Re: [Boost-mpi] openmpi 1.6.2 boost 1.54 mswin7 vs2010 Threading support:No

Subject: Re: [Boost-mpi] openmpi 1.6.2 boost 1.54 mswin7 vs2010 Threading support:No
From: MM (finjulhich_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-13 15:23:17

my ompi_info says  (openmpi)
Threading support: No

Does that mean it's not supported?

If so, what to do?

On 13 February 2014 17:00, Matthias Troyer <troyer_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Feb 13, 2014, at 17:44, MM <finjulhich_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On 13 February 2014 15:33, Matthias Troyer <troyer_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> In orders to use MPI in a multi-threaded environment, even when only one
>> thread uses MPI, you need to request the necessary level of thread support
>> in the environment constructor. Then you'd an check whether your MPI
>> implementation supports multi threading. Note that using MPI the way you do
>> need not work even though it seems safe at first sight. One reason is that
>> your MPI implementation might use threads internally to support, e.g.
>> nonblocking calls and those threads might not be compatible with your
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>> Matthias
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>> So in my case, as I have a main thread that doesn't call MPI, and another
> purposely created user thread to call MPI  lib, the mode is
> MPI_THREAD_FUNNELLED ?
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> as boost 1.54 doesn't have the level in the enviroment ctor, I need to
> explicitly call the underlying MPI::Init_thread(MPI_THREAD_FUNNELED).
> once I move to 1.55, I'll use the env ctor.
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> You need MPI_THREAD_SERIALIZED since it is not the main thread which is
> doing the MPI communication. Be sure to check whether that level is
> actually supported.
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> Matthias
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