Charm++ parallel programming system

[Vinicius Freitas <vinicius.mct.freitas AT gmail.com>]

Hello all,

I have been working with Charm++ and distributed load balancers for a few years now, and in this time, LeanMD has been my favorite mini-app to evaluate new LB strategies for several reasons. However, I have recently changed platforms into a larger experimental environment, and now am having problems with the application restarting after load balancing.

This issues seem to be exclusive to DistBaseLB, as they happen both with DistributedLB as well as with other in-house developed strategies. Even though our strategies (and Distributed) disregard unmigratable Chares, once LeanMD restarts, it issues a Segmentation Fault, which does not happen with centralized LBs, such as GreedyLB.

I will attach the machine configurations and application output in this situation. We have used Charm++ in checkout v6.9.0-rc3, and compiled it with mpicc. The loaded modules in the slurm environment are also attached.

Do you have any idea what could be causing this? How should we proceed to keep experimenting with LeanMD? Or should we disregard it completely? In the later case, are there other MD mini-apps you have been using in experimentation?

Thank you for your support and attention,

Regards,

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Vinicius Marino Calvo Torres de Freitas Computer Science Graduate Student (Aluno de pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação)

Research Assistant at the Embedded Computing Laboratory at UFSC (BR)

Research Intern at LRI at Univ. Paris-Sud (FR)

UFSC - CTC - INE - ECL, Brazil
Univ. Paris-Sud - LRI - ParSys, France
Email: vinicius.mctf AT posgrad.ufsc.br or vinicius.mct.freitas AT gmail.com Tel: +55 (48) 996 163 803

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