[CHiPPS] Blis install error

Thu Apr 23 23:36:41 EDT 2009

I have run some milp models in Blis 0.9, but I found that the more processes I use, 

the longer run-time.

I run in this way:

mpiexec -1 -l -n 10 blis p0033.mps

                           Blis time         Blis time         Blis time
        cplex time     2 processes     6 processes    10 processes
p0033  0.04 sec      0.094985        0.280955        0.953854

                            Blis time       Blis time         Blis time
       cplex time     2 processes   10 processes    20 processes
bell5   0.85 sec        46.022         90                 111

Did I do something wrong ?  

How to make sure that I really use the number of processes that are indicated 
in the command line ? 

Only by Alps0050I Launched number of  processes  ? 

How to guarantee that the application program is really run in parallel on 
different processors not on one processor ? 

Any help is appreciated. 

thanks
April 23  2009 

From: Yan.Xu at sas.com
To: dtustudy68 at hotmail.com; chipps at list.coin-or.org
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:02:18 -0400
Subject: RE: Blis install error

In log, you can find

Reading in ALPS parameters ...

Reading in BLIS parameters ...

Alps0110I ALPS version 1.0 (Parallel, MPI)

Alps0050I Launched 2 processes

Alps0030I Data file: p0033.mps

Regards,

Yan

From: Jack Bryan
[mailto:dtustudy68 at hotmail.com] 

Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:56 PM

To: Yan Xu; chipps at list.coin-or.org

Subject: RE: Blis install error

thanks

I run blis in this way 

mpiexec -np 2  blis -par blis.par -Alps_instance p0033.mps

I have attached the result .

how to verify that I really use 2 processor to solve p0033.mps in parallel ?

thanks

From: Yan.Xu at sas.com

To: dtustudy68 at hotmail.com; chipps at list.coin-or.org

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:13:03 -0400

Subject: RE: Blis install error

There is a similar var.par file in Blis/examples/VRP. You can
adjust it for testing MILP.

I added a blis.par to Blis/test in the trunk version.

Regards,

Yan

From: Jack Bryan
[mailto:dtustudy68 at hotmail.com] 

Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:46 PM

To: Yan Xu; chipps at list.coin-or.org

Subject: RE: Blis install error

thanks

I need to use parallel Blis on a cluster with mpich2-1.0.8.

Following the instructions on INSTALL file, I can not get blis.par file. 

./configure --prefix=/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422 --enable-static
--disable-shared 

-with-mpi-incdir=/home/mpich2_install/include --with-mpi-lib='-L/home/mpich2_install/lib

-lmpich' MPICC=/home/mpich2_install/bin/mpicc
MPICXX=/home/mpich2_install/bin/mpicxx 

CXXDEFS='-DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK'

configure: Configuration of Blis successful

configure: Main configuration of Blis successful

------------------------------------

then make 

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis/src'

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis'

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis'

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis'

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9'

make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9'

----------------------------------------

then make install

make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis'

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis'

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis'

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9'

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9'

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9'

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9'

---------------------------------------

Any help is appreciated. 

thanks

April 23  2009 

From: Yan.Xu at sas.com

To: dtustudy68 at hotmail.com; chipps at list.coin-or.org

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:28:10 -0400

Subject: RE: Blis install error

“make test” doesn’t for MPI Blis. You have to manually test it.
Please see the the INSALL file for details.

Regards,

Yan

From: Jack Bryan
[mailto:dtustudy68 at hotmail.com] 

Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:53 PM

To: chipps at list.coin-or.org; Yan Xu

Subject: Blis install error

Hi,

I am trying to install Blis 0.9 on MPI cluster with MPICH2-1.0.8.

My configure: 

./configure --prefix=/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422 --enable-static 

--disable-shared -with-mpi-incdir=/home/jxding/mpich2_install/include 

--with-mpi-lib='-L/home/jxding/mpich2_install/lib -lmpich' 

MPICC=/home/mpich2_install/bin/mpicc 

MPICXX=/home/mpich2_install/bin/mpicxx CXXDEFS='-DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK'

configure: Configuration of Blis successful

configure: Main configuration of Blis successful

------------------------------------------------------

When I make test, I got error: 

Reading in ALPS parameters ...

Reading in BLIS parameters ...

Alps0110I ALPS version 1.0 (Parallel, MPI)

Alps0050I Launched 1 processes

Alps0030I Data file: ../../Data/Sample/p0033.mps

Coin0001I At line 15 NAME         
P0033

Coin0001I At line 16 ROWS

Coin0001I At line 34 COLUMNS

Coin0001I At line 109 RHS

Coin0001I At line 118 BOUNDS

Coin0001I At line 152 ENDATA

Coin0002I Problem P0033 has 16 rows, 33 columns and 98 elements

Bcps0001I BiCePS version 0.9

Blis0001I BLIS version 0.9

Blis0043I Objective coefficients are multiples of 1

hubNum_ <= 0

BLIS ERROR: "hubNum_ <= 0"

             from
function "initSearch"

             from
class "AlpsKnowledgeBrokerMPI"

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis/test'

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chipps_blics_svn_090422/Blis-0.9/Blis'

------------------------

Any help is appreciated. 

Jack

April  22  2009

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