Source code for openquake.baselib.parallel

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"""\
The Starmap API
====================================

There are several good libraries to manage parallel programming, both
in the standard library and in third party packages. Since we are not
interested in reinventing the wheel, OpenQuake does not offer any new
parallel library; however, it does offer some glue code so that you
can use your library of choice. Currently threading, multiprocessing,
zmq and celery are supported. Moreover,
:mod:`openquake.baselib.parallel` offers some additional facilities
that make it easier to parallelize scientific computations,
i.e. embarrassing parallel problems.

Typically one wants to apply a callable to a list of arguments in
parallel rather then sequentially, and then combine together the
results. This is known as a `MapReduce` problem. As a simple example,
we will consider the problem of counting the letters in a text. Here is
how you can solve the problem sequentially:

>>> from itertools import starmap  # map a function with multiple arguments
>>> from functools import reduce  # reduce an iterable with a binary operator
>>> from operator import add  # addition function
>>> from openquake.baselib.performance import Monitor
>>> mon = Monitor('count')
>>> arglist = [('hello', mon), ('world', mon)]  # list of arguments
>>> results = starmap(count, arglist)  # iterator over the results
>>> res = reduce(add, results, collections.Counter())  # aggregated counts
>>> sorted(res.items())  # counts per letter
[('d', 1), ('e', 1), ('h', 1), ('l', 3), ('o', 2), ('r', 1), ('w', 1)]

Here is how you can solve the problem in parallel by using
:class:`openquake.baselib.parallel.Starmap`:

>>> res2 = Starmap(count, arglist).reduce()
>>> assert res2 == res  # the same as before

As you see there are some notational advantages with respect to use
`itertools.starmap`. First of all, `Starmap` has a `reduce` method, so
there is no need to import `functools.reduce`; secondly, the `reduce`
method has sensible defaults:

1. the default aggregation function is `add`, so there is no need to specify it
2. the default accumulator is an empty accumulation dictionary (see
   :class:`openquake.baselib.AccumDict`) working as a `Counter`, so there
   is no need to specify it.

You can of course override the defaults, so if you really want to
return a `Counter` you can do

>>> res3 = Starmap(count, arglist).reduce(acc=collections.Counter())

In the engine we use nearly always callables that return dictionaries
and we aggregate nearly always with the addition operator, so such
defaults are very convenient. You are encouraged to do the same, since we
found that approach to be very flexible. Typically in a scientific
application you will return a dictionary of numpy arrays.

The parallelization algorithm used by `Starmap` will depend on the
environment variable `OQ_DISTRIBUTE`. Here are the possibilities
available at the moment:

`OQ_DISTRIBUTE` not set or set to "processpool":
  use multiprocessing
`OQ_DISTRIBUTE` set to "no":
  disable the parallelization, useful for debugging
`OQ_DISTRIBUTE` set to "celery":
   use celery, useful if you have multiple machines in a cluster
`OQ_DISTRIBUTE` set tp "zmq"
   use the zmq concurrency mechanism (experimental)

There is also an `OQ_DISTRIBUTE` = "threadpool"; however the
performance of using threads instead of processes is normally bad for the
kind of applications we are interested in (CPU-dominated, which large
tasks such that the time to spawn a new process is negligible with
respect to the time to perform the task), so it is not recommended.

If you are using a pool, is always a good idea to cleanup resources at the end
with

>>> Starmap.shutdown()

`Starmap.shutdown` is always defined. It does nothing if there is
no pool, but it is still better to call it: in the future, you may change
idea and use another parallelization strategy requiring cleanup. In this
way your code is future-proof.

The Starmap.apply API
====================================

The `Starmap` class has a very convenient classmethod `Starmap.apply`
which is used in several places in the engine. `Starmap.apply` is useful
when you have a sequence of objects that you want to split in homogenous chunks
and then apply a callable to each chunk (in parallel). For instance, in the
letter counting example discussed before, `Starmap.apply` could
be used as follows:

>>> text = 'helloworld'  # sequence of characters
>>> res3 = Starmap.apply(count, (text, mon)).reduce()
>>> assert res3 == res

The API of `Starmap.apply` is designed to extend the one of `apply`,
a builtin of Python 2; the second argument is the tuple of arguments
passed to the first argument. The difference with `apply` is that
`Starmap.apply` returns a :class:`Starmap` object so that nothing is
actually done until you iterate on it (`reduce` is doing that).

