Hi Niyaz,

With 5 processes and two hosts, by default it is equivalent to "-rankmap (vector,(0,2,5))​" or "-rankmap (vector,0,1,0,1,0)", which is the same with option "-ppn 1"-- a round-robin assignment of one process per host. The result is, rank 0,2,4 on the fist host and rank 1,3 on the second host. Let me know what is your desired rank ordering, I'll help you on the options.

You can use "-bind-to" to specify binding. Unfortunately, you only can specify the same binding policy for all hosts.

The option "-bind-to user:0+2,1+4,3,2" binds the first process to core 0 and 2, the 2nd process to core 1 and 4, the 3rd process to core 3, the 4th process to core 2. If there are only 3 or 2 processes on the node, the later binding specifications are ignored.

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Thank you Joachim and Hui. -rankmap {rank map} comma separated rank to node id list How is the format if I have 4 processes ? mpirun -prepend-rank -n 5 -hosts 192. 168. 2. 100,192. 168. 2. 200 hello-world How do I add rankmap to the above? Just add
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Thank you Joachim and Hui.

 

 

-rankmap {rank map} comma separated rank to node id list

How is the format if I have 4 processes ?

mpirun -prepend-rank -n 5 -hosts 192.168.2.100,192.168.2.200 hello-world

 

How do I add rankmap to the above? Just add ranks 0,1,2,3 after –rankmap?



Secondly, can I pin each of these 5 processes to a particular core?

Could you give an example of the “user” option?

user:0+2,1+4,3,2 -- user specified binding



does the above mean rank 0 will run on 2?

 

 

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>What Joachim points out is that you can set a rank of 2, 3, 20, 30 if your total number of processes is 4.

Of course, I meant for "can't".

Here are some additional pointers:
* The PR adding the rankmap option: https://github.com/pmodels/mpich/pull/6213
* Other options for specifying rank ordering and binding:https://github.com/pmodels/mpich/blob/main/doc/wiki/how_to/Using_the_Hydra_Process_Manager.md

Hui

 

 

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Subject: Re: Custom rank for processes

 

Hi Niyaz,

 

Yes, you can use the -rankmap​ option to specify a full rank ordering. The syntax for rankmap string is:

```
/* rankmap string format (used in PMI_process_mapping) in ABNF:

 *

 * mapping = '(' format ',' (block / block_repeats) *[',' (block / block_repeats)] ')'

 * format = 'vector'

 * block = num / '(' num ',' num ',' num ')'

 * block_repeats = '[' block *[',' block] ']x' num

 * num = 1*DIGIT

 *

 * If a block is in 3-tuple of (X,Y,Z), the meaning is:

 *     X - node id start value

 *     Y - number of nodes with size Z

 *     Z - number of processes assigned to each node

 *

 * If a block is a single number id, it denotes the node id, which is equivallen to

 * (id, 1, 1).

 *

 * A block_repeat repeats the bracketed block list by num of times.

 */
```

What Joachim points out is that you can set a rank of 2, 3, 20, 30 if your total number of processes is 4. You can only order the processes.

Hope that helps.

 

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MPI defines rank numbers to be consecutive from 0 to size-1. Your suggested numbering will not work.

-Joachim 

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Hello, Is it possible to provide custom ranks to processes ? I see a param called “-rankmap” .. Does it provide this option? Is it possible to do something like below : Node1 => 2 processes => rank 2,3 Node2 => 2 processes => rank

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Hello,

Is it possible to provide custom ranks to processes ?

I see a param called “-rankmap” .. Does it provide this option?

 

Is it possible to do something like below :

Node1 => 2 processes => rank 2,3

Node2 => 2 processes => rank 20,30

 

Thanks.