Configuration
Parsl separates program logic from execution configuration, enabling
programs to be developed entirely independently from their execution
environment. Configuration is described by a Python object (Config)
so that developers can
introspect permissible options, validate settings, and retrieve/edit
configurations dynamically during execution. A configuration object specifies
details of the provider, executors, connection channel, allocation size,
queues, durations, and data management options.
The following example shows a basic configuration object (Config) for the Frontera
supercomputer at TACC.
This config uses the parsl.executors.HighThroughputExecutor to submit
tasks from a login node (parsl.channels.LocalChannel). It requests an allocation of
128 nodes, deploying 1 worker for each of the 56 cores per node, from the normal partition.
To limit network connections to just the internal network the config specifies the address
used by the infiniband interface with address_by_interface('ib0')
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.channels import LocalChannel
from parsl.providers import SlurmProvider
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.launchers import SrunLauncher
from parsl.addresses import address_by_interface
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label="frontera_htex",
address=address_by_interface('ib0'),
max_workers=56,
provider=SlurmProvider(
channel=LocalChannel(),
nodes_per_block=128,
init_blocks=1,
partition='normal',
launcher=SrunLauncher(),
),
)
],
)
Creating and Using Config Objects
Config objects are loaded to define the “Data Flow Kernel” (DFK) that will manage tasks.
All Parsl applications start by creating or importing a configuration then calling the load function.
from parsl.configs.htex_local import config
import parsl
parsl.load(config)
The load statement can happen after Apps are defined but must occur before tasks are started.
The Config object may not be used again after loaded.
Consider a configuration function if the application will shut down and re-launch the DFK.
from parsl.config import Config
import parsl
def make_config() -> Config:
return Config(...)
parsl.load(make_config())
parsl.clear() # Stops Parsl
parsl.load(make_config()) # Re-launches with a fresh configuration
How to Configure
Note
All configuration examples below must be customized for the user’s allocation, Python environment, file system, etc.
The configuration specifies what, and how, resources are to be used for executing the Parsl program and its apps. It is important to carefully consider the needs of the Parsl program and its apps, and the characteristics of the compute resources, to determine an ideal configuration. Aspects to consider include: 1) where the Parsl apps will execute; 2) how many nodes will be used to execute the apps, and how long the apps will run; 3) should Parsl request multiple nodes in an individual scheduler job; and 4) where will the main Parsl program run and how will it communicate with the apps.
Stepping through the following question should help formulate a suitable configuration object.
Where should apps be executed?
Target |
Executor |
Provider |
|---|---|---|
Laptop/Workstation |
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Amazon Web Services |
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Google Cloud |
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Slurm based system |
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Torque/PBS based system |
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Cobalt based system |
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GridEngine based system |
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Condor based cluster or grid |
||
Kubernetes cluster |
How many nodes will be used to execute the apps? What task durations are necessary to achieve good performance?
Executor |
Number of Nodes [*] |
Task duration for good performance |
|---|---|---|
1 (Only local) |
Any |
|
<=2000 |
Task duration(s)/#nodes >= 0.01 longer tasks needed at higher scale |
|
<=1000 [†] |
10s+ |
|
<=1000 [‡] |
10s+ |
3. Should Parsl request multiple nodes in an individual scheduler job? (Here the term block is equivalent to a single scheduler job.)
|
||
|---|---|---|
Provider |
Executor choice |
Suitable Launchers |
Systems that don’t use Aprun |
Any |
|
Aprun based systems |
Any |
|
|
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|---|---|---|
Provider |
Executor choice |
Suitable Launchers |
Any |
||
Any |
||
Any |
|
|
Note
If using a Cray system, you most likely need to use the parsl.launchers.AprunLauncher to launch workers unless you
are on a native Slurm system like Perlmutter (NERSC)
Where will the main Parsl program run and how will it communicate with the apps?
