JaxPM/notebooks/06-Animating_PM_Fields.ipynb

Multi-Host Particle Mesh Simulation¶

In this notebook, we extend our Particle Mesh simulation across multiple nodes, enabling simulations at scales not achievable on a single machine. By leveraging distributed GPUs across hosts, we handle larger mesh shapes and box sizes efficiently.

Note: Since there’s no direct way to run a multi-host notebook, I’ll guide you step by step on how to submit an interactive job from a script.

To run a multi-host simulation, you first need to allocate a job with salloc. This command requests resources on an HPC cluster.

Note: You can alternatively use sbatch with a SLURM script to submit the job. The exact salloc parameters may vary depending on your specific HPC cluster configuration.

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!salloc --account=XXX@a100 -C a100 --gres=gpu:8 --ntasks-per-node=8 --time=00:40:00  --cpus-per-task=8 --hint=nomultithread --qos=qos_gpu-dev --nodes=4 &

Note: These salloc parameters are configured for the Jean Zay supercomputer in France. Adaptations might be necessary if using a different HPC cluster.

A few hours later

Use !squeue -u $USER -o "%i %D %b" to check the JOB ID and verify your resource allocation.

In this example, we’ve been allocated 32 GPUs split across 4 nodes.

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!squeue -u $USER -o "%i %D %b"

JOBID NODES TRES_PER_NODE
467745 4 gres/gpu:8

Unset the following environment variables, as they can cause issues when using JAX in a distributed setting:

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import os
del os.environ['VSCODE_PROXY_URI']
del os.environ['NO_PROXY']
del os.environ['no_proxy']

Checking Available Compute Resources¶

Run the following command to initialize JAX distributed computing and display the devices available for this job:

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!srun --jobid=467745 -n 32 python -c "import jax; jax.distributed.initialize(); print(jax.devices()) if jax.process_index() == 0 else None"

[CudaDevice(id=0), CudaDevice(id=1), CudaDevice(id=2), CudaDevice(id=3), CudaDevice(id=4), CudaDevice(id=5), CudaDevice(id=6), CudaDevice(id=7), CudaDevice(id=8), CudaDevice(id=9), CudaDevice(id=10), CudaDevice(id=11), CudaDevice(id=12), CudaDevice(id=13), CudaDevice(id=14), CudaDevice(id=15), CudaDevice(id=16), CudaDevice(id=17), CudaDevice(id=18), CudaDevice(id=19), CudaDevice(id=20), CudaDevice(id=21), CudaDevice(id=22), CudaDevice(id=23), CudaDevice(id=24), CudaDevice(id=25), CudaDevice(id=26), CudaDevice(id=27), CudaDevice(id=28), CudaDevice(id=29), CudaDevice(id=30), CudaDevice(id=31)]

Running the Multi-Host Simulation Script¶

Run the simulation script across 32 processes:

!srun --jobid=467745 -n 32 python 05-MultiHost_PM.py --mesh_shape 1024 1024 1024 --box_size 1000. 1000. 1000. --halo_size 128 -s leapfrog --pdims 16 2

The script, located in the same path as this notebook, is named 05-MultiHost_PM.py.

Multi-Host Simulation Script with Arguments¶

This script is nearly identical to the single-host version, with the main addition being the call to jax.distributed.initialize() at the start, enabling multi-host parallelism. Here’s a breakdown of the key arguments:

• --pdims (-p): Specifies processor grid dimensions as two integers, like 16 2 for 16 x 2 device mesh (default is [1, jax.devices()]).
• --mesh_shape (-m): Defines the simulation mesh shape as three integers (default is [512, 512, 512]).
• --box_size (-b): Sets the physical box size of the simulation as three floating-point values, e.g., 1000. 1000. 1000. (default is [500.0, 500.0, 500.0]).
• --halo_size (-H): Specifies the halo size for boundary overlap across nodes (default is 64).
• --solver (-s): Chooses the ODE solver (leapfrog or dopri8). The leapfrog solver uses a fixed step size, while dopri8 is an adaptive Runge-Kutta solver with a PID controller (default is leapfrog).
• --snapthots (-st) : Number of snapshots to save (warning, increases memory usage)

The script also saves results across nodes.

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import subprocess

# Define parameters as variables
jobid = "467745"
num_processes = 32
script_name = "05-MultiHost_PM.py"
mesh_shape = (1024, 1024, 1024)
box_size = (1000., 1000., 1000.)
halo_size = 128
solver = "leapfrog"
pdims = (16, 2)
snapshots = 2

# Build the command as a list, incorporating variables
command = [
    "srun",
    f"--jobid={jobid}",
    "-n", str(num_processes),
    "python", script_name,
    "--mesh_shape", str(mesh_shape[0]), str(mesh_shape[1]), str(mesh_shape[2]),
    "--box_size", str(box_size[0]), str(box_size[1]), str(box_size[2]),
    "--halo_size", str(halo_size),
    "-s", solver,
    "--pdims", str(pdims[0]), str(pdims[1]),
    "--snapshots", str(snapshots)
]

# Execute the command as a subprocess
subprocess.run(command)

Loading and Visualizing Results¶

After running the multi-host simulation, we load the saved results from disk:

• initial_conditions.npy: Initial conditions for the simulation.
• lpt_displacements.npy: Linear perturbation displacements.
• ode_solution_0.npy and ode_solution_1.npy: Solutions from the ODE solver at each snapshot.

We then use plot_fields_single_projection to visualize these fields and observe the results across multiple snapshots.

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import numpy as np

initial_conditions = np.load('fields/initial_conditions.npy')
lpt_displacements = np.load('fields/lpt_displacements.npy')
ode_solution_0 = np.load('fields/ode_solution_0.npy')
ode_solution_1 = np.load('fields/ode_solution_1.npy')

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from jaxpm.plotting import plot_fields_single_projection
fields = {
    "Initial Conditions": initial_conditions,
    "LPT Field": lpt_displacements,
    "ODE Solution 0": ode_solution_0,
    "ODE Solution 1": ode_solution_1
}
plot_fields_single_projection(fields)