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From: Mike Lin <mikelin@MIT.EDU>
To: sylvain@le-gall.net, Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: ocamlmpi reduce_int_array, showstopper?
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 14:25:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimEra9gdaJRz4nwrRfMrz-VovAQLB7vPuN9fK9G@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Sylvain, Xavier,
I have encountered what seems to be a serious problem with
reduce_int_array in ocamlmpi, namely, in a trivial test case it
successfully returns incorrect results. This is my test code

--
(* ocamlopt -o test -I +ocamlmpi mpi.cmxa test.ml *)
let me = Mpi.comm_rank Mpi.comm_world;;
let n = Mpi.comm_size Mpi.comm_world;;
let k = 1

let src = Array.make 1 k;;
let dest = Array.make 1 0;;
Mpi.reduce_int_array src dest Mpi.Int_sum 0 Mpi.comm_world;;
if me = 0 then Printf.printf "using reduce_int_array, expected: %d
got: %d\n" (n*k) dest.(0);;

let srcf = Array.make 1 (float k);;
let destf = Array.make 1 0.;;
Mpi.reduce_float_array srcf destf Mpi.Float_sum 0 Mpi.comm_world;;
if me = 0 then Printf.printf "using reduce_float_array, expected: %.1f
got: %.1f\n" (float (n*k)) destf.(0);;
--

I ran this on n=8 processors on NCSA Abe and the output is

using reduce_int_array, expected: 8 got: 0
using reduce_float_array, expected: 8.0 got: 8.0

If I change k to 1,000,000 I get:

using reduce_int_array, expected: 8000000 got: 4000000
using reduce_float_array, expected: 8000000.0 got: 8000000.0

[mikelin@honest3 ~/]$ uname -a
Linux honest3.ncsa.uiuc.edu 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp-perfctr
#7 SMP Tue Nov 10 10:41:00 CST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[mikelin@honest3 ~/]$ which mpiexec
/usr/local/mvapich2-1.2-intel-ofed-1.2.5.5/bin/mpiexec

see also: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Hardware/Intel64Cluster/

I know the ocamlmpi code has been stable for some time, but I wonder
if it's been tested on x86_64? Let me know if you're able to reproduce
this.

Thanks,
Mike


             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-04 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-04 18:25 Mike Lin [this message]
2010-09-06 10:51 ` Sylvain Le Gall

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