addprocs_slurm() fails since Julia 0.5

[juliaparallel]

addprocs_slurm() fails since Julia 0.5

[amitmurthy]

I just pushed another update to amitm/debug which uses Base.start_worker in srun_cmd instead of --worker option. Can you try with that and also post the debug output here?

[andreasnoack]

Do you have more than one version of Julia installed?

[amitmurthy]

This is most probably due to the workers being 0.4 and the master 0.5 .
Or the other way around.

[axsk]

I have just the official 0.5 precompiled binary of Julia on all systems.
I just rechecked and there is no other version of Julia flying around anywhere.

julia also runs fine on the workers when started manually.

Edit: I had 0.4.6 and 0.5.0 installed previously, then removed 0.4.6 and tried again with the same result.

[axsk]

I just tested using ClusterManagers; addprocs_slurm(1) with 0.4.7, and there it runs flawlessly.

[amitmurthy]

Have you done a Pkg.update() on 0.5 ? You will need a compatible version of ClusterManagers too.

[axsk]

I did Pkg.update(). I also tried Pkg.checkout for ClusterManagers, with the same result.

[amitmurthy]

Unfortunately I don't have access to a SLURM setup to try this out. Can you post any output from the dead worker. I think it is written as jobN.out files in the CWD on the login node.

Ref:

ClusterManagers.jl/src/slurm.jl

Line 49 in 00b1139

fn = "$exehome/job$(lpad(i, 4, "0")).out"

[dmbates]

I found that addprocs_slurm(n) failed for me but addprocs(SlurmManager(n),...) worked.

[axsk]

Here the job0000.out:

julia_worker:9009#(theip)
ErrorException("Process(1) - Invalid connection credentials sent by remote.")CapturedException(ErrorException("Process(1) - Invalid connection credentials sent by remote."),Any[( in process_hdr(::TCPSocket, ::Bool) at multi.jl:1400,1),( in message_handler_loop(::TCPSocket, ::TCPSocket, ::Bool) at multi.jl:1299,1),( in process_tcp_streams(::TCPSocket, ::TCPSocket, ::Bool) at multi.jl:1276,1),( in (::Base.##618#619{TCPSocket,TCPSocket,Bool})() at event.jl:68,1)])
Process(1) - Unknown remote, closing connection.
Master process (id 1) could not connect within 60.0 seconds.
exiting.

I experience no difference between addprocs_slurm(n) and addprocs(SlurmManager(n))

[amitmurthy]

Can you checkout branch amitm/debug and try? I have added a couple of debug statements which prints the local cookie and the slurm command.

[axsk]

Here are the results:

cookie: 2UPo2qVQVRPUhqRD
VERSION: 0.5.0
worker_arg: `--worker 2UPo2qVQVRPUhqRD`
srun_cmd: `srun -J julia-29603 -n 1 -o job%4t.out -D /nfs/numerik/bzfsikor /nfs/datanumerik/bzfsikor/julia/julia-0.5.0/julia-3c9d75391c/bin/julia --worker 2UPo2qVQVRPUhqRD`

[axsk]

Seems you had the right nose here, it is working now :)

julia> using ClusterManagers; addprocs_slurm(1)
srun_cmd: `srun -J julia-19892 -n 1 -o job%4t.out -D /nfs/datanumerik/bzfsikor/julia/pkgdir/v0.5/ClusterManagers /nfs/datanumerik/bzfsikor/julia/julia-0.5.0/julia-3c9d75391c/bin/julia -e 'Base.start_worker("1E5ahz7GRYCxfGs8")'`
srun: job 1103 queued and waiting for resources
srun: job 1103 has been allocated resources

1-element Array{Int64,1}:
 2

So there is something wrong with the --worker command line option? Strange nobody else had problems...

[amitmurthy]

Maybe it has something to do with the local environment on your cluster. What is the locale on the worker nodes? Non-english language?

@vtjnash : do you have any ideas as to what could be the problem here?

The cookie is being passed as a required arg with --worker and is read here - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/0faf8ce200103839577171d28a4d1545fa827336/base/client.jl#L224

The comparison which is failing on @axsk 's system is here - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/0faf8ce200103839577171d28a4d1545fa827336/base/multi.jl#L1402-L1406 - basically the cookie read from the command line is compared to the one read from the socket.

@axsk : are you open to building julia from source for the workers? I can provide a patch with appropriate debug statements to track down this issue.

[axsk]

locale returns en_US.UTF-8 everywhere.

I'm open to building julia with the debug statetemets, but probably not today anymore, since I now got enough work with actually running the code I needed on the cluster :)

[axsk]

Here I am with another update:

I reinstalled all the packages (now on Julia 0.5.2), hence the Base.start_worker patch is gone.
The bug returned, i.e. I get the same version read error, but it only happens in about 50% of the times I try to run addprocs.

[juliohm]

Too old to reproduce. Please check the new release.