* Gnat Glade newbie questions @ 2004-03-25 11:07 Roger Blum 2004-03-25 19:34 ` Ludovic Brenta 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Roger Blum @ 2004-03-25 11:07 UTC (permalink / raw) Hello I'm new to gnat glade and im trying to build a framework for distributed Monte-Carlo simulations. Input (scenario and base data) comes from an Oracle database; output is written into the same DB. Statistical analysis of simulation results is then performed in the DB itself. I have a working system which is based on strictly sequential processing. Now I intend to distribute the processing as follows: ----------------------------------------------------- - Kind of 'shared memory' for base data (e.g. digital elevation model for line of sight calculations) - A worker process executing one independent 'run' of the whole simulation - A master process spawning the desired amount of worker processes (runs) My idea: -------- - The base data: One process (an executable running as a service / an Ada task with different entries accessing a protected object) acting as a server. Available to any worker process. Package categorized as REMOTE_CALL_INTERFACE (or SHARED_PASSIVE?). - The worker process: Another executable Packages reading data from base data categorized as REMOTE_CALL_INTERFACE or no categorization at all? - The master: Starting worker processes with GNAT.OS_LIB.NON_BLOCKING_SPAWN("worker.exe", args) as just creating Ada tasks wouldn't be enough to be migrated on openMosix (the target platform). Probably no categorization necessary. Now my questions: ----------------- - All my tries to build and use GNAT Glade 3.15p from the source failed. Has anybody a working binary of GNAT Glade 3.15p for Windows and/or Linux (gnatdist and Garlic) or how can I build it from source without a lot of error messages? - Can gnatdist build all the necessary executables just on the base of correct categorization of the packages or do I have to create 3 main procedures/packages? - How can the worker get aware of the presence of the base data? - Will the distributed processes generated that way migrate on openMosix? - Has anybody experiences made with Ada / MPI or PVM? Any help / information / suggestion is very much appreciated! Thanks Roger ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Gnat Glade newbie questions 2004-03-25 11:07 Gnat Glade newbie questions Roger Blum @ 2004-03-25 19:34 ` Ludovic Brenta 2004-03-25 22:22 ` Duncan Sands ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Ludovic Brenta @ 2004-03-25 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw) "Roger Blum" <roger_blum@swissonline.ch> writes: > - All my tries to build and use GNAT Glade 3.15p from the source failed. > Has anybody a working binary of GNAT Glade 3.15p for Windows and/or Linux > (gnatdist and Garlic) or how can I build it from source without a lot of > error messages? Use Debian. gnat and glade are there, precompiled for you. If you choose Woody (the latest, but ageing, stable version) these will be 3.14p. If you choose Sarge (the upcoming stable version, currently in testing), these will be 3.15p. FWIW, I didn't have too much trouble compiling GNAT or GLADE, but you can save yourself the sweat by using the precompiled packages. > - Can gnatdist build all the necessary executables just on the base > of correct categorization of the packages or do I have to create 3 > main procedures/packages? You only write one main procedure. gnatdist uses the configuration pragmas and a configuration file to produce as many executables as necessary. > - How can the worker get aware of the presence of the base data? This is also documented. You can choose between static and dynamic remote calls, but I don't know the details. > - Will the distributed processes generated that way migrate on openMosix? I don't know. I don't know what openMosix is. > - Has anybody experiences made with Ada / MPI or PVM? What are these? -- Ludovic Brenta. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Gnat Glade newbie questions 2004-03-25 19:34 ` Ludovic Brenta @ 2004-03-25 22:22 ` Duncan Sands 2004-03-25 23:11 ` Ludovic Brenta 2004-04-05 8:52 ` Roger Blum 2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Duncan Sands @ 2004-03-25 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ludovic Brenta, comp.lang.ada On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:34, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > "Roger Blum" <roger_blum@swissonline.ch> writes: > > - All my tries to build and use GNAT Glade 3.15p from the source failed. > > Has anybody a working binary of GNAT Glade 3.15p for Windows and/or > > Linux (gnatdist and Garlic) or how can I build it from source without a > > lot of error messages? You need to compile with gnat 3.15p. Also, you may need to run autoconf (or something like that, I forget what, maybe automake). > > - Can gnatdist build all the necessary executables just on the base > > of correct categorization of the packages or do I have to create 3 > > main procedures/packages? You need to supply gnatdist with a configuration file (see the documentation). > > - Will the distributed processes generated that way migrate on openMosix? No (I tried it once). openMosix won't migrate multithreaded programs, and glade adds some threads to your program to handle the remote procedure calls. Duncan. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Gnat Glade newbie questions 2004-03-25 19:34 ` Ludovic Brenta 2004-03-25 22:22 ` Duncan Sands @ 2004-03-25 23:11 ` Ludovic Brenta 2004-04-05 8:52 ` Roger Blum 2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Ludovic Brenta @ 2004-03-25 23:11 UTC (permalink / raw) (Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr> replied to me privately and comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org, but I did not see his reply on the newsgroup. I forward it here -- Ludovic Brenta.) On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:34, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > "Roger Blum" <roger_blum@swissonline.ch> writes: > > - All my tries to build and use GNAT Glade 3.15p from the source failed. > > Has anybody a working binary of GNAT Glade 3.15p for Windows and/or > > Linux (gnatdist and Garlic) or how can I build it from source without a > > lot of error messages? You need to compile with gnat 3.15p. Also, you may need to run autoconf (or something like that, I forget what, maybe automake). > > - Can gnatdist build all the necessary executables just on the base > > of correct categorization of the packages or do I have to create 3 > > main procedures/packages? You need to supply gnatdist with a configuration file (see the documentation). > > - Will the distributed processes generated that way migrate on openMosix? No (I tried it once). openMosix won't migrate multithreaded programs, and glade adds some threads to your program to handle the remote procedure calls. Duncan. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Gnat Glade newbie questions 2004-03-25 19:34 ` Ludovic Brenta 2004-03-25 22:22 ` Duncan Sands 2004-03-25 23:11 ` Ludovic Brenta @ 2004-04-05 8:52 ` Roger Blum 2004-04-06 12:13 ` Laurent Pautet 2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Roger Blum @ 2004-04-05 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw) Hello Ludovic and Duncan, Thanks a lot for your replies and sorry for my late answer, but I've been out of town for a couple of days. I 've found installation instructions for glade on Linux at http://www.univ-orleans.fr/SCIENCES/INFO/RESSOURCES/doc-install-gnat-linux.html. Althoug anything didn't behave as described, I finally succeeded in building GLADE 3.15p on Linux. But when I do a gnatmake for my test programs, I get an error (s-stratt.adb has to be recompiled), so something still is wrong. Do you know how to fix this problem? About migration on openMosix (a Linux Kernel extension for building Clusters with automatic process migration (in a view simple words)): Do no processes (partitions) migrate on openMosix, or is it just the server partition containing the routines called by RPC? If processes definitively do not migrate on openMosix, then GLADE is not an option for me, and I have to find another way to implement the distributed version of my simulation software. About PVM and MPI: PVM is an integrated set of software tools and libraries that emulates a general-purpose, flexible, heterogeneous parallel computing framework on interconnected computers of varied architecture. (From 'Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux'). MPI is a standardized specification of a Message Passing Interface. It's implementations support the writing of parallel programs. Both are mainly used by C/C++ routines and I've even found a link to an Ada binding (maybe outdated). I will continue investigating these two as possibilities, too. Debian is not an option for me at the moment as the simulation platform is fix (Linux / openMosix). Thanks again, Roger "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:87u10c4t5y.fsf@insalien.org... > "Roger Blum" <roger_blum@swissonline.ch> writes: > > > - All my tries to build and use GNAT Glade 3.15p from the source failed. > > Has anybody a working binary of GNAT Glade 3.15p for Windows and/or Linux > > (gnatdist and Garlic) or how can I build it from source without a lot of > > error messages? > > Use Debian. gnat and glade are there, precompiled for you. If you > choose Woody (the latest, but ageing, stable version) these will be > 3.14p. If you choose Sarge (the upcoming stable version, currently in > testing), these will be 3.15p. > > FWIW, I didn't have too much trouble compiling GNAT or GLADE, but you > can save yourself the sweat by using the precompiled packages. > > > - Can gnatdist build all the necessary executables just on the base > > of correct categorization of the packages or do I have to create 3 > > main procedures/packages? > > You only write one main procedure. gnatdist uses the configuration > pragmas and a configuration file to produce as many executables as > necessary. > > > - How can the worker get aware of the presence of the base data? > > This is also documented. You can choose between static and dynamic > remote calls, but I don't know the details. > > > - Will the distributed processes generated that way migrate on openMosix? > > I don't know. I don't know what openMosix is. > > > - Has anybody experiences made with Ada / MPI or PVM? > > What are these? > > -- > Ludovic Brenta. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Gnat Glade newbie questions 2004-04-05 8:52 ` Roger Blum @ 2004-04-06 12:13 ` Laurent Pautet 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Laurent Pautet @ 2004-04-06 12:13 UTC (permalink / raw) "Roger Blum" <roger_blum@swissonline.ch> writes: > Hello Ludovic and Duncan, > > I 've found installation instructions for glade on Linux at > http://www.univ-orleans.fr/SCIENCES/INFO/RESSOURCES/doc-install-gnat-linux.html. > Althoug anything didn't behave as described, I finally succeeded in building > GLADE 3.15p on Linux. > But when I do a gnatmake for my test programs, I get an error (s-stratt.adb > has to be recompiled), so something still is wrong. > Do you know how to fix this problem? This is a well-known issue. GLADE has its own s-stratt.adb based on XDR in order to work between heterogeneous machines. GNAT has a s-stratt.adb implementation based on memory copies (which only works in homogeneous systme). You have to stick with only one implementation. The best way would be to always use gnatdist. -- -- Laurent ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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