How many chunks will be produced? That depends on the parameter
`concurrent_tasks`; it it is not passed, it has a default of 5 times
the number of cores in your machine - as returned by `os.cpu_count()` -
and `Starmap.apply` will try to produce a number of chunks close to
that number. The nice thing is that it is also possible to pass a
`weight` function. Suppose for instance that instead of a list of
letters you have a list of seismic sources: some sources requires a
long computation time (such as `ComplexFaultSources`), some requires a
short computation time (such as `PointSources`). By giving an heuristic
weight to the different sources it is possible to produce chunks with
nearly homogeneous weight; in particular `PointSource` tasks will
contain a lot more sources than tasks with `ComplexFaultSources`.

It is *essential* in large computations to have a homogeneous task
distribution, otherwise you will end up having a big task dominating
the computation time (i.e. you may have 1000 cores of which 999 are free,
having finished all the short tasks, but you have to wait for days for
the single core processing the slow task). The OpenQuake engine does
a great deal of work trying to split slow sources in more manageable
fast sources.
"""
import os
import sys
import socket
import signal
import pickle
import inspect
import logging
import operator
import functools
import itertools
import traceback
import collections
import multiprocessing.dummy
import psutil
import numpy
try:
    from setproctitle import setproctitle
except ImportError:
    def setproctitle(title):
        "Do nothing"

from openquake.baselib import hdf5, config
from openquake.baselib.zeromq import zmq, Socket
from openquake.baselib.performance import Monitor, memory_rss, perf_dt

from openquake.baselib.general import (
    split_in_blocks, block_splitter, AccumDict, humansize)

cpu_count = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
GB = 1024 ** 3
OQ_DISTRIBUTE = os.environ.get('OQ_DISTRIBUTE', 'processpool').lower()
if OQ_DISTRIBUTE == 'futures':  # legacy name
    print('Warning: OQ_DISTRIBUTE=futures is deprecated', file=sys.stderr)
    OQ_DISTRIBUTE = os.environ['OQ_DISTRIBUTE'] = 'processpool'
if OQ_DISTRIBUTE not in ('no', 'processpool', 'threadpool', 'celery', 'zmq',
                         'dask'):
    raise ValueError('Invalid oq_distribute=%s' % OQ_DISTRIBUTE)

# data type for storing the performance information
task_info_dt = numpy.dtype(
    [('taskno', numpy.uint32), ('weight', numpy.float32),
     ('duration', numpy.float32), ('received', numpy.int64),
     ('mem_gb', numpy.float32)])


