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# Distributed traces (MPI)
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The ovni trace is designed to support concurrent programs running in different
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nodes in a cluster. It is often the case that the monotonic clock
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(`CLOCK_MONOTONIC`) are not synchronized between machines (in general they
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measure the time since boot).
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To generate a coherent Paraver trace, the offsets of the clocks need to be
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provided to the emulator too. To do so, run the `ovnisync` program using MPI on
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the same nodes your workload will use.
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!!! warning
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Run only one MPI process of ovnisync per node.
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If you are using SLURM, you may want to use something like:
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% srun ./application
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% srun --ntasks-per-node=1 ovnisync
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!!! warning
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Beware that you cannot launch two MPI programs inside the same srun session,
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you must invoke srun twice.
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By default, it will generate the `ovni/clock-offsets.txt` file, with the
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relative offsets to the rank 0 of MPI. The emulator will automatically pick the
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offsets when processing the trace. Use the ovnisync `-o` option to select a
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different output path (see the `-c` option in ovniemu to load the file).
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Here is an example table with three nodes, all units are in nanoseconds. The
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standard deviation is less than 1 us:
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```
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rank hostname offset_median offset_mean offset_std
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0 xeon01 0 0.000000 0.000000
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1 xeon04 1165382584 1165382582.900000 135.286341
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2 xeon05 3118113507 3118113599.070000 180.571610
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```
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