quo-vadis

This project is under active development and is currently not stable.

A next-generation, machine-independent coordination layer to arbitrate access among multiple runtime components and map tasks efficiently to heterogeneous architectures.

Building

mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make

Or, using ninja, perform the following:

mkdir build && cd build && cmake -G Ninja .. && ninja

Build Options

Below is a table of build options for quo-vadis. Options can be specified in a variety of ways using cmake or ccmake. For example,

cmake -DQV_GPU_SUPPORT=OFF -DQV_FORTRAN_SUPPORT=OFF ..

Option	Default	Comment
QV_FORTRAN_SUPPORT	ON	Toggle Fortran support
QV_GPU_SUPPORT	ON	Toggle GPU support
QV_MPI_SUPPORT	ON	Toggle MPI support
QV_OMP_SUPPORT	ON	Toggle OpenMP support
QV_MPI_PROCESSES_ARE_THREADS	FALSE	Affirm MPI processes are threads

Developer Build Options

Below is a table of build options for quo-vadis developers. Options can be specified in a variety of ways using cmake or ccmake. For example,

cmake -DQV_SANITIZE=address ..

Option	Default	Comment
QV_SANITIZE	none	Available: address;thread;undefined

Testing

ctest
# Or target a specific suite of tests
ctest -L core

Environment Variables

QV_PORT # The port number used for client/server communication.
QV_TMPDIR # Directory used for temporary files.

For developers and debugging:

HWLOC_XMLFILE # Path to system topology XML file.

Examples

# Set communication port
export QV_PORT=55996
# Launch the daemon
build/src/quo-vadisd &
# Run a test
mpiexec -n 2 build/tests/test-mpi-scopes

Internal Software Dependencies

• hwloc (https://github.com/open-mpi/hwloc)
• spdlog (https://github.com/gabime/spdlog)

External Software Dependencies

• ZeroMQ (https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq)
• An MPI-3 implementation (https://www.open-mpi.org, https://www.mpich.org)

Packaging for Developers

# To generate source distributions, run the following:
cd build
make package_source

Los Alamos National Laboratory Code Release

LA-CC-21-084