Distributed wait state tracking for runtime MPI deadlock detection

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Abstract

The widely used Message Passing Interface (MPI) with its multitude of communication functions is prone to usage errors. Runtime error detection tools aid in the removal of these errors. We develop MUST as one such tool that provides a wide variety of automatic correctness checks. Its correctness checks can be run in a distributed mode, except for its deadlock detection. This limitation applies to a wide range of tools that either use centralized detection algorithms or a timeout approach. In order to provide scalable and distributed deadlock detection with detailed insight into deadlock situations, we propose a model for MPI blocking conditions that we use to formulate a distributed algorithm. This algorithm implements scalable MPI deadlock detection in MUST. Stress tests at up to 4,096 processes demonstrate the scalability of our approach. Finally, overhead results for a complex benchmark suite demonstrate an average runtime increase of 34% at 2,048 processes.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSC '13: Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherIEEE, New York [u. a.]
Pages1-12
Number of pages12
ISBN (print)978-1-4503-2378-9
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title2013 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Abbreviated titleSC13
Conference number
Duration17 - 22 November 2013
Degree of recognitionInternational event
Location
CityDenver
CountryUnited States of America

External IDs

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ORCID /0000-0002-5321-9343/work/142236749

Keywords

Keywords

  • distributed wait state tracking, runtime MPI deadlock detection