Parsl program location |
App execution target |
Suitable channel |
|---|---|---|
Laptop/Workstation |
Laptop/Workstation |
|
Laptop/Workstation |
Cloud Resources |
No channel is needed |
Laptop/Workstation |
Clusters with no 2FA |
|
Laptop/Workstation |
Clusters with 2FA |
|
Login node |
Cluster/Supercomputer |
Heterogeneous Resources
In some cases, it can be difficult to specify the resource requirements for running a workflow. For example, if the compute nodes a site provides are not uniform, there is no “correct” resource configuration; the amount of parallelism depends on which node (large or small) each job runs on. In addition, the software and filesystem setup can vary from node to node. A Condor cluster may not provide shared filesystem access at all, and may include nodes with a variety of Python versions and available libraries.
The parsl.executors.WorkQueueExecutor provides several features to work with heterogeneous resources.
By default, Parsl only runs one app at a time on each worker node.
However, it is possible to specify the requirements for a particular app,
and Work Queue will automatically run as many parallel instances as possible on each node.
Work Queue automatically detects the amount of cores, memory, and other resources available on each execution node.
To activate this feature, add a resource specification to your apps. A resource specification is a dictionary with
the following three keys: cores (an integer corresponding to the number of cores required by the task),
memory (an integer corresponding to the task’s memory requirement in MB), and disk (an integer corresponding to
the task’s disk requirement in MB), passed to an app via the special keyword argument parsl_resource_specification. The specification can be set for all app invocations via a default, for example:
@python_app def compute(x, parsl_resource_specification={'cores': 1, 'memory': 1000, 'disk': 1000}): return x*2
or updated when the app is invoked:
spec = {'cores': 1, 'memory': 500, 'disk': 500} future = compute(x, parsl_resource_specification=spec)
This parsl_resource_specification special keyword argument will inform Work Queue about the resources this app requires.
When placing instances of compute(x), Work Queue will run as many parallel instances as possible based on each worker node’s available resources.
If an app’s resource requirements are not known in advance,
Work Queue has an auto-labeling feature that measures the actual resource usage of your apps and automatically chooses resource labels for you.
With auto-labeling, it is not necessary to provide parsl_resource_specification;
Work Queue collects stats in the background and updates resource labels as your workflow runs.
To activate this feature, add the following flags to your executor config:
config = Config( executors=[ WorkQueueExecutor( # ...other options go here autolabel=True, autocategory=True ) ] )
The autolabel flag tells Work Queue to automatically generate resource labels.
By default, these labels are shared across all apps in your workflow.
The autocategory flag puts each app into a different category,
so that Work Queue will choose separate resource requirements for each app.
This is important if e.g. some of your apps use a single core and some apps require multiple cores.
Unless you know that all apps have uniform resource requirements,
you should turn on autocategory when using autolabel.
The Work Queue executor can also help deal with sites that have non-uniform software environments across nodes. Parsl assumes that the Parsl program and the compute nodes all use the same Python version. In addition, any packages your apps import must be available on compute nodes. If no shared filesystem is available or if node configuration varies, this can lead to difficult-to-trace execution problems.
If your Parsl program is running in a Conda environment,
the Work Queue executor can automatically scan the imports in your apps,
create a self-contained software package,
transfer the software package to worker nodes,
and run your code inside the packaged and uniform environment.
First, make sure that the Conda environment is active and you have the required packages installed (via either pip or conda):
pythonparslndcctoolsconda-pack
Then add the following to your config:
config = Config( executors=[ WorkQueueExecutor( # ...other options go here pack=True ) ] )
Note
There will be a noticeable delay the first time Work Queue sees an app; it is creating and packaging a complete Python environment. This packaged environment is cached, so subsequent app invocations should be much faster.
Using this approach, it is possible to run Parsl applications on nodes that don’t have Python available at all. The packaged environment includes a Python interpreter, and Work Queue does not require Python to run.
Note
The automatic packaging feature only supports packages installed via pip or conda.
Importing from other locations (e.g. via $PYTHONPATH) or importing other modules in the same directory is not supported.
Accelerators
Many modern clusters provide multiple accelerators per compute note, yet many applications are best suited to using a single accelerator per task.
Parsl supports pinning each worker to difference accelerators using available_accelerators option of the HighThroughputExecutor.
