[mpich-discuss] Building MPE for use with OpenMPI
Jeff Hammond
jeff.science at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 13:03:43 CST 2015
MPE lives here now: http://git.mpich.org/mpe.git/
Jeff
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Schilling, Herbert W. (GRC-VE00) <
hschilling at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thanks. Pardon my ignorance but I I wanted to just use MPE with an
> existing OpenMPI installation and it's not clear to me ( even after
> searching and reading ), how to do that from the full MPICH code base at
> that repo. I can't really even find MPE in that code at all. What am I
> missing?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Dec 1, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Herbert:
>
> Please try
> https://github.com/jeffhammond/mpich/tree/hammond-mpi2-deprecated-functions-noconst
> and let me know if you see any problems.
>
> Best,
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Schilling, Herbert W. (GRC-VE00) <
> hschilling at nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeff and Pavan,
>>
>> Thanks for all the help on this. Jeff, when you have the fix up there,
>> I can give it a shot!
>>
>>
>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 1:15 AM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Facepalm. Indeed, changing the header but not the implementation was
>> pretty dumb on my part. I'll fix that tomorrow.
>>
>> I have no opinion on the ABI situation, particularly since I know there
>> are other folks that Intel that do.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, Jeff. The actual function definitions should be modified as
>>> well, which your patch seems to miss.
>>>
>>> But I think the potentially time consuming part is to get buy-in from
>>> all the ABI consortium folks for this change. It doesn't exactly break ABI
>>> for applications, but will be an annoying change for tools. Ken is looking
>>> into this.
>>>
>>> -- Pavan
>>>
>>> > On Nov 30, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Pavan:
>>> >
>>> > See hammond-mpi2-deprecated-functions-noconst branch on mpich-review.
>>> I found three functions where this change should be made. I do not know if
>>> that is the full list, so someone should verify.
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> >
>>> > Jeff
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > MPI_Type_struct is not a part of the MPI standard anymore and is
>>> replaced by MPI_Type_create_struct. Both MPICH and Open MPI decided to
>>> retain it, but followed different directions for it. MPICH decided to
>>> follow the same convention as MPI_Type_create_struct with the const
>>> additions. Open MPI decided to keep the old prototypes as is.
>>> >
>>> > Unfortunately, MPE got stuck in between the two. The best approach
>>> would be to simply remove those functions from MPE and this problem just
>>> goes away. Would you be able to do that and contribute a patch?
>>> >
>>> > More generally, I think MPICH was overzealous in trying to constify
>>> prototypes for the deleted functions. It should have just left them as
>>> they are, like what Open MPI did. We'll figure out what to do about that
>>> internally, but that's not going to be a quick change because of ABI and
>>> other such stuff.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > -- Pavan
>>> >
>>> > > On Nov 30, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Schilling, Herbert W. (GRC-VE00) <
>>> hschilling at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi,
>>> > >
>>> > > I am trying to build MPE for use with OpenMPI. I built from source
>>> Version 1.10.1 of OpenMPI.
>>> > >
>>> > > I am using this version of MPE
>>> ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/mpi/mpe/mpe2.tar.gz
>>> > >
>>> > > Should this work fine? I followed the instructions to build like
>>> this:
>>> > >
>>> > > ${MPE_SRC_DIR}/configure MPI_CC=${OPENMPI_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/mpicc
>>> \
>>> > > CC=<C_COMPILER_used_to_build_OpenMPI> \
>>> > >
>>> MPI_F77=${OPENMPI_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/mpif77 \
>>> > >
>>> F77=<FORTRAN_COMPILER_used_to_build_OpenMPI> \
>>> > > --with-java2=/usr/local/j2sdk-1.4.2
>>> > > --prefix=<MPE_INSTALL_DIR>
>>> > > make
>>> > > make install
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > I keep running into problems with conflicting declarations
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > log_mpi_core.c:5611: error: conflicting types for 'MPI_Type_struct'
>>> > > /u/hschilli/local/include/mpi.h:1796: error: previous declaration
>>> of 'MPI_Type_struct' was here
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > I think the issue is that MPE's declaration uses some const
>>> qualifiers while OpenMPI does not.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > I tried hacking my way through this with the macro
>>> > >
>>> > > HAVE_CONST_IN_MPI_DECL
>>> > > and MPE_CONST but no luck so far.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > What am I doing wrong?
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks in advance.
>>> > >
>>> > > ---------
>>> > > Herb Schilling
>>> > > Scientific Applications and Visualization Team
>>> > > http://ocio.grc.nasa.gov/gvis
>>> > > Office of the Chief Information Officer
>>> > > NASA Glenn Research Center
>>> > > hschilling at nasa.gov
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
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