Yellowstone Tutorial

Computing at NCAR

  • Mesa Lab decommissioning schedule
    • Bluefire decomissioned January 31, 2013
      • ?/ptmp  read-only as of January 14
    • Mirage & Storm (Analysis machines) decommissioned February 28
    • /glade file systems decommissioned March 31
  • Yellowstone & NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center

Using Yellowstone

LTR

  • About
  • Download
  • Setup
    • All prerequisites are already built. The code is shipped with the appropriate machine configuration (see env/Make.yellowstone). To build the code, you need to set up some modules & environment variables:
    • Modules: It's probably a good idea to just set your environment to load all the appropriate modules by default. Here's how you do that: 
      module purge
module load intel/12.1.5 ncarenv ncarcompilers python all-python-libs
module setdefault
    • Environment Variables: Set the following at login/startup: 
      export MACHINE=yellowstone

export LTRROOT=??????
export PATH=${LTRROOT}/misc/python:${PATH}
export PATH=${LTRROOT}/misc/pyLTR/scripts:${PATH}
export PYTHONPATH=${LTRROOT}/misc/pyLTR:${PYTHONPATH}
export TGCMDATA=/glade/u/home/schmitt/tgcmdata
    • Compile 
      gmake LFM-MIX RESOLUTION=single
  • Execution
    • MakeItSo
      • updated for 2.2.0; scripts are not necessarily backwards-compatible
      • MPMD job scripts
    • Solar Wind Files & Solar Wind Processor
    • Typical Performance on Yellowstone:

      Resolution

      Name

      Core count

      Performance

      53-24-32

      single

      8

      1/6 faster than real time

      53-48-64

      double

      24

      2/3 faster than realtime

      106-96-128

      quad

      144

      4x slower than realtime

  • Postprocessing
    • Interactive job on Geyser 
      bsub -XF -Ip -q geyser -W 1:00 -n 1 -P P28100045 /bin/bash
    • pyLTR
    • ParaView
    • CISM_DX

Yellowstone Performance

Here are some rough performance numbers to anticipate. Note that these are rough estimates for standard solar wind input. The LFM uses a variable timestep and your results may vary, especially for high speed flows.

Resolution

Grid

Core count

Performance

Single Resolution

53x24x32

8

1.33 core hours per simulated hour

Double Resolution

53x48x64

24

16 core hours per simulated hour

Quad Resolution

106x96x128

144

576 core hours per simulated hour

How do I debug my code with TotalView?

There are a few simple steps to run your code with the TotalView debugger:

  1. Load debugging modules 
    module load debug totalview
  2. Compile your code with debugging flags enabled. For the LFM, edit env/Make.yellowstone and set 
    OPTLVL = -g -traceback -debug full
TRAP  =  -fp-stack-check -fstack-security-check -ftrapuv
  3. Edit job run script, adding the following three lines to the LSF/BSUB settings near the top: 
    #BSUB -XF   # X11 forwarding
#BSUB -Ip   # interactive job
#BSUB -a tv # select the tv elim
  4. Now submit your job script via bsub

Here's a complete sample job script to run one binary (LFM) with TotalView:

#!/bin/sh
#BSUB -J totalview
#BSUB -o totalview.%j.output
#BSUB -e totalview.%j.error
#BSUB -XF   # X11 forwarding
#BSUB -Ip   # interactive job
#BSUB -a tv # select the tv elim
#BSUB -n 24
#BSUB -R "span[ptile=16]"
#BSUB -W 01:00
#BSUB -q small
#BSUB -P xxxxxxxxx
#BSUB -R "select[scratch_ok > 0]"

# Setup
#source /glade/u/home/schmitt/opt-intel-12.1.4/InterComm-2.0/lib/build.env
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/glade/u/home/schmitt/opt-intel-12.1.4/overture/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
ln -sf INPUT1-001.xml INPUT1.xml

# Executable to run TotalView with
mpirun.lsf ./LFM  < /dev/null > totalview.out 2>&1

Troubleshooting

If you get an error like

Job <876021> is submitted to queue <small>.
<<ssh X11 forwarding job>>
<<Waiting for dispatch ...>>
Warning: Permanently added '10.12.2.17' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
lyon@10.12.2.17's password:

then you need to reset your SSH keys. CISL wrote a script to reset your keys, execute this:

/glade/u/home/siliu/bin/ssh-auth.bash

Resources

Presentation slides

  File Modified
Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation IntroductionToYellowstone.pptx Jan 15, 2013 by Peter Schmitt
PDF File IntroductionToYellowstone.pdf Jan 15, 2013 by Peter Schmitt
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