Provide either the number of executors (Parsl will assume they are named in integers starting from zero) or a list of the names of the accelerators available on the node.
local_config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label="htex_Local",
worker_debug=True,
available_accelerators=2,
provider=LocalProvider(
channel=LocalChannel(),
init_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
),
)
],
strategy='none',
)
Multi-Threaded Applications
Workflows which launch multiple workers on a single node which perform multi-threaded tasks (e.g., NumPy, Tensorflow operations) may run into thread contention issues.
Each worker may try to use the same hardware threads, which leads to performance penalties.
Use the cpu_affinity feature of the HighThroughputExecutor to assign workers to specific cores.
Parsl provides a ‘block’ or ‘alternate’ option on how cores are pinned to each worker (ex: 4 cores are grouped (0, 1) and (2, 3) for block,
(0, 2) and (1, 3) for alternate).
Select the best blocking strategy for processor’s cache hierarchy (choose ‘alternate’ if in doubt) to ensure workers to not compete for cores.
local_config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label="htex_Local",
worker_debug=True,
cpu_affinity='alternate',
provider=LocalProvider(
channel=LocalChannel(),
init_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
),
)
],
strategy='none',
)
Thread affinity is accomplished in two ways.
Each worker first sets the affinity for the Python process using the affinity mask,
which may not be available on all operating systems.
It then sets environment variables to control
OpenMP thread affinity
so that any subprocesses launched by a worker which use OpenMP know which processors are valid.
These include OMP_NUM_THREADS, GOMP_COMP_AFFINITY, and KMP_THREAD_AFFINITY.
Ad-Hoc Clusters
Any collection of compute nodes without a scheduler can be considered an ad-hoc cluster. Often these machines have a shared file system such as NFS or Lustre. In order to use these resources with Parsl, they need to set-up for password-less SSH access.
To use these ssh-accessible collection of nodes as an ad-hoc cluster, we use
the parsl.providers.AdHocProvider with an parsl.channels.SSHChannel to each node. An example
configuration follows.
from parsl.providers import AdHocProvider
from parsl.channels import SSHChannel
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.config import Config
from typing import Any, Dict
user_opts: Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]]
user_opts = {'adhoc':
{'username': 'YOUR_USERNAME',
'script_dir': 'YOUR_SCRIPT_DIR',
'remote_hostnames': ['REMOTE_HOST_URL_1', 'REMOTE_HOST_URL_2']
}
}
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='remote_htex',
max_workers=2,
worker_logdir_root=user_opts['adhoc']['script_dir'],
provider=AdHocProvider(
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
channels=[SSHChannel(hostname=m,
username=user_opts['adhoc']['username'],
script_dir=user_opts['adhoc']['script_dir'],
) for m in user_opts['adhoc']['remote_hostnames']]
)
)
],
# AdHoc Clusters should not be setup with scaling strategy.
strategy='none',
)
Note
Multiple blocks should not be assigned to each node when using the parsl.executors.HighThroughputExecutor
Amazon Web Services
Note
To use AWS with Parsl, install Parsl with AWS dependencies via python3 -m pip install 'parsl[aws]'
Amazon Web Services is a commercial cloud service which allows users to rent a range of computers and other computing services.
The following snippet shows how Parsl can be configured to provision nodes from the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.
The first time this configuration is used, Parsl will configure a Virtual Private Cloud and other networking and security infrastructure that will be
re-used in subsequent executions. The configuration uses the parsl.providers.AWSProvider to connect to AWS.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.providers import AWSProvider
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='ec2_single_node',
provider=AWSProvider(
# Specify your EC2 AMI id
'YOUR_AMI_ID',
# Specify the AWS region to provision from
# eg. us-east-1
region='YOUR_AWS_REGION',
# Specify the name of the key to allow ssh access to nodes
key_name='YOUR_KEY_NAME',
profile="default",
state_file='awsproviderstate.json',
nodes_per_block=1,
init_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
min_blocks=0,
walltime='01:00:00',
),
)
],
)
ASPIRE 1 (NSCC)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for accessing NSCC’s ASPIRE 1 supercomputer. This example uses the parsl.executors.HighThroughputExecutor executor and connects to ASPIRE1’s PBSPro scheduler. It also shows how scheduler_options parameter could be used for scheduling array jobs in PBSPro.
