[Beowulf] parallelization problem

[amjad ali]

Hi, all,



I am parallelizing a CFD 2D code in FORTRAN+OPENMPI. Suppose that the grid
(all triangles) is partitioned among 8 processes using METIS. Each process
has different number of neighboring processes. Suppose each process has n
elements/faces whose data it needs to sends to corresponding neighboring
processes, and it has m number of elements/faces on which it needs to get
data from corresponding neighboring processes. Values of n and m are
different for each process. Another aim is to hide the communication behind
computation. For this I do the following for each process:



DO j = 1 to n

CALL MPI_ISEND (send_data, num, type, dest(j), tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, ireq(j),
ierr)

ENDDO



DO k = 1 to m

CALL MPI_RECV(recv_data, num, type, source(k), tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, status,
ierr)

ENDDO





This solves my problem. But it gives memory leakage; RAM gets filled after
few thousands of iteration. What is the solution/remedy? How should I tackle
this?



In another CFD code I removed this problem of memory-filling by following
(in that code n=m) :



DO j = 1 to n

CALL MPI_ISEND (send_data, num, type, dest(j), tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, ireq(j),
ierr)

ENDDO



CALL MPI_WAITALL(n,ireq,status,ierr)



DO k = 1 to n

CALL MPI_RECV(recv_data, num, type, source(k), tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, status,
ierr)

ENDDO



But this is not working in current code; and the previous code was not
giving correct results with large number of processes.



Please suggest solution.



 THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION.



With best regards,

Amjad Ali.
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