src/Utility/IpplInfo.h

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// -*- C++ -*-
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#ifndef IPPL_INFO_H
#define IPPL_INFO_H

/* 
 * IpplInfo.has the following capabilities:
 *   1) It initializes all globally-used Ippl variables, such as the
 *      Communicate class and other manager classes;
 *   2) It parses command-line arguments to determine how to configure the
 *      global state of the Ippl application;
 *   3) It properly selects and configures the Communicate class, generally
 *      resulting in initialization of the parallel machine;
 *   4) It offers to the user a single class with access member functions to
 *      query for information about the Ippl application (such as what is
 *      the Communicate class instance to use, how many processors are there
 *      in the current run, etc.)
 *
 * The globally-available Ippl objects are (available via IpplInfo::variable)
 *   Communicate *Comm ....... parallel communication object
 *   Inform *Info ............ used to print out informative messages
 *   Inform *Warn ............ used to print out warning messages
 *   Inform *Error ........... used to print out error messages
 *   Inform *Debug ........... used to print out debugging messages
 *
 * Note that you should use the following macros to access the Inform objects,
 * so that these messages may be left out at compile time:
 *   INFOMSG("This is some information " << 34 << endl);
 *   WARNMSG("This is a warning " << 34 << endl);
 *   ERRORMSG("This is an error message " << 34 << endl);
 *   DEBUGMSG("This is some debugging info " << 34 << endl);
 *
 * There is also a 'typedef IpplInfo Ippl' here, so you can simply use
 * the name 'Ippl' instead of the longer 'IpplInfo' to access this class.
 * 'Ippl' is in fact preferred, as it is shorter.
 */

// include files
#include "Utility/Inform.h"
#include "Message/Communicate.h"

#ifdef IPPL_USE_STANDARD_HEADERS
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#else
#include <iostream.h>
#endif

// forward declarations
class IpplStats;
class IpplInfo;
ostream& operator<<(ostream&, const IpplInfo&);


#ifdef IPPL_RUNTIME_ERRCHECK
// special routine used in runtime debugging error detection
extern "C" {
void __C_runtime_error (int trap_code, char *name, int line_no, ...);
};
#endif


class IpplInfo {

public:
  // an enumeration used to indicate whether to KEEP command-line arguments
  // or REMOVE them
  enum { KEEP = 0, REMOVE = 1 };

  //
  // global static objects, available to all Ippl applications (even if
  // no IpplInfo object is instantiated)
  //

  // Inform object to use to print messages to the console (or even to a
  // file if requested)
  static Inform *Info;
  static Inform *Warn;
  static Inform *Error;
  static Inform *Debug;

  // the parallel communication object
  static Communicate *Comm;

  // the statistics collection object
  static IpplStats *Stats;

public:
  // Constructor 1: specify the argc, argv values from the cmd line.
  // The second argument controls whether the IPPL-specific command line
  // arguments are stripped out (the default) or left in (if the setting
  // is IpplInfo::KEEP).
  IpplInfo(int&, char** &, int removeargs = REMOVE);

  // Constructor 2: default constructor.  This will not change anything in
  // how the static data members are set up.  This is useful for declaring
  // automatic IpplInfo instances in functions after IpplInfo.has been
  // initially created in the main() routine.
  IpplInfo();

  // Constructor 3: copy constructor.  This will only copy non-static members
  // (obviously), if any exist.
  IpplInfo(const IpplInfo&);

  // Destructor.
  ~IpplInfo();

  // Overload the = operator; does the same thing as the copy constructor.
  IpplInfo& operator=(const IpplInfo&);


  /* NOTE: The following initialize/finalize methods have not yet been
     implemented.  Add them to IpplInfo.cpp if they are needed (bfh).
  //
  // Initialize and finalize routines ... initialize can be used if you
  // created IpplInfo with the default constructor, and finalize() can
  // be used to shut down IPPL and possibly exit the program
  //

  // initialize ourselves, if we have not yet done so, by parsing the
  // command-line args and creating the Communication object.  This should
  // be called by all the currently-running nodes.
  void initialize(int &, char ** &);

  // shut down the communication, and possibly exit.  This should be called
  // by all the nodes, it will not work if it is called by just one node
  // and you are running in parallel (in that case, the Communicate subclass
  // destructor will hang).
  void finalize();

  // a version of finalize that will also shut down all the machines via
  // a call to exit()
  void finalize(int exitcode);
  */