from parsl.providers import PBSProProvider
from parsl.launchers import MpiRunLauncher
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.addresses import address_by_interface
from parsl.monitoring.monitoring import MonitoringHub
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label="htex",
heartbeat_period=15,
heartbeat_threshold=120,
worker_debug=True,
max_workers=4,
address=address_by_interface('ib0'),
provider=PBSProProvider(
launcher=MpiRunLauncher(),
# PBS directives (header lines): for array jobs pass '-J' option
scheduler_options='#PBS -J 1-10',
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
# number of compute nodes allocated for each block
nodes_per_block=3,
min_blocks=3,
max_blocks=5,
cpus_per_node=24,
# medium queue has a max walltime of 24 hrs
walltime='24:00:00'
),
),
],
monitoring=MonitoringHub(
hub_address=address_by_interface('ib0'),
hub_port=55055,
resource_monitoring_interval=10,
),
strategy='simple',
retries=3,
app_cache=True,
checkpoint_mode='task_exit'
)
Blue Waters (NCSA)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for executing remotely on Blue Waters, a flagship machine at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
The configuration assumes the user is running on a login node and uses the parsl.providers.TorqueProvider to interface
with the scheduler, and uses the parsl.launchers.AprunLauncher to launch workers.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.launchers import AprunLauncher
from parsl.providers import TorqueProvider
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label="bw_htex",
cores_per_worker=1,
worker_debug=False,
provider=TorqueProvider(
queue='normal',
launcher=AprunLauncher(overrides="-b -- bwpy-environ --"),
scheduler_options='', # string to prepend to #SBATCH blocks in the submit script to the scheduler
worker_init='', # command to run before starting a worker, such as 'source activate env'
init_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
min_blocks=1,
nodes_per_block=2,
walltime='00:10:00'
),
)
],
)
Illinois Campus Cluster (UIUC)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for executing on the Illinois Campus Cluster.
The configuration assumes the user is running on a login node and uses the parsl.providers.SlurmProvider to interface
with the scheduler, and uses the parsl.launchers.SrunLauncher to launch workers.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.providers import SlurmProvider
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.launchers import SrunLauncher
""" This config assumes that it is used to launch parsl tasks from the login nodes
of the Campus Cluster at UIUC. Each job submitted to the scheduler will request 2 nodes for 10 minutes.
"""
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label="CC_htex",
worker_debug=False,
cores_per_worker=16.0, # each worker uses a full node
provider=SlurmProvider(
partition='secondary-fdr', # partition
nodes_per_block=2, # number of nodes
init_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
scheduler_options='',
cmd_timeout=60,
walltime='00:10:00',
launcher=SrunLauncher(),
worker_init='conda activate envParsl', # requires conda environment with parsl
),
)
],
)
Bridges (PSC)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for executing on the Bridges supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
The configuration assumes the user is running on a login node and uses the parsl.providers.SlurmProvider to interface
with the scheduler, and uses the parsl.launchers.SrunLauncher to launch workers.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.providers import SlurmProvider
from parsl.launchers import SrunLauncher
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.addresses import address_by_interface
""" This config assumes that it is used to launch parsl tasks from the login nodes
of Bridges at PSC. Each job submitted to the scheduler will request 2 nodes for 10 minutes.
"""
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='Bridges_HTEX_multinode',
address=address_by_interface('ens3f0'),
max_workers=1,
provider=SlurmProvider(
'YOUR_PARTITION_NAME', # Specify Partition / QOS, for eg. RM-small
nodes_per_block=2,
init_blocks=1,
# string to prepend to #SBATCH blocks in the submit
# script to the scheduler eg: '#SBATCH --gres=gpu:type:n'
scheduler_options='',
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
# We request all hyperthreads on a node.
launcher=SrunLauncher(),
walltime='00:10:00',
# Slurm scheduler on Cori can be slow at times,
# increase the command timeouts
cmd_timeout=120,
),
)
]
)
CC-IN2P3
The snippet below shows an example configuration for executing from a login node on IN2P3’s Computing Centre.
The configuration uses the parsl.providers.LocalProvider to run on a login node primarily to avoid GSISSH, which Parsl does not support yet.
