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<h1><span class="section-number">11.7.2. </span>Libraries<a class="headerlink" href="#libraries" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h1>
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<h2><span class="section-number">11.7.2.1. </span>Location: network vs. local filesystems<a class="headerlink" href="#location-network-vs-local-filesystems" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Open MPI itself doesn’t really care where its libraries and plugins
are stored. However, where they are stored does have an impact on
startup times, particularly for large clusters, which can be mitigated
somewhat through use of Open MPI’s configuration options.</p>
<p>Startup times will always be minimized by storing the libraries and
plugins local to each node, either on local disk or in ramdisk. The
latter is sometimes problematic since the libraries do consume some
space, thus potentially reducing memory that would have been available
for MPI processes.</p>
<p>There are two main considerations for large clusters that need to
place the Open MPI libraries on networked file systems:</p>
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<li><p>While dynamic shared objects (“DSO”) are more flexible, you
definitely do <em>not</em> want to use them when the Open MPI libraries
will be mounted on a network file system that is shared to a large
cluster! Doing so will lead to significant network traffic and
delayed start times, especially on clusters with a large number of
nodes. Instead, be sure to <a class="reference internal" href="../../installing-open-mpi/configure-cli-options/installation.html#building-ompi-cli-options-diable-dlopen-label"><span class="std std-ref">configure your build</span></a> with
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--disable-dlopen</span></code>. This will include the DSO’s in the main
libraries, resulting in much faster startup times.</p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>As of the Open MPI v5.0.x series, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--disable-dlopen</span></code> is
now the default.</p>
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<li><p>Many networked file systems use automount for user level
directories, as well as for some locally administered system
directories. There are many reasons why system administrators may
choose to automount such directories. MPI jobs, however, tend to
launch very quickly, thereby creating a situation wherein a large
number of nodes will nearly simultaneously demand automount of a
specific directory. This can overload NFS servers, resulting in
delayed response or even failed automount requests.</p>
<p>Note that this applies to both automount of directories containing
Open MPI libraries as well as directories containing user
applications. Since these are unlikely to be the same location,
multiple automount requests from each node are possible, thus
increasing the level of traffic.</p>
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<p>It is perfectly fine to use either shared or static
libraries. Shared libraries will save memory when operating multiple
processes per node, especially on clusters with high numbers of cores
on a node, but can also take longer to launch on networked file
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