1. Overview

The Intel Cluster Toolkit is a collection of MPI related tools, which is helpful when debugging, fine tuning and analyzing large MPI applications. ICT includes:

• Intel C++ Compiler 11.1
• Intel Debugger 11.1
• Intel MPI Library 3.2
• Intel MPI Benchmarks 3.2
• Intel Trace Analyzer1 and Trace Collector 7.2

2. Using ICT

Each of this parts and its use at the cluster environment in DESY Zeuthen is described next.

2.1. Setting up the environment

Intitialize the Intel compiler and Intel MPI environment: #!c ini ic openmpi_intel 

Initialize ICT environment:

 source /opt/intel/ict/3.2.2.013/ictvars.sh
 source /opt/products/bin/idbvars.sh
 source /opt/products/bin/ifortvars.sh
 source /opt/products/bin/iccvars.sh
 export IDB_HOME=/opt/products/bin/

2.2. Compiling MPI applications with Intel MPI

Add  LDFLAGS     = -L$(VT_LIB_DIR) -lmpi $(VT_ADD_LIBS)  to the IMB Makefile.

2.3. MPD daemons

Start MPD daemons on all hosts in mpd.hosts file:

# ./sshconnectivity.exp machines.LINUX
# mpdboot -n 4 --rsh=ssh -f ./mpd.hosts

2.4. Tracing information

Run an application for the trace analyzer:

# export VT_LOGFILE_FORMAT=STF;
# export VT_PCTRACE=5;
# export VT_PROCESS="0:N ON";
# export VT_LOGFILE_PREFIX=IMB-MPI1_inst;
# rm -fr $VT_LOGFILE_PREFIX; mkdir $VT_LOGFILE_PREFIX;
# mpiexec -n 2 itcpin --run -- ./IMB-MPI1 -npmin 2 PingPong;
# traceanalyzer ./IMB-MPI1_inst/IMB-MPI1.stf &;

2.5. Fine tuning

Invoke mpitune:

# mpitune -f machines.LINUX -o ./ --app mpiexec -genv MPIEXEC_DEBUG 1 -n 2 ./IMB-MPI1 -np 2 PingPong
# mpiexec -tune app.conf -n 4 ./IMB-MPI1 -np 2 PingPong 

2.6. Debugging

Start execution of the MPI program in debugging mode on 8 nodes each running 2 processes:

# mpiexec -idb -genv MPIEXEC_DEBUG 1 -n 8 ./IMB-MPI1 -np 2 PingPong