This system uses Grid Engine which Parsl interfaces with using the parsl.providers.GridEngineProvider.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.channels import LocalChannel
from parsl.providers import GridEngineProvider
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='cc_in2p3_htex',
max_workers=2,
provider=GridEngineProvider(
channel=LocalChannel(),
nodes_per_block=1,
init_blocks=2,
max_blocks=2,
walltime="00:20:00",
scheduler_options='', # Input your scheduler_options if needed
worker_init='', # Input your worker_init if needed
),
)
],
)
CCL (Notre Dame, with Work Queue)
To utilize Work Queue with Parsl, please install the full CCTools software package within an appropriate Anaconda or Miniconda environment (instructions for installing Miniconda can be found in the Conda install guide):
$ conda create -y --name <environment> python=<version> conda-pack
$ conda activate <environment>
$ conda install -y -c conda-forge ndcctools parsl
This creates a Conda environment on your machine with all the necessary tools and setup needed to utilize Work Queue with the Parsl library.
The following snippet shows an example configuration for using the Work Queue distributed framework to run applications on remote machines at large.
This examples uses the parsl.executors.WorkQueueExecutor to schedule tasks locally,
and assumes that Work Queue workers have been externally connected to the master using the
work_queue_factory or
condor_submit_workers command line utilities from CCTools.
For more information on using Work Queue or to get help with running applications using CCTools,
visit the CCTools documentation online.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.executors import WorkQueueExecutor
import uuid
config = Config(
executors=[
WorkQueueExecutor(
label="parsl-wq-example",
# If a project_name is given, then Work Queue will periodically
# report its status and performance back to the global WQ catalog,
# which can be viewed here: http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/workqueue/status
# To disable status reporting, comment out the project_name.
project_name="parsl-wq-" + str(uuid.uuid4()),
# The port number that Work Queue will listen on for connecting workers.
port=9123,
# A shared filesystem is not needed when using Work Queue.
shared_fs=False
)
]
)
Comet (SDSC)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for executing remotely on San Diego Supercomputer
Center’s Comet supercomputer. The example is designed to be executed on the login nodes, using the
parsl.providers.SlurmProvider to interface with the Slurm scheduler used by Comet and the parsl.launchers.SrunLauncher to launch workers.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.launchers import SrunLauncher
from parsl.providers import SlurmProvider
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='Comet_HTEX_multinode',
worker_logdir_root='YOUR_LOGDIR_ON_COMET',
max_workers=2,
provider=SlurmProvider(
'debug',
launcher=SrunLauncher(),
# string to prepend to #SBATCH blocks in the submit
# script to the scheduler
scheduler_options='',
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
walltime='00:10:00',
init_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
nodes_per_block=2,
),
)
]
)
Cooley (ALCF)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for executing on Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s
Cooley analysis and visualization system.
The example uses the parsl.executors.HighThroughputExecutor and connects to Cooley’s Cobalt scheduler
using the parsl.providers.CobaltProvider. This configuration assumes that the script is being executed on the login nodes of Theta.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.launchers import MpiRunLauncher
from parsl.providers import CobaltProvider
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label="cooley_htex",
worker_debug=False,
cores_per_worker=1,
provider=CobaltProvider(
queue='debug',
account='YOUR_ACCOUNT', # project name to submit the job
launcher=MpiRunLauncher(),
scheduler_options='', # string to prepend to #COBALT blocks in the submit script to the scheduler
worker_init='', # command to run before starting a worker, such as 'source activate env'
init_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
min_blocks=1,
nodes_per_block=4,
cmd_timeout=60,
walltime='00:10:00',
),
)
],
)
Perlmutter (NERSC)
NERSC provides documentation on how to use Parsl on Perlmutter.
Frontera (TACC)
Deployed in June 2019, Frontera is the 5th most powerful supercomputer in the world. Frontera replaces the NSF Blue Waters system at NCSA
and is the first deployment in the National Science Foundation’s petascale computing program. The configuration below assumes that the user is
running on a login node and uses the parsl.providers.SlurmProvider to interface with the scheduler, and uses the parsl.launchers.SrunLauncher to launch workers.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.channels import LocalChannel
from parsl.providers import SlurmProvider
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.launchers import SrunLauncher
""" This config assumes that it is used to launch parsl tasks from the login nodes
of Frontera at TACC. Each job submitted to the scheduler will request 2 nodes for 10 minutes.
