MPI MPI = Message Passing Interface Specification of message passing libraries for developers and users Not a library by itself, but specifies what such a library should be Specifies application programming interface (API) for such libraries Many libraries implement such APIs on different platforms – MPI libraries Goal: provide a standard for writing message passing programs Portable, efficient, flexible Language binding: C, C++, FORTRAN, Python programs
General MPI Programs #include <mpi.h> main( int argc, char** argv ) { MPI_Init( &argc, &argv ); /* main part of the program */ /* Use MPI function call depend on your data partitioning and the parallelization architecture */ MPI_Finalize(); }
MPI Basics MPI’s pre-defined constants, function prototypes, etc., are included in a header file. This file must be included in your code wherever MPI function calls appear (in “main” and in user subroutines/functions) : #include “mpi.h” for C codes #include “mpi++.h” * for C++ codes include “mpif.h” for f77 and f9x codes MPI_Init must be the first MPI function called Terminates MPI by calling MPI_Finalize These two functions must only be called once in user code.
MPI Basics C is case-sensitive language. MPI function names always begin with “MPI_”, followed by specific name with leading character capitalized, e.g., MPI_Comm_rank. MPI pre-defined constant variables are expressed in upper case characters, e.g., MPI_COMM_WORLD.
Basic MPI Datatypes MPI datatype C datatype MPI_CHAR signed char MPI_SIGNED_CHAR signed char MPI_UNSIGNED_CHAR unsigned char MPI_SHORT signed short MPI_UNSIGNED_SHORT unsigned short MPI_INT signed int MPI_UNSIGNED unsigned int MPI_LONG signed long MPI_UNSIGNED_LONG unsigned long MPI_FLOAT float MPI_DOUBLE double MPI_LONG_DOUBLE long double
MPI is Simple Many parallel programs can be written using just these six functions. MPI_Init MPI_Finalize MPI_Comm_size MPI_Comm_rank MPI_Send MPI_Recv
Initialization Initialization: MPI_Init() initializes MPI environment Must be called before any other MPI routine (so put it at the beginning of code) Can be called only once; subsequent calls are erroneous. MPI_Init(int *argc, char **argv)
Termination MPI_Finalize() cleans up MPI environment Must be called before exits. No other MPI routines can be called after this call, even MPI_Init()
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Example 1 Compile Type “cd example1”, you will enter the folder example1 Compile the MPI program by typing “mpicc -o hello hello.c”, and you will have the executable file hello in the folder example1 Type “ls”, we can check the files and folders in the current folder example1
Example 1 Run Number of used processors vi mpi.sh #!/bin/bash #BATCH --job-name slurm_mpi #SBATCH --nodes 2 #SBATCH --ntasks 4 #SBATCH --ntasks-per-node 16 #SBATCH --mem 20000 #SBATCH --partition partedu cd $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR echo 0 > cap mpirun -np 4 ./hello Number of used processors
Run a Job on HPC using Slurm Common commands: sbatch: submit a job scancel: cancel a job squeue: display state of jobs