Abstract
An MPI profiling library is a standard mechanism for intercepting MPI calls by applications. Profiling libraries are so named because they are commonly used to gather performance data on MPI programs. Here we present a profiling library whose purpose is to detect user errors in the use of MPI’s collective operations. While some errors can be detected locally (by a single process), other errors involving the consistency of arguments passed to MPI collective functions must be tested for in a collective fashion. While the idea of using such a profiling library does not originate here, we take the idea further than it has been taken before (we detect more errors) and offer an open-source library that can be used with any MPI implementation. We describe the tests carried out, provide some details of the implementation, illustrate the usage of the library, and present performance tests.
This work was supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, SciDAC Program, under Contract W-31-109-ENG-38.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Almási, G., Archer, C., Casta nos, J.G., Gupta, M., Martorell, X., Moreira, J.E., Gropp, W.D., Rus, S., Toonen, B.: MPI on BlueGene/L: Designing an efficient general purpose messaging solution for a large cellular system. In: Dongarra, J., Laforenza, D., Orlando, S. (eds.) EuroPVM/MPI 2003. LNCS, vol. 2840, pp. 352–361. Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Gropp, W., Huss-Lederman, S., Lumsdaine, A., Lusk, E., Nitzberg, B., Saphir, W., Snir, M.: MPI–The Complete Reference, 2nd edn. The MPI-2 Extensions, vol. 2. MIT Press, Cambridge (1998)
Gropp, W.D.: Runtime checking of datatype signatures in MPI. In: Dongarra, J., Kacsuk, P., Podhorszki, N. (eds.) PVM/MPI 2000. LNCS, vol. 1908, pp. 160–167. Springer, Heidelberg (2000)
MPICH2 Web page, http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2
Rosner, R., Calder, A., Dursi, J., Fryxell, B., Lamb, D.Q., Niemeyer, J.C., Olson, K., Ricker, P., Timmes, F.X., Truran, J.W., Tufo, H., Young, Y., Zingale, M., Lusk, E., Stevens, R.: Flash code: Studying astrophysical thermonuclear flashes. Computing in Science and Engineering 2(2), 33 (2000)
Snir, M., Otto, S.W., Huss-Lederman, S., Walker, D.W., Dongarra, J.: MPI–The Complete Reference, 2nd edn. The MPI Core, vol. 1. MIT Press, Cambridge (1998)
Träff, J.L., Worringen, J.: Verifying collective MPI calls. In: Kranzlmüller, D., Kacsuk, P., Dongarra, J. (eds.) EuroPVM/MPI 2004. LNCS, vol. 3241, pp. 18–27. Springer, Heidelberg (2004)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Falzone, C., Chan, A., Lusk, E., Gropp, W. (2005). Collective Error Detection for MPI Collective Operations. In: Di Martino, B., Kranzlmüller, D., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_21
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_21
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-29009-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-31943-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)