Intel® MPI Library Developer Guide for Linux* OS

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Intel® MPI Library Developer Guide for Linux* OS
Intel® MPI Library Developer Guide for Linux* OS x
Introduction Installation and Prerequisites Compiling and Linking Running Applications Debugging Applications Analysis and Tuning Troubleshooting Additional Supported Features Examples Notices and Disclaimers
Introduction x
Introducing Intel® MPI Library Conventions and Symbols Related Information
Installation and Prerequisites x
Installation Prerequisite Steps
Compiling and Linking x
Compiling an MPI Program Compilers Support ILP64 Support
Running Applications x
Running Intel® MPI Library in Containers Selecting a Library Configuration Running an MPI Program Running an MPI/OpenMP* Program MPMD Launch Mode Fabrics Control Job Schedulers Support Controlling Process Placement Java* MPI Applications Support
Running Intel® MPI Library in Containers x
Build a Singularity* Container for an MPI Application Run the Application with a Container
Fabrics Control x
Selecting Fabrics Libfabric* Support OFI* Providers Support
Debugging Applications x
Debugging Using -gtool for Debugging
Analysis and Tuning x
Displaying MPI Debug Information Tracing Applications Interoperability with Other Tools Through -gtool MPI Tuning
Troubleshooting x
Error Message: Bad Termination Error Message: No such file or Directory Error Message: Permission Denied Error Message: Fatal Error Error Message: Bad File Descriptor Error Message: Too Many Open Files Problem: High Memory Consumption Readings Problem: MPI Application Hangs Problem: Password Required Problem: Cannot Execute Binary File Problem: MPI limitation for Docker*
Additional Supported Features x
Asynchronous Progress Control Multiple Endpoints Support
Multiple Endpoints Support x
MPI_THREAD_SPLIT Programming Model Threading Runtimes Support Program Examples Code Change Guide
Examples x
async_progress_sample.c thread_split.cpp thread_split_omp_for.c thread_split_omp_task.c thread_split_pthreads.c
Intel® MPI Library Developer Guide for Linux* OS

ILP64 Support

The term ILP64 denotes that integer, long, and pointer data entities all occupy 8 bytes. This differs from the more conventional LP64 model, in which only long and pointer data entities occupy 8 bytes while integer entities occupy 4 bytes. More information on the historical background and the programming model philosophy can be found, for example, in http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html

Intel® MPI Library provides support for the ILP64 model for Fortran applications. To enable the ILP64 mode, do the following:

Use the Fortran compiler wrapper option -i8 for separate compilation and the -ilp64 option for separate linking. For example: 

$ mpiifort -i8 -c test.f
$ mpiifort -ilp64 -o test test.o

For simple programs, use the Fortran compiler wrapper option -i8 for compilation and linkage. Specifying -i8 will automatically assume the ILP64 library. For example: 

$ mpiifort -i8 test.f

When running the application, use the -ilp64 option to preload the ILP64 interface. For example: 

$ mpirun -ilp64 -n 2 ./myprog

The following limitations are present in the Intel MPI Library in regard to this functionality:

  • Data type counts and other arguments with values larger than 231 - 1 are not supported.

  • Special MPI types MPI_FLOAT_INT, MPI_DOUBLE_INT, MPI_LONG_INT, MPI_SHORT_INT, MPI_2INT, MPI_LONG_DOUBLE_INT, MPI_2INTEGER are not changed and still use a 4-byte integer field.

  • Predefined communicator attributes MPI_APPNUM, MPI_HOST, MPI_IO, MPI_LASTUSEDCODE, MPI_TAG_UB, MPI_UNIVERSE_SIZE, and MPI_WTIME_IS_GLOBAL are returned by the functions MPI_GET_ATTR and MPI_COMM_GET_ATTR as 4-byte integers. The same holds for the predefined attributes that may be attached to the window and file objects.

  • Do not use the -i8 option to compile MPI callback functions, such as error handling functions, or user-defined reduction operations.

  • Do not use the -i8 option with the deprecated functions that store or retrieve the 4-byte integer attribute (for example, MPI_ATTR_GET, MPI_ATTR_PUT, etc.). Use their recommended alternatives instead (MPI_COMM_GET_ATTR, MPI_COMM_SET_ATTR, etc).

  • If you want to use the Intel® Trace Collector with the Intel MPI Library ILP64 executable files, you must use a special Intel Trace Collector library. If necessary, the mpiifort compiler wrapper will select the correct Intel Trace Collector library automatically.

  • There is currently no support for C and C++ applications.

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