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<h1><span class="section-number">11.7.1. </span>Reducing startup time for jobs<a class="headerlink" href="#reducing-startup-time-for-jobs" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h1>
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<p>There are several ways to reduce the startup time on large
clusters. Some of them are described on this page. We continue to work
on making startup even faster, especially on the large clusters coming
in future years.</p>
<p>Open MPI v5.0.8 is significantly faster and more robust than its
predecessors. We recommend that anyone running large jobs and/or on
large clusters make the upgrade to the v5.0.x series.</p>
<p>Several major launch time enhancements have been made starting with the
v3.0 release. Most of these take place in the background — i.e., there
is nothing you (as a user) need do to take advantage of them. However,
there are a few that are left as options until we can assess any potential
negative impacts on different applications.</p>
<p>Some options are available when launching via <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span></code> or when launching using
the native resource manager launcher (e.g., <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">srun</span></code> in a Slurm environment).
These are activated by setting the corresponding MCA parameter, and include:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Setting the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pmix_base_async_modex</span></code> MCA parameter will eliminate a
global out-of-band collective operation during <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MPI_INIT</span></code>. This
operation is performed in order to share endpoint information prior
to communication. At scale, this operation can take some time and
scales at best logarithmically. Setting the parameter bypasses the
operation and causes the system to lookup the endpoint information
for a peer only at first message. Thus, instead of collecting
endpoint information for all processes, only the endpoint
information for those processes this peer communicates with will be
retrieved. The parameter is especially effective for applications
with sparse communication patterns — i.e., where a process
only communicates with a few other peers. Applications that use
dense communication patterns (i.e., where a peer communicates
directly to all other peers in the job) will probably see a negative
impact of this option.</p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This option is only available in PMIx-supporting
environments, or when launching via <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span></code></p>
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<li><p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">async_mpi_init</span></code> parameter is automatically set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">true</span></code>
when the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pmix_base_async_modex</span></code> parameter has been set, but can
also be independently controlled. When set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">true</span></code>, this parameter
causes <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MPI_Init</span></code> to skip an out-of-band barrier operation at the end
of the procedure that is not required whenever direct retrieval of
endpoint information is being used.</p></li>
<li><p>Similarly, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">async_mpi_finalize</span></code> parameter skips an out-of-band
barrier operation usually performed at the beginning of
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MPI_FINALIZE</span></code>. Some transports (e.g., the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">usnic</span></code> BTL) require this
barrier to ensure that all MPI messages are completed prior to
finalizing, while other transports handle this internally and thus
do not require the additional barrier. Check with your transport
provider to be sure, or you can experiment to determine the proper
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