"""
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label="frontera_htex",
max_workers=1, # Set number of workers per node
provider=SlurmProvider(
cmd_timeout=60, # Add extra time for slow scheduler responses
channel=LocalChannel(),
nodes_per_block=2,
init_blocks=1,
min_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
partition='normal', # Replace with partition name
scheduler_options='#SBATCH -A <YOUR_ALLOCATION>', # Enter scheduler_options if needed
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
# Ideally we set the walltime to the longest supported walltime.
walltime='00:10:00',
launcher=SrunLauncher(),
),
)
],
)
Kubernetes Clusters
Kubernetes is an open-source system for container management, such as automating deployment and scaling of containers.
The snippet below shows an example configuration for deploying pods as workers on a Kubernetes cluster.
The KubernetesProvider exploits the Python Kubernetes API, which assumes that you have kube config in ~/.kube/config.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.providers import KubernetesProvider
from parsl.addresses import address_by_route
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='kube-htex',
cores_per_worker=1,
max_workers=1,
worker_logdir_root='YOUR_WORK_DIR',
# Address for the pod worker to connect back
address=address_by_route(),
provider=KubernetesProvider(
namespace="default",
# Docker image url to use for pods
image='YOUR_DOCKER_URL',
# Command to be run upon pod start, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
# or 'pip install parsl'
worker_init='',
# The secret key to download the image
secret="YOUR_KUBE_SECRET",
# Should follow the Kubernetes naming rules
pod_name='YOUR-POD-Name',
nodes_per_block=1,
init_blocks=1,
# Maximum number of pods to scale up
max_blocks=10,
),
),
]
)
Midway (RCC, UChicago)
This Midway cluster is a campus cluster hosted by the Research Computing Center at the University of Chicago.
The snippet below shows an example configuration for executing remotely on Midway.
The configuration assumes the user is running on a login node and uses the parsl.providers.SlurmProvider to interface
with the scheduler, and uses the parsl.launchers.SrunLauncher to launch workers.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.providers import SlurmProvider
from parsl.launchers import SrunLauncher
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.addresses import address_by_interface
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='Midway_HTEX_multinode',
address=address_by_interface('bond0'),
worker_debug=False,
max_workers=2,
provider=SlurmProvider(
'YOUR_PARTITION', # Partition name, e.g 'broadwl'
launcher=SrunLauncher(),
nodes_per_block=2,
init_blocks=1,
min_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
# string to prepend to #SBATCH blocks in the submit
# script to the scheduler eg: '#SBATCH --constraint=knl,quad,cache'
scheduler_options='',
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
walltime='00:30:00'
),
)
],
)
Open Science Grid
The Open Science Grid (OSG) is a national, distributed computing Grid spanning over 100 individual sites to provide tens of thousands of CPU cores.
The snippet below shows an example configuration for executing remotely on OSG. You will need to have a valid project name on the OSG.
The configuration uses the parsl.providers.CondorProvider to interface with the scheduler.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.providers import CondorProvider
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='OSG_HTEX',
max_workers=1,
provider=CondorProvider(
nodes_per_block=1,
init_blocks=4,
max_blocks=4,
# This scheduler option string ensures that the compute nodes provisioned
# will have modules
scheduler_options="""
+ProjectName = "MyProject"
Requirements = HAS_MODULES=?=TRUE
""",
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='''unset HOME; unset PYTHONPATH; module load python/3.7.0;
python3 -m venv parsl_env; source parsl_env/bin/activate; python3 -m pip install parsl''',
walltime="00:20:00",
),
worker_logdir_root='$OSG_WN_TMP',
worker_ports=(31000, 31001)
)
]
)
Polaris (ALCF)
ALCF provides documentation on how to use Parsl on Polaris.
