Parallel Julia

Find julia module

Load Julia from module system (eg):

Use module spider julia and find a version.

Example:

module load Julia/1.7.2-linux-x86_64

Install MPI for Julia on login node (only once)

Before starting julia set enviroment variable to local folder (HOME) as eg

export JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=./juliapackages/

Start julia: $julia

julia>import Pkg

julia>Pkg.add("MPI")

Test installation:

julia>using MPI (if no error message it works)

Exit Julia:

julia>exit()

Run MPI Julia

Job script (example): (file name eg job.sh)

!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -J job                  # Sensible name for the job
#SBATCH --account=<my account>
#SBATCH -N 2                    # Allocate 2 nodes for the job
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH -c 20                   # 20 cores each node
#SBATCH -t 00:10:00             # Upper time limit for the job
#SBATCH -p CPUQ

module load foss/2022a
module load Julia/1.7.2-linux-x86_64

WORKDIR=${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}
cd ${WORKDIR}
srun julia mympiprogram.jl

Example Juila MPI program (mympiprogram.jl)

using MPI

MPI.Init()
comm=MPI.COMM_WORLD
ranks=MPI.Comm_size(comm)
rank=MPI.Comm_rank(comm)
print("Hello world from rank $(rank) of $(ranks)\n")

Run your mpi program

sbatch job.sh

Check job status

squeue -u username

Cancel job

scancel jobid

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