help with MPI and SLURM

[Markus Grassl <markus.grassl@ug.edu.pl>]

Hello,

I hope that someone here on the list can help me with the MPI version of 
PARI/gp in a SLURM environment.
I apologise if that was explained in the documentation and would like to 
ask for pointers to the respective parts.
In general, I don't have experience with MPI, so I hope I am just making 
stupid beginner's faults.

I did compile PARI from the sources using the option -mt=mpi into a 
directory ${HOME}/local-mpi/

Before trying to run gp, I have allocated 3 nodes in SLURM using

  salloc -N 3 -p partition

Then I have tried both "srun" and "mpirun" to execute "gp", and I have 
obtained the error messages below.

I suspect that something is missing in the local MPI installation so 
that I cannot execute gp.
Probably SLURM has to be reinstalled with the settings indicated by the 
first error message.

It would be useful to receive some hints which I then could pass on to 
our sysadmins.

Further, does anyone has a sample SLURM script that runs gp 
non-interactively on multiple nodes?


Thanks

Markus

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$ srun  ~/local-mpi/bin/gp

The application appears to have been direct launched using "srun",
but OMPI was not built with SLURM's PMI support and therefore cannot
execute. There are several options for building PMI support under
SLURM, depending upon the SLURM version you are using:

  version 16.05 or later: you can use SLURM's PMIx support. This
  requires that you configure and build SLURM --with-pmix.

  Versions earlier than 16.05: you must use either SLURM's PMI-1 or
  PMI-2 support. SLURM builds PMI-1 by default, or you can manually
  install PMI-2. You must then build Open MPI using --with-pmi pointing
  to the SLURM PMI library location.

Please configure as appropriate and try again.


$ mpirun  ~/local-mpi/bin/gp
  [dd-login:164917] PMIX-XFER-VALUE: UNSUPPORTED TYPE 28016
  [dd-login:164917] PMIX ERROR: ERROR in file server/pmix_server.c at 
line 322