[docs]def oq_distribute(task=None): """ :returns: the value of OQ_DISTRIBUTE or 'processpool' """ dist = os.environ.get('OQ_DISTRIBUTE', 'processpool').lower() read_access = getattr(task, 'read_access', True) if dist.startswith('celery') and not read_access: raise ValueError('You must configure the shared_dir in openquake.cfg ' 'in order to be able to run %s with celery' % task.__name__) return dist
[docs]def check_mem_usage(monitor=Monitor(), soft_percent=None, hard_percent=None): """ Display a warning if we are running out of memory :param int mem_percent: the memory limit as a percentage """ soft_percent = soft_percent or config.memory.soft_mem_limit hard_percent = hard_percent or config.memory.hard_mem_limit used_mem_percent = psutil.virtual_memory().percent if used_mem_percent > hard_percent: raise MemoryError('Using more memory than allowed by configuration ' '(Used: %d%% / Allowed: %d%%)! Shutting down.' % (used_mem_percent, hard_percent)) elif used_mem_percent > soft_percent: hostname = socket.gethostname() logging.warn('Using over %d%% of the memory in %s!', used_mem_percent, hostname)
[docs]class Pickled(object): """ An utility to manually pickling/unpickling objects. The reason is that celery does not use the HIGHEST_PROTOCOL, so relying on celery is slower. Moreover Pickled instances have a nice string representation and length giving the size of the pickled bytestring. :param obj: the object to pickle """ def __init__(self, obj): self.clsname = obj.__class__.__name__ self.calc_id = str(getattr(obj, 'calc_id', '')) # for monitors self.username = ('[%s]' % obj.username if hasattr(obj, 'username') else '') try: self.pik = pickle.dumps(obj, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL) except TypeError as exc: # can't pickle, show the obj in the message raise TypeError('%s: %s' % (exc, obj)) def __repr__(self): """String representation of the pickled object""" return '<Pickled %s%s #%s %s>' % ( self.clsname, self.username, self.calc_id, humansize(len(self))) def __len__(self): """Length of the pickled bytestring""" return len(self.pik)
[docs] def unpickle(self): """Unpickle the underlying object""" return pickle.loads(self.pik)
[docs]def get_pickled_sizes(obj): """ Return the pickled sizes of an object and its direct attributes, ordered by decreasing size. Here is an example: >> total_size, partial_sizes = get_pickled_sizes(Monitor('')) >> total_size 345 >> partial_sizes [('_procs', 214), ('exc', 4), ('mem', 4), ('start_time', 4), ('_start_time', 4), ('duration', 4)] Notice that the sizes depend on the operating system and the machine. """ sizes = [] attrs = getattr(obj, '__dict__', {}) for name, value in attrs.items(): sizes.append((name, len(Pickled(value)))) return len(Pickled(obj)), sorted( sizes, key=lambda pair: pair[1], reverse=True)
[docs]def pickle_sequence(objects): """ Convert an iterable of objects into a list of pickled objects. If the iterable contains copies, the pickling will be done only once. If the iterable contains objects already pickled, they will not be pickled again. :param objects: a sequence of objects to pickle """ cache = {} out = [] for obj in objects: obj_id = id(obj) if obj_id not in cache: if isinstance(obj, Pickled): # already pickled cache[obj_id] = obj else: # pickle the object cache[obj_id] = Pickled(obj) out.append(cache[obj_id]) return out
[docs]class Result(object): """ :param val: value to return or exception instance :param mon: Monitor instance :param tb_str: traceback string (empty if there was no exception) """ def __init__(self, val, mon, tb_str='', count=0): self.pik = Pickled(val) self.mon = mon self.tb_str = tb_str self.count = count
[docs] def get(self): """ Returns the underlying value or raise the underlying exception """ val = self.pik.unpickle() if self.tb_str and self.tb_str != 'TASK_ENDED': etype = val.__class__ msg = '\n%s%s: %s' % (self.tb_str, etype.__name__, val) if issubclass(etype, KeyError): raise RuntimeError(msg) # nicer message else: raise etype(msg) return val
[docs] @classmethod def new(cls, func, args, mon, splice=False, count=0): """ :returns: a new Result instance """ try: with mon: val = func(*args) except StopIteration: res = Result(None, mon, 'TASK_ENDED') except Exception: _etype, exc, tb = sys.exc_info() res = Result(exc, mon, ''.join(traceback.format_tb(tb)), count=count) else: res = Result(val, mon, count=count) res.splice = splice return res