  //
  // Standard IPPL action methods (such as abort, etc)
  //

  // Kill the communication and exit the program, in an emergency.  This
  // will exit with an error code.  If the given exit code is < 0, the
  // program will call the system abort().  If the exit code is >= 0,
  // the program will call the system exit() with the given error code.
  static void abort(const char * = 0, int exitcode = (-1));

  // Signal to ALL the nodes that we should exit or abort.  If we abort,
  // a core file will be produced.  If we exit, no core file will be made.
  // The node which calls abortAllNodes will print out the given message;
  // the other nodes will print out that they are aborting due to a message
  // from this node.  The final boolean argument indicates whether the
  // calling node should abort or exit just as the other nodes are being
  // asked to do; if this is false, then only the other nodes will be
  // instructed to quit, and it will be up to the caller to abort or exit
  // the current node.  This makes it possible to ask all other nodes to
  // exit, but have your own node abort.
  static void abortAllNodes(const char * = 0, bool thisnode = true);
  static void exitAllNodes(const char * = 0, bool thisnode = true);

  //
  // Functions which return information about the current Ippl application.
  //

  // Return the number of the 'current' node.
  static int myNode();

  // Return the current number of nodes working in parallel, where
  // each node may have more than one processor.  A 'Node' is basically
  // considered as an entity which has a single IP address.
  static int getNodes();

  // Return the number of contexts on a given node N.  A 'Context' is
  // considered to be a single addressable memory space; for shared memory
  // machines, this could be the whole machine or one of many separate sections
  // each being treated as distinct from the others.
  static int getContexts(int);

  // Return the number of processes which are actively working on node N in
  // context C. A 'Process' is not necessarily one in the strict Unix sense; it
  // could be a lightweight thread or indeed a full process.  These numbers
  // may dynamically change.
  static int getProcesses(int, int);

  // getSMPs: return number of SMP's (each of which may be running
  // several processes)
  static int getSMPs();

  // getSMPNodes: return number of nodes on the SMP with the given index
  static int getSMPNodes(unsigned int);

  // mySMP: return ID of my SMP (numbered 0 ... getSMPs() - 1)
  static int mySMP();

  // mySMPNode: return relative node number within the nodes on our SMP
  static int mySMPNode();

  // Return argc or argv as provided in the initialization
  static int getArgc() { return MyArgc; }
  static char **getArgv() { return MyArgv; }

  // return true if we should use checksums on messages
  static bool useChecksums() { return UseChecksums; }

  // return true if we should try to retransmit messages on error
  static bool retransmit() { return (UseChecksums && Retransmit); }

#ifdef IPPL_COMM_ALARMS
  // A timeout quantity, in seconds, to allow us to wait a certain number
  // of seconds before we signal a timeout when we're trying to receive
  // a message.
  static unsigned int getCommTimeout() { return CommTimeoutSeconds; }
#endif

  // Static data about a limit to the number of nodes that should be used
  // in FFT operations.  If this is <= 0 or > number of nodes, it is ignored.
  static int maxFFTNodes() { return MaxFFTNodes; }

  // Return the "read chunk size", the number of bytes that will be
  // read in, at max, for most Disc read operations.  If the final
  // character is 'K', 'M', or 'G', the number will mean the number
  // of kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes.  The default is one MB.  If
  // this is <= 0, then no limit should be used.
  static int chunkSize() { return ChunkSize; }

  // Return boolean setting for whether we should attempt to use parallel
  // I/O within a single SMP, for example by having multipple processors
  // try to read from a single file (vs just having one node do it).
  static bool perSMPParallelIO() { return PerSMPParallelIO; }

  //
  // Functions which return information about the Ippl library
  //

  // printVersion: print out a version summary.  If the argument is true,
  // print out a detailed listing, otherwise a summary.
  static void printVersion(bool = false);

  // version: return the name of this version of Ippl, as a string
  // (from IpplVersions.h)
  static const char *version();

  // versionList: return one of the summary lines from the source code
  // version list
  static const char *versionList(unsigned int);

  // versionListSize: return the number of source code files listed in
  // the versionList array.
  static unsigned int versionListSize();

  // compileArch: return the architecture on which this library was built
  // (from IpplVersions.h)
  static const char *compileArch();

  // compileDate: return the date on which this library was prepared for
  // compilation (from IpplVersions.h)
  static const char *compileDate();

  // compileLine: return the compiler command used to compile each source file
  // (from IpplVersions.h)
  static const char *compileLine();

