Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#785 closed upgrade (Done)

Updated dynamic and automatic memory reporting

Reported by: arango Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: Release ROMS/TOMS 3.7
Component: Nonlinear Version: 3.7
Keywords: Cc:

Description (last modified by arango)

In src:ticket:783, I introduced the reporting of dynamic memory and automatic memory estimates for a particular ROMS application. There is still some memory requirements that are not accounted.

The reporting is now done at the end of the computations to allow for unaccounted automatic memory. A new variable BmemMax(ng) is introduced to track the maximum automatic buffer size used in distributed-memory (MPI) exchanges. In distributed-memory applications with serial I/O, the size of the automatic, temporary buffers needed for scattering/gathering of data increases as the ROMS grid size increases. It can become a memory bottleneck with the increasing of tile partitions since every parallel CPU allocates a full copy of the data array to process. The temporary buffers are automatically allocated on stack or heap. The user has the option to activate INLINE_2DIO to process 3D and 4D arrays as 2D-slabs to reduce the memory requirements. Alternatively, one can activate PARALLEL_IO if such hardware infrastructure is available.

A new subroutine, memory.F, is introduce to compute and report ROMS dynamic and automatic memory requirements. It is called from ROMS_finalize. That is, at the end of execution.

!
!  Report dynamic memory and automatic memory requirements.
!
!$OMP PARALLEL
      CALL memory
!$OMP END PARALLEL
!
!  Close IO files.
!
      CALL close_out

      RETURN
      END SUBROUTINE ROMS_finalize

For a three-nested grid MPI application, I get:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 Dynamic and Automatic memory (MB) usage for Grid 01:  240x104x40  tiling: 2x2

     tile          Dynamic        Automatic            USAGE      MPI-Buffers

        0           229.42            16.94           246.36             9.83
        1           230.56            16.94           247.51             9.83
        2           231.97            16.94           248.92             9.83
        3           233.14            16.94           250.08             9.83

      SUM           925.09            67.78           992.87            39.32

 Dynamic and Automatic memory (MB) usage for Grid 02:  204x216x40  tiling: 2x2

     tile          Dynamic        Automatic            USAGE      MPI-Buffers

        0           382.54            35.84           418.38            35.84
        1           380.54            35.84           416.38            35.84
        2           380.65            35.84           416.48            35.84
        3           378.66            35.84           414.50            35.84

      SUM          1522.40           143.34          1665.74           143.34

 Dynamic and Automatic memory (MB) usage for Grid 03:  276x252x40  tiling: 2x2

     tile          Dynamic        Automatic            USAGE      MPI-Buffers

        0           406.61            55.21           461.82            55.21
        1           404.30            55.21           459.50            55.21
        2           404.09            55.21           459.29            55.21
        3           401.79            55.21           456.99            55.21

      SUM          1616.79           220.83          1837.61           220.83

    TOTAL          4064.28           431.95          4496.23           403.50

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Notice that the last column reports the maximum size of the MPI-Buffers computed from BmemMax for each nested grid. It is the limiting factor in grids 2 and 3 since it is the same value reported in the Automatic column.

We will research third-party memory profiling software to see how accurated are the reported memory estimates.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by arango, 6 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: Done
Status: newclosed
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