dummy_mon = Monitor() dummy_mon.backurl = None
[docs]def safely_call(func, args, monitor=dummy_mon): """ Call the given function with the given arguments safely, i.e. by trapping the exceptions. Return a pair (result, exc_type) where exc_type is None if no exceptions occur, otherwise it is the exception class and the result is a string containing error message and traceback. :param func: the function to call :param args: the arguments """ isgenfunc = inspect.isgeneratorfunction(func) monitor.operation = 'total ' + func.__name__ if hasattr(args[0], 'unpickle'): # args is a list of Pickled objects args = [a.unpickle() for a in args] if monitor is dummy_mon: # in the DbServer assert not isgenfunc, func return Result.new(func, args, monitor) mon = args[-1] mon.operation = 'total ' + func.__name__ mon.measuremem = True if mon is not monitor: mon.children.append(monitor) # monitor is a child of mon mon.weight = getattr(args[0], 'weight', 1.) # used in task_info if monitor.backurl is None and isgenfunc: def newfunc(*args): return list(func(*args)) return Result.new(newfunc, args, mon, splice=True) elif monitor.backurl is None: # regular function return Result.new(func, args, mon) with Socket(monitor.backurl, zmq.PUSH, 'connect') as zsocket: if inspect.isgeneratorfunction(func): gfunc = func else: def gfunc(*args): yield func(*args) gobj = gfunc(*args) for count in itertools.count(): res = Result.new(next, (gobj,), mon, count=count) # StopIteration -> TASK_ENDED try: zsocket.send(res) except Exception: # like OverflowError _etype, exc, tb = sys.exc_info() err = Result(exc, mon, ''.join(traceback.format_tb(tb)), count=count) zsocket.send(err) if res.tb_str == 'TASK_ENDED': break mon.duration = 0 return zsocket.num_sent
if OQ_DISTRIBUTE.startswith('celery'): from celery.result import ResultSet from celery import Celery from celery.task import task app = Celery('openquake') app.config_from_object('openquake.engine.celeryconfig') safetask = task(safely_call, queue='celery') # has to be global def _iter_native(task_ids, results): # helper for task_id, result_dict in ResultSet(results).iter_native(): task_ids.remove(task_id) yield result_dict['result'] elif OQ_DISTRIBUTE == 'dask': from dask.distributed import Client, as_completed
[docs]class IterResult(object): """ :param iresults: an iterator over Result objects :param taskname: the name of the task :param done_total: a function returning the number of done tasks and the total :param sent: the number of bytes sent (0 if OQ_DISTRIBUTE=no) :param progress: a logging function for the progress report :param hdf5: if given, hdf5 file where to append the performance information """ def __init__(self, iresults, taskname, argnames, sent, hdf5=None): self.iresults = iresults self.name = taskname self.argnames = ' '.join(argnames) self.sent = sent self.hdf5 = hdf5 self.received = [] def __iter__(self): self.received = [] for result in self.iresults: check_mem_usage() # log a warning if too much memory is used if isinstance(result, BaseException): # this happens with WorkerLostError with celery raise result elif isinstance(result, Result): val = result.get() self.received.append(len(result.pik)) else: # this should never happen raise ValueError(result) if OQ_DISTRIBUTE == 'processpool': mem_gb = (memory_rss(os.getpid()) + sum( memory_rss(pid) for pid in Starmap.pids)) / GB else: mem_gb = numpy.nan if not self.name.startswith('_'): # no info for private tasks self.save_task_info(result.mon, mem_gb) if result.splice: yield from val else: yield val if self.received and not self.name.startswith('_'): tot = sum(self.received) max_per_output = max(self.received) msg = ('Received %s from %d tasks, maximum per output %s') logging.info(msg, humansize(tot), len(self.received), humansize(max_per_output))
[docs] def save_task_info(self, mon, mem_gb): if self.hdf5: mon.hdf5 = self.hdf5 duration = mon.duration t = (mon.task_no, mon.weight, duration, self.received[-1], mem_gb) data = numpy.array([t], task_info_dt) hdf5.extend(self.hdf5['task_info/' + self.name], data, argnames=self.argnames, sent=self.sent) mon.flush()
[docs] def reduce(self, agg=operator.add, acc=None): if acc is None: acc = AccumDict() for result in self: acc = agg(acc, result) return acc
