GPU Support
In addition to GPU pinning, the Intel MPI Library supports GPU buffers (see below).
GPU Pinning
Use this feature to distribute Intel GPU devices between MPI ranks.
To enable this feature, set
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_TOPOLIB=level_zero
. This feature requires that the Level-Zero* library be installed on the nodes. The device pinning information is printed out in the Intel MPI debug output at
I_MPI_DEBUG=3
.
Default settings:
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_CELL=tile
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN_SIZE=-1
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICES=all
By default, all available resources are distributed between MPI ranks as equally as possible given the position of the ranks; that is, the distribution of resources takes into account on which NUMA node the rank and the resource are located. Ideally, the rank will have resources only on the same NUMA node on which the rank is located.
Examples
All examples below represent a machine configuration with two NUMA nodes and two GPUs with two tiles.
Figure 1. Four MPI Ranks
Debug output I_MPI_DEBUG=3:
[0] MPI startup(): ===== GPU pinning on host1 =====
[0] MPI startup(): Rank Pin tile
[0] MPI startup(): 0 {0}
[0] MPI startup(): 1 {1}
[0] MPI startup(): 2 {2}
[0] MPI startup(): 3 {3}
Figure 2. Three MPI Ranks
Debug output
I_MPI_DEBUG=3
:
[0] MPI startup(): ===== GPU pinning on host1 =====
[0] MPI startup(): Rank Pin tile
[0] MPI startup(): 0 {0}
[0] MPI startup(): 1 {1}
[0] MPI startup(): 2 {2,3}
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_TOPOLIB
Set the interface for GPU topology recognition.
Syntax
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_TOPOLIB=<
arg
>Arguments
<
String parameter.
arg
>level_zero
Use Level-Zero library for GPU topology recognition.
Description
Set this environment variable to define the interface for GPU topology recognition. Setting this variable enables the GPU Pinning feature.
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_LEVEL_ZERO_LIBRARY
Specify the name and full path to the Level-Zero library.
Syntax
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_LEVEL_ZERO_LIBRARY="<path>/<name>"
Arguments
<
Full path to the Level-Zero library.
path
><
Name of the Level-Zero library.
name
>Description
Set this environment variable to specify the name and full path to Level-Zero library. Set this variable if Level-Zero is not located in the default path. Default value:
libze_loader.so
.
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_CELL
Set this variable to define the base unit: tile (subdevice) or device (GPU).
Syntax
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_CELL=<cell>
Arguments
<cell>
Specify the base unit.
tile
One tile (subdevice). Default value.
device
Whole device (GPU) with all subdevices
Description
Set this variable to define the base unit. This variable may affect other GPU pinning variables.
Example
Figure 3. Four MPI ranks, I_MPI_OFFLOAD_CELL=device
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN_SIZE
Control the number of base units per MPI rank.
Syntax
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN_SIZE=<
value
>Arguments
<> Integer number.
value
-1
Auto. Default value. Each MPI rank may have a different domain size to use all available resources.
> 0
Custom domain size.
Description
Set this variable to define how many base units will be pinned to the MPI rank. I_MPI_OFFLOAD_CELL variable defines the base unit: tile or device.
Examples
Figure 4. Three MPI ranks, I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN_SIZE=1
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICES
Define a list of available devices.
Syntax
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICES=<
devicelist
>Arguments
<
A comma-separated list of available devices.
devicelist
>all
<
Device with logical number
l
><
.
l
><
Range of devices with logical numbers from
l
>-<m
><
to
l
><
.
m
><
Device <k
>,<l
>-<m
>k
> and devices from
<
to
l
><
.
m
>Description
Set this variable to define the available devices. This variable also gives you the ability to exclude devices.
Example
Figure 5. Four MPI ranks, I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICES=0
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICE_LIST
Define a list of base units to pin for each MPI rank.
Syntax
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICE_LIST=<base_units_list>
Arguments
<base_units_list>
A comma-separated list of base units. The process with the i-th rank is pinned to the i-th base unit in the list.
<l>
Base unit with logical number
<l>
.
<l>-<m>
Range of base units with logical numbers from
<l>
to
<m>
.
<k>,<l>-<m>
Base unit
<k>
and base units from
<l>
to
<m>
.
Description
Set this variable to define the list of base units to pin for each MPI rank. The process with the i-th rank is pinned to the i-th base unit in the list.
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_CELL variable defines the base unit: tile or device.
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICE_LIST variable has less priority than the I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN variable.
Example
Figure 6. Four MPI ranks, I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICE_LIST=3,2,0,1
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN
Define domains through the comma separated list of hexadecimal numbers for each MPI rank.
Syntax
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN=<
masklist
>Arguments
<
masklist
> A comma-separated list of hexadecimal numbers.
[m1,...,mn ]
For
<
, each mi is a hexadecimal bit mask defining an individual domain.
masklist
>The following rule is used: the i-th base unit is included into the domain if the corresponding bit in mi value is set to 1.
Description
Set this variable to define the list of hexadecimal bit masks. For the i-th bit mask, if the j-th bit set to 1, then the j-th base unit will be pinned to the i-th MPI rank.
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_CELL variable defines the base unit: tile or device.
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN variable has higher priority than the I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DEVICE_LIST.
Example
Figure 7. Four MPI ranks, I_MPI_OFFLOAD_DOMAIN=[B,2,5,C]. Parsed bit masks: [1101,0100,1010,0011]
GPU Buffers Support
I_MPI_OFFLOAD
Syntax
I_MPI_OFFLOAD=<
value
>Arguments
Value
| Integer Number
|
|---|---|
0
| Disabled (default value)
|
1
| Auto. Intel MPI expects that libze_loader.so is already loaded and does not load it twice
|
2
| Enabled. Intel MPI loads libze_loader.so
|
Description
Set this variable to enable handling of device buffers in MPI functions such as
MPI_Send
,
MPI_Recv
,
MPI_Bcast
,
MPI_Allreduce
, and so on by using the Level Zero library specified in the
I_MPI_OFFLOAD_LEVEL_ZERO_LIBRARY
variable.
In order to pass a pointer of an offloaded memory region to MPI, you may need to use specific compiler directives or get it from corresponding acceleration runtime API. For example,
use_device_ptr
and
use_device_addr
are useful keywords to obtain device pointers in the OpenMP environment, as shown in the following code sample:
/* Copy data from host to device */ #pragma omp target data map(to: rank, values[0:num_values]) use_device_ptr(values) { /* Compute something on device */ #pragma omp target parallel for is_device_ptr(values) for (unsigned i = 0; i < num_values; ++i) { values[i] *= (rank + 1); } /* Send device buffer to another rank */ MPI_Send(values, num_values, MPI_INT, dest_rank, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD); }