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Fatal error in MPI_Allreduce


I need to make cluster using MPICH. In this case first I tried these examples(http://mpitutorial.com/beginner-mpi-tutorial/) in a single machine and those were work as it expected. Then I created cluster according to this (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MpichCluster) and run below example which is given there and it works.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <mpi.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
 int myrank, nprocs;

 MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
 MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &nprocs);
 MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &myrank);

 printf("Hello from processor %d of %d\n", myrank, nprocs);

 MPI_Finalize();
 return 0;

}

mpiexec -n 8 -f machinefile ./mpi_hello

So next I ran this example(http://mpitutorial.com/tutorials/mpi-reduce-and-allreduce/) but at that time I am getting this error. No idea what and where went wrong?

    Fatal error in MPI_Allreduce: A process has failed, error stack:
    MPI_Allreduce(861)........: MPI_Allreduce(sbuf=0x7ffff0f55630, rbuf=0x7ffff0f55634, count=1, MPI_FLOAT, MPI_SUM, MPI_COMM_WORLD) failed
    MPIR_Allreduce_impl(719)..:
    MPIR_Allreduce_intra(362).:
    dequeue_and_set_error(888): Communication error with rank 1

    ===================================================================================
    =   BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES
    =   EXIT CODE: 1
    =   CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES
    =   YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES
    ===================================================================================
    [proxy:0:1@ce-412] HYD_pmcd_pmip_control_cmd_cb (./pm/pmiserv/pmip_cb.c:886): assert (!closed) failed
    [proxy:0:1@ce-412] HYDT_dmxu_poll_wait_for_event (./tools/demux/demux_poll.c:77): callback returned error status
    [proxy:0:1@ce-412] main (./pm/pmiserv/pmip.c:206): demux engine error waiting for event
    [mpiexec@ce-411] HYDT_bscu_wait_for_completion (./tools/bootstrap/utils/bscu_wait.c:76): one of the processes terminated badly; aborting
    [mpiexec@ce-411] HYDT_bsci_wait_for_completion (./tools/bootstrap/src/bsci_wait.c:23): launcher returned error waiting for completion
    [mpiexec@ce-411] HYD_pmci_wait_for_completion (./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_pmci.c:217): launcher returned error waiting for completion
    [mpiexec@ce-411] main (./ui/mpich/mpiexec.c:331): process manager error waiting for completion

Solution

  • Yes as @Alexey mentioned It was a exactly network error. Here is the things what I did get this working.

    1). Exported host file as HYDRA_HOST_FILE to understand for MPICH (for more information: https://wiki.mpich.org/mpich/index.php/Using_the_Hydra_Process_Manager)

        export HYDRA_HOST_FILE=<path_to_host_file>/hosts
    

    2). I had to solve this issue (http://lists.mpich.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-January/000285.html)

       -disable-hostname-propagation
    

    Finally here is command which gives me correct connection among cluster nodes.

      mpiexec -launcher fork -disable-hostname-propagation  -f machinefile -np 4 ./Test