Stampede2 (TACC)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for accessing TACC’s Stampede2 supercomputer. This example uses theHighThroughput executor and connects to Stampede2’s Slurm scheduler.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.providers import SlurmProvider
from parsl.launchers import SrunLauncher
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.data_provider.globus import GlobusStaging
from parsl.addresses import address_by_interface
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='Stampede2_HTEX',
address=address_by_interface('em3'),
max_workers=2,
provider=SlurmProvider(
nodes_per_block=2,
init_blocks=1,
min_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
partition='YOUR_PARTITION',
# string to prepend to #SBATCH blocks in the submit
# script to the scheduler eg: '#SBATCH --constraint=knl,quad,cache'
scheduler_options='',
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
launcher=SrunLauncher(),
walltime='00:30:00'
),
storage_access=[GlobusStaging(
endpoint_uuid='ceea5ca0-89a9-11e7-a97f-22000a92523b',
endpoint_path='/',
local_path='/'
)]
)
],
)
Summit (ORNL)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for executing from the login node on Summit, the leadership class supercomputer hosted at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The example uses the parsl.providers.LSFProvider to provision compute nodes from the LSF cluster scheduler and the parsl.launchers.JsrunLauncher to launch workers across the compute nodes.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.launchers import JsrunLauncher
from parsl.providers import LSFProvider
from parsl.addresses import address_by_interface
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='Summit_HTEX',
# On Summit ensure that the working dir is writeable from the compute nodes,
# for eg. paths below /gpfs/alpine/world-shared/
working_dir='YOUR_WORKING_DIR_ON_SHARED_FS',
address=address_by_interface('ib0'), # This assumes Parsl is running on login node
worker_port_range=(50000, 55000),
provider=LSFProvider(
launcher=JsrunLauncher(),
walltime="00:10:00",
nodes_per_block=2,
init_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
worker_init='', # Input your worker environment initialization commands
project='YOUR_PROJECT_ALLOCATION',
cmd_timeout=60
),
)
],
)
Theta (ALCF)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for executing on Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s
Theta supercomputer. This example uses the parsl.executors.HighThroughputExecutor and connects to Theta’s Cobalt scheduler
using the parsl.providers.CobaltProvider. This configuration assumes that the script is being executed on the login nodes of Theta.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.providers import CobaltProvider
from parsl.launchers import AprunLauncher
from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.addresses import address_by_interface
config = Config(
executors=[
HighThroughputExecutor(
label='theta_local_htex_multinode',
address=address_by_interface('vlan2360'),
max_workers=4,
cpu_affinity='block', # Ensures that workers use cores on the same tile
provider=CobaltProvider(
queue='YOUR_QUEUE',
account='YOUR_ACCOUNT',
launcher=AprunLauncher(overrides="-d 64 --cc depth"),
walltime='00:30:00',
nodes_per_block=2,
init_blocks=1,
min_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
# string to prepend to #COBALT blocks in the submit
# script to the scheduler eg: '#COBALT -t 50'
scheduler_options='',
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
cmd_timeout=120,
),
)
],
)
TOSS3 (LLNL)
The following snippet shows an example configuration for executing on one of LLNL’s TOSS3
machines, such as Quartz, Ruby, Topaz, Jade, or Magma. This example uses the parsl.executors.FluxExecutor
and connects to Slurm using the parsl.providers.SlurmProvider. This configuration assumes that the script
is being executed on the login nodes of one of the machines.
from parsl.config import Config
from parsl.executors import FluxExecutor
from parsl.providers import SlurmProvider
from parsl.launchers import SrunLauncher
config = Config(
executors=[
FluxExecutor(
provider=SlurmProvider(
partition="YOUR_PARTITION", # e.g. "pbatch", "pdebug"
account="YOUR_ACCOUNT",
launcher=SrunLauncher(overrides="--mpibind=off"),
nodes_per_block=1,
init_blocks=1,
min_blocks=1,
max_blocks=1,
walltime="00:30:00",
# string to prepend to #SBATCH blocks in the submit
# script to the scheduler, e.g.: '#SBATCH -t 50'
scheduler_options='',
# Command to be run before starting a worker, such as:
# 'module load Anaconda; source activate parsl_env'.
worker_init='',
cmd_timeout=120,
),
)
]
)
Further help
For help constructing a configuration, you can click on class names such as Config or HighThroughputExecutor to see the associated class documentation. The same documentation can be accessed interactively at the python command line via, for example:
from parsl.config import Config
help(Config)