  // compileMachine: return the machine on which this library was
  // compiled (from IpplVersions.h)
  static const char *compileMachine();

  // compileOptions: return the option list used to compile this library
  // (from IpplVersions.h)
  static const char *compileOptions();

  // compileUser: return the username of the user who compiled this
  // library (from IpplVersions.h)
  static const char *compileUser();

  // Static flag telling whether to use optimization for reducing
  // communication by deferring guard cell fills.
  static bool deferGuardCellFills;

  // Static flag telling whether to turn off compression in the Field classes.
  static bool noFieldCompression;

  // Static flag telling whether to try to (pseudo-)randomly offset the
  // LField blocks to try to avoid cache conflicts.
  static bool offsetStorage;

  // Static flag telling whether to try to do a TryCompress after each
  // individual LField has been processed in an expression.
  static bool extraCompressChecks;

  // Static flag telling whether to try to use direct-io.  This is only
  // possible if the library is compiled with the IPPL_DIRECTIO option,
  // and you are on a system that provides this capablity.
  static bool useDirectIO;

  // Static routine giving one a place to stop at with #$%$%#1 stupid
  // debuggers.
  static void here();

  // print out statistics to the given Inform stream
  static void printStatistics(Inform&);

private:
  // Static counter indicating how many IpplInit objects have been created.
  // When this gets back to zero, it's time to delete the Comm and quit.
  static int NumCreated;

  // Static flag indicating whether this class has been created with
  // argc,argv specified ever.  This should only be done once.
  static bool CommInitialized;

  // Static flag indicating whether we should print out stats info at the
  // end of the program.
  static bool PrintStats;

  // Static flag indicating if we need to delete the comm object at the end.
  static bool NeedDeleteComm;

  // Static flag indicating whether to use checksums on messages
  static bool UseChecksums;

  // Static flag indicating whether to retransmit messages when errors occur
  static bool Retransmit;

  // Static data with argc and argv
  static int MyArgc;
  static char **MyArgv;

  // Static data with my node number and total number of nodes.  These are
  // only changed when a new Communicate object is created.
  static int MyNode;
  static int TotalNodes;

  // Static data with SMP information.  These are changed after a new
  // Communicate object is created.
  static int NumSMPs;
  static int *SMPIDList;
  static int *SMPNodeList;

  // Static data about a limit to the number of nodes that should be used
  // in FFT operations.  If this is <= 0 or > number of nodes, it is ignored.
  static int MaxFFTNodes;

  // Maximum read chunk size
  static int ChunkSize;

  // A boolean setting for whether we should attempt to use parallel
  // I/O within a single SMP, for example by having multipple processors
  // try to read from a single file (vs just having one node do it).
  static bool PerSMPParallelIO;

#ifdef IPPL_COMM_ALARMS
  // A timeout quantity, in seconds, to allow us to wait a certain number
  // of seconds before we signal a timeout when we're trying to receive
  // a message.  By default, this will be zero; change it with the
  // --msgtimeout <seconds> flag
  static unsigned int CommTimeoutSeconds;
#endif

  // Indicate an error occurred while trying to parse the given command-line
  // option, and quit.  Arguments are: parameter, error message, bad value
  void param_error(const char *, const char *, const char *);
  void param_error(const char *, const char *, const char *, const char *);

  // find out how many SMP's there are, and which processor we are on
  // our local SMP (e.g., if there are two SMP's with 4 nodes each,
  // the process will have a node number from 0 ... 7, and an SMP node
  // number from 0 ... 3
  void find_smp_nodes();
};

// macros used to print out messages to the console or a directed file
#define INFOMSG(msg)  { *IpplInfo::Info << msg; }
#define WARNMSG(msg)  { *IpplInfo::Warn << msg; }
#define ERRORMSG(msg) { *IpplInfo::Error << msg; }

// special macro to print debugging messages
#ifdef IPPL_PRINTDEBUG
#define DEBUGMSG(msg) { *IpplInfo::Debug << msg; }
#else
#define DEBUGMSG(msg)
#endif


// typedef so that we can have a 'Ippl' class that's easier to manipulate
typedef IpplInfo Ippl;


#endif // IPPL_INFO_H

/***************************************************************************
 * $RCSfile: IpplInfo.h,v $   $Author: adelmann $
 * $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $   $Date: 2003/01/23 07:40:33 $
 * IPPL_VERSION_ID: $Id: IpplInfo.h,v 1.1.1.1 2003/01/23 07:40:33 adelmann Exp $ 
 ***************************************************************************/

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