Thanks for the quick reply.   Do you see this value increasing in the future?  In the meantime, I have a solution with less windows.  

Thanks,
Marvin



From:        "Oden, Lena" <loden@anl.gov>
To:        "discuss@mpich.org" <discuss@mpich.org>
Date:        09/19/2016 11:11 AM
Subject:        Re: [mpich-discuss] MPI Window limit on mpich



Hi Marvin,

currently, this is a limitation inside MPICH.
For every new window, MPICH internally creates a new communicator - for every communicator a new (unique) context ID is required -
and the number of different context IDs is limited to 2048.

This context-id/ communicator is required for internal synchronization (e.g. barriers) . We have to ensure, that his communication is
not interfering with other communication on other windows or communicators.

If you use more communicators, you should run into this problem earlier, because you already create other communicators
(the limit is per process)

Lena

On Sep 19, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Marvin Smith <Marvin.Smith@sncorp.com> wrote:

Good morning,

   I wanted to present an issue I am having with MPICH and validate whether this is a configuration problem, a limitation with MPICH, or a bug.

I am writing an application which uses a large number of MPI windows, each window is given a relatively large amount of memory.   This has never been a problem before, however we discovered if you allocate more than 2045 windows, you get an exception thrown.  

Notes:

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#-                                      Here is my output                                -#
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

mpirun -np 2 -hosts localhost ./mpi-win-test 2046 1
Initialized Rank: 0, Number Processors: 2, Hostname: test-machine
Initialized Rank: 1, Number Processors: 2, Hostname: test-machine
Fatal error in MPI_Win_create_dynamic: Other MPI error, error stack:
MPI_Win_create_dynamic(154)..........: MPI_Win_create_dynamic(MPI_INFO_NULL, MPI_COMM_WORLD, win=0x10c1464) failed
MPID_Win_create_dynamic(139).........:
win_init(254)........................:
MPIR_Comm_dup_impl(55)...............:
MPIR_Comm_copy(1552).................:
MPIR_Get_contextid(799)..............:
MPIR_Get_contextid_sparse_group(1146):  Cannot allocate context ID because of fragmentation (0/2048 free on this process; ignore_id=0)
Fatal error in MPI_Win_create_dynamic: Other MPI error, error stack:
MPI_Win_create_dynamic(154)..........: MPI_Win_create_dynamic(MPI_INFO_NULL, MPI_COMM_WORLD, win=0x19ef444) failed
MPID_Win_create_dynamic(139).........:
win_init(254)........................:
MPIR_Comm_dup_impl(55)...............:
MPIR_Comm_copy(1552).................:
MPIR_Get_contextid(799)..............:
MPIR_Get_contextid_sparse_group(1146):  Cannot allocate context ID because of fragmentation (0/2048 free on this process; ignore_id=0)

===================================================================================
=   BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES
=   EXIT CODE: 1
=   CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES
=   YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES
===================================================================================
make: *** [run] Error 1



#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#-                    Here is my Sample Makefile                                  -#
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

#  Path to mpich on RHEL7
MPI_INCL=-I/usr/include/mpich-x86_64
MPI_LIBS=-L/usr/lib64/mpich/lib -lmpich

#  C++11 Bindings (Being lazy with string)
CXX_ARGS=-std=c++11

#  Make th test
all: mpi-win-test

mpi-win-test: mpi-win-test.cpp
       g++ $< -o $@ $(MPI_INCL) $(MPI_LIBS) $(CXX_ARGS)


#  Args for application
NUM_WINDOWS=2046
USE_DYNAMIC=1

#  Sample run usage
#
#        Args:
#          - Number of Windows
#   - Type of windows (1 dynamic, 0 static)
run:
       mpirun -np 2 -hosts localhost ./mpi-win-test $(NUM_WINDOWS) $(USE_DYNAMIC)



#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#-                    Here is my Sample Application                        -#
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#


#include <mpi.h>

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
   // Number of MPI Windows
   int num_windows = std::stoi(argv[1]);

   bool use_dynamic = std::stoi(argv[2]);

   // Initialize MPI
   MPI_Init( &argc, &argv );

   // Get the rank and size
   int rank, nprocs;
   MPI_Comm_size( MPI_COMM_WORLD, &nprocs );
   MPI_Comm_rank( MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank );

   // Get the processor name
   char hostname[MPI_MAX_PROCESSOR_NAME];
   int hostname_len;
   MPI_Get_processor_name( hostname, &hostname_len);

   // Print Message
   for( int i=0; i<nprocs; i++ ){
       MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
       if( i == rank ){
           std::cout << "Initialized Rank: " << rank << ", Number Processors: " << nprocs << ", Hostname: " << hostname << std::endl;
       }
   }
   
   
   // MPI Variables
   vector<MPI_Aint>  sdisp_remotes(num_windows);
   vector<MPI_Aint>  sdisp_locals(num_windows);

   // Create MPI Windows
   vector<MPI_Win> windows(num_windows);
           
   int64_t buffer_size = 1000;
   char*   buffer = new char[buffer_size];

   for( int i=0; i<num_windows; i++ )
   {  
       if( use_dynamic )
       {
           MPI_Win_create_dynamic( MPI_INFO_NULL, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &windows[i] );
       }

       else
       {
           MPI_Win_create( &buffer,
                           buffer_size,
                           1,
                           MPI_INFO_NULL,
                           MPI_COMM_WORLD,
                           &windows[i] );
       }    
   }
       
       
   // Exception always occurs prior to reaching this point.
       
       
   // More Code Here that I am removing for brevity

   // Wait at the barrier
   MPI_Barrier( MPI_COMM_WORLD );

   // Remove all windows
   for( int i=0; i<num_windows; i++)
   {
       // Destroy the MPI Window
       MPI_Win_free( &windows[i] );
   }
   windows.clear();

   // Clear buffer
   delete [] buffer;
   buffer = nullptr;
       
   // Close MPI
   MPI_Finalize();

   return 0;
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#-                MPICH Version Output                   -#
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------#
MPICH Version:            3.0.4
MPICH Release date:        Wed Apr 24 10:08:10 CDT 2013
MPICH Device:            ch3:nemesis
MPICH configure:         --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-sharedlibs=gcc --enable-shared --enable-lib-depend --disable-rpath --enable-fc --with-device=ch3:nemesis --with-pm=hydra:gforker --sysconfdir=/etc/mpich-x86_64 --includedir=/usr/include/mpich-x86_64 --bindir=/usr/lib64/mpich/bin --libdir=/usr/lib64/mpich/lib --datadir=/usr/share/mpich --mandir=/usr/share/man/mpich --docdir=/usr/share/mpich/doc --htmldir=/usr/share/mpich/doc --with-hwloc-prefix=system FC=gfortran F77=gfortran CFLAGS=-m64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC CXXFLAGS=-m64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC FCFLAGS=-m64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC FFLAGS=-m64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,noexecstack MPICH2LIB_CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic MPICH2LIB_CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic MPICH2LIB_FCFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic MPICH2LIB_FFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic
MPICH CC:         cc -m64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC   -O2
MPICH CXX:         c++ -m64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC  -O2
MPICH F77:         gfortran -m64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC  -O2
MPICH FC:         gfortran -m64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC  -O2
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