[docs] @classmethod def sum(cls, iresults): """ Sum the data transfer information of a set of results """ res = object.__new__(cls) res.received = [] res.sent = 0 for iresult in iresults: res.received.extend(iresult.received) res.sent += iresult.sent name = iresult.name.split('#', 1)[0] if hasattr(res, 'name'): assert res.name.split('#', 1)[0] == name, (res.name, name) else: res.name = iresult.name.split('#')[0] return res
[docs]def init_workers(): """Waiting function, used to wake up the process pool""" setproctitle('oq-worker') # unregister raiseMasterKilled in oq-workers to avoid deadlock # since processes are terminated via pool.terminate() signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal.SIG_DFL) # prctl is still useful (on Linux) to terminate all spawned processes # when master is killed via SIGKILL try: import prctl except ImportError: pass else: # if the parent dies, the children die prctl.set_pdeathsig(signal.SIGKILL)
[docs]class Starmap(object): calc_id = None hdf5 = None pids = () task_ids = []
[docs] @classmethod def init(cls, poolsize=None, distribute=OQ_DISTRIBUTE): if distribute == 'processpool' and not hasattr(cls, 'pool'): orig_handler = signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN) cls.pool = multiprocessing.Pool(poolsize, init_workers) signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, orig_handler) cls.pids = [proc.pid for proc in cls.pool._pool] elif distribute == 'threadpool' and not hasattr(cls, 'pool'): cls.pool = multiprocessing.dummy.Pool(poolsize) elif distribute == 'no' and hasattr(cls, 'pool'): cls.shutdown() elif distribute == 'dask': cls.dask_client = Client()
[docs] @classmethod def shutdown(cls, poolsize=None): if hasattr(cls, 'pool'): cls.pool.close() cls.pool.terminate() cls.pool.join() del cls.pool cls.pids = [] if hasattr(cls, 'dask_client'): del cls.dask_client
[docs] @classmethod def apply(cls, task, args, concurrent_tasks=cpu_count * 3, maxweight=None, weight=lambda item: 1, key=lambda item: 'Unspecified', distribute=None, progress=logging.info): """ Apply a task to a tuple of the form (sequence, \*other_args) by first splitting the sequence in chunks, according to the weight of the elements and possibly to a key (see :func: `openquake.baselib.general.split_in_blocks`). :param task: a task to run in parallel :param args: the arguments to be passed to the task function :param concurrent_tasks: hint about how many tasks to generate :param maxweight: if not None, used to split the tasks :param weight: function to extract the weight of an item in arg0 :param key: function to extract the kind of an item in arg0 :param distribute: if not given, inferred from OQ_DISTRIBUTE :param progress: logging function to use (default logging.info) :returns: an :class:`IterResult` object """ arg0 = args[0] # this is assumed to be a sequence args = args[1:] mon = args[-1] if maxweight: chunks = block_splitter(arg0, maxweight, weight, key) else: chunks = split_in_blocks(arg0, concurrent_tasks or 1, weight, key) task_args = [(ch,) + args for ch in chunks] return cls(task, task_args, mon, distribute, progress).submit_all()
def __init__(self, task_func, task_args, monitor=None, distribute=None, progress=logging.info): self.__class__.init(distribute=distribute or OQ_DISTRIBUTE) self.task_func = task_func self.monitor = monitor or Monitor(task_func.__name__) self.name = self.monitor.operation or task_func.__name__ self.task_args = task_args self.distribute = distribute or oq_distribute(task_func) self.progress = progress # a task can be a function, a class or an instance with a __call__ if inspect.isfunction(task_func): self.argnames = inspect.getargspec(task_func).args elif inspect.isclass(task_func): self.argnames = inspect.getargspec(task_func.__init__).args[1:] else: # instance with a __call__ method self.argnames = inspect.getargspec(task_func.__call__).args[1:] self.receiver = 'tcp://%s:%s' % ( config.dbserver.listen, config.dbserver.receiver_ports) self.sent = numpy.zeros(len(self.argnames)) self.monitor.backurl = None # overridden later h5 = self.monitor.hdf5 task_info = 'task_info/' + self.name if h5 and task_info not in h5: # first time # task_info and performance_data should be generated in advance hdf5.create(h5, task_info, task_info_dt) if h5 and 'performance_data' not in h5: hdf5.create(h5, 'performance_data', perf_dt) @property def num_tasks(self): """ The number of tasks, if known, or the empty string otherwise. """ try: return len(self.task_args) except TypeError: # generators have no len return '' # NB: returning -1 breaks openquake.hazardlib.tests.calc. # hazard_curve_new_test.HazardCurvesTestCase02 :-(
