Intel MPI benchmark fails when # bytes > 128: IMB-EXT - parallel-processing

Question

I just installed Linux and Intel MPI to two machines:
(1) Quite old (~8 years old) SuperMicro server, which has 24 cores (Intel Xeon X7542 X 4). 32 GB memory.
OS: CentOS 7.5
(2) New HP ProLiant DL380 server, which has 32 cores (Intel Xeon Gold 6130 X 2). 64 GB memory.
OS: OpenSUSE Leap 15
After installing OS and Intel MPI, I compiled intel MPI benchmark and ran it:
$ mpirun -np 4 ./IMB-EXT
It is quite surprising that I find the same error when running IMB-EXT and IMB-RMA, though I have a different OS and everything (even GCC version used to compile Intel MPI benchmark is different -- in CentOS, I used GCC 6.5.0, and in OpenSUSE, I used GCC 7.3.1).
On