 4-2:
> >      Build GA4-2:
> >           make TARGET=LINUX64 USE_MPI=y CC=icc FC=ifort COPT='-O3'
> >     FOPT='-O3' \
> >           MPI_INCLUDE=$MPI_HOME/include64 MPI_LIB=$MPI_HOME/lib64 \
> >           ARMCI_NETWORK=OPENIB MA_USE_ARMCI_MEM=y
> >     IB_INCLUDE=/usr/include/infiniband IB_LIB=/usr/lib64
> >
> >           mpirun ./global/testing/test.x
> >     Build Molpro
> >     ./configure -batch -ifort -icc -blaspath
> >     /software/intel/mkl/10.0.1.014/lib/em64t
> >     <http://10.0.1.014/lib/em64t> -mppbase /GA4-2path -var
> >     LIBS="-L/usr/lib64 -libverbs -lm"
> >
> >     (LIBS="-L/usr/lib64 -libverbs -lm" will make molpro link with
> Infiniband
> >     library)
> >
> >     (some note about MOLPRO built with MPI-2 library can also been in
> manual
> >     2.2.1 Specifying parallel execution)
> >     Note: for MOLPRO built with MPI-2 library, when n processes are
> >     specified, n-1 processes are used to compute and one process is used
> to
> >     act as shared counter server (in the case of n=1, one process is used
> to
> >     compute and no shared counter server is needed). Even so, it is quite
> >     competitive in performance when it is run with a large number of
> >     processes.
> >     If you have built both versions, you can also compare the performance
> >     yourself.
> >
> >
> >     Best wishes,
> >     Manhui
> >
> >     He Ping wrote:
> >     > Hello,
> >     >
> >     > I want to run molpro2009.1 parallel version on infiniband network.
> >     I met
> >     > some problems when using GA, from the manual, section 3.2, there
> >     is one
> >     > line to say,
> >     >
> >     > If the program is to be built for parallel execution then the
> Global
> >     > Arrays toolkit *or* the
> >     > MPI-2 library is needed.
> >     >
> >     > Does that mean I can build molpro parallel version without GA? If
> so,
> >     > who can tell me some more about how to configure?
> >     > My system is EM64T, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1
> >     > (Tikanga), intel mpi, intel ifort and icc.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks a lot.
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     >
> >     > He Ping
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >
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> >     --
> >     -----------
> >     Manhui  Wang
> >     School of Chemistry, Cardiff University,
> >     Main Building, Park Place,
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > He Ping
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>
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> Manhui  Wang
> School of Chemistry, Cardiff University,
> Main Building, Park Place,
> Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
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>
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He Ping
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