[docs] def log_percent(self): """ Log the progress of the computation in percentage """ done = self.total - self.todo if not self.name.startswith('_'): # public task percent = int(float(done) / self.total * 100) if not hasattr(self, 'prev_percent'): # first time self.prev_percent = 0 self.progress('Sent %s of data in %d task(s)', humansize(self.sent.sum()), self.total) elif percent > self.prev_percent: self.progress('%s %3d%%', self.name, percent) self.prev_percent = percent return done
def _genargs(self, pickle=True): """ Add .task_no and .weight to the monitor and yield back the arguments by pickling them. """ for task_no, args in enumerate(self.task_args, 1): mon = args[-1] assert isinstance(mon, Monitor), mon # add incremental task number and task weight mon.task_no = task_no self.calc_id = getattr(mon, 'calc_id', None) if pickle: args = pickle_sequence(args) self.sent += numpy.array([len(p) for p in args]) yield args
[docs] def submit_all(self, progress=logging.info): """ :returns: an IterResult object """ if self.num_tasks == 1 or self.distribute == 'no': it = self._iter_sequential() else: it = getattr(self, '_iter_' + self.distribute)() self.todo = self.total = next(it) return IterResult(it, self.name, self.argnames, self.sent, self.monitor.hdf5)
[docs] def reduce(self, agg=operator.add, acc=None): """ Submit all tasks and reduce the results """ return self.submit_all().reduce(agg, acc)
def __iter__(self): return iter(self.submit_all()) def _iter_sequential(self): with Socket(self.receiver, zmq.PULL, 'bind') as socket: self.monitor.backurl = 'tcp://%s:%s' % ( config.dbserver.host, socket.port) allargs = list(self._genargs(pickle=False)) results = (safely_call(self.task_func, args, self.monitor) for args in allargs) yield from self._loop(results, iter(socket), len(allargs)) def _iter_processpool(self): safefunc = functools.partial(safely_call, self.task_func, monitor=self.monitor) allargs = list(self._genargs()) yield len(allargs) for res in self.pool.imap_unordered(safefunc, allargs): yield res self.log_percent() self.todo -= 1 self.log_percent() _iter_threadpool = _iter_processpool def _loop(self, ierr, isocket, num_tasks): self.total = self.todo = num_tasks yield num_tasks while self.todo: try: err = next(ierr) except StopIteration: # sent everything already pass else: if isinstance(err, Exception): # TaskRevokedError raise err res = next(isocket) if self.calc_id and self.calc_id != res.mon.calc_id: logging.warn('Discarding a result from job %s, since this ' 'is job %d', res.mon.calc_id, self.calc_id) continue elif res.tb_str == 'TASK_ENDED': self.log_percent() self.todo -= 1 else: yield res self.log_percent() def _iter_celery(self): with Socket(self.receiver, zmq.PULL, 'bind') as socket: self.monitor.backurl = 'tcp://%s:%s' % ( config.dbserver.host, socket.port) tasks = [] for piks in self._genargs(): task = safetask.delay(self.task_func, piks, self.monitor) # populating Starmap.task_ids, used in celery_cleanup self.task_ids.append(task.task_id) tasks.append(task) yield from self._loop(_iter_native(self.task_ids, tasks), iter(socket), len(tasks)) def _iter_zmq(self): with Socket(self.receiver, zmq.PULL, 'bind') as socket: self.monitor.backurl = 'tcp://%s:%s' % ( config.dbserver.host, socket.port) task_in_url = 'tcp://%s:%s' % (config.dbserver.host, config.zworkers.task_in_port) with Socket(task_in_url, zmq.PUSH, 'connect') as sender: num_tasks = 0 for args in self._genargs(): sender.send((self.task_func, args, self.monitor)) num_tasks += 1 yield from self._loop(iter(range(num_tasks)), iter(socket), num_tasks) def _iter_dask(self): safefunc = functools.partial(safely_call, self.task_func, monitor=self.monitor) allargs = list(self._genargs()) yield len(allargs) cl = self.dask_client for fut in as_completed(cl.map(safefunc, cl.scatter(allargs))): yield fut.result()
[docs]def sequential_apply(task, args, concurrent_tasks=cpu_count * 3, weight=lambda item: 1, key=lambda item: 'Unspecified'): """ Apply sequentially task to args by splitting args[0] in blocks """ chunks = split_in_blocks(args[0], concurrent_tasks or 1, weight, key) task_args = [(ch,) + args[1:] for ch in chunks] return itertools.starmap(task, task_args)
[docs]def count(word, mon): """ Used as example in the documentation """ return collections.Counter(word)