amjad ali wrote:
Hello All,
I am developing my parallel CFD code on a small cluster. My system has
openmpi installed based on gfortran compiler. Please guide me
follwing:
(1) Which debugger would be easy and effective to use for above?
Hi Amjad
MPI generally makes debugging much harder. If you want to use a GUI
type debugger, I am only aware of commercial debuggers for MPI. This
includes the Allinea DDT tool, and the TotalView Debugger. You can
always use gdb, though this is (unfortunately) quite hard with MPI. The
ddd debugger interfaces with gdb, and while good itself as a GUI, it
doesn't quite understand MPI.
(2) Which of the folliwng two ways of using arrays is more efficient
with respect to memory and function-call-overheads or other overheads:
(i) We should keep the arrays ALLOCATABLE and then
before return from the subroutines, DEALLOCATE the local arrays.
or (ii) We should keep the local arrays fix-sized as
much as we can. (Will the memory is deallaocated/freed automatically
on return from the subroutine?).
Hmm.... I would generally advise avoiding allocations
(creating/destroying arrays) in "inner loops" or more than a few times
on each thread/rank. Fixed sized arrays are ... dinosaurs from the
1960's fortran. You have allocatable, you can (and should) use it.
Just don't overuse it (by creating and destroying arrays millions of
times in inner loops)
Thanks.
with best regards,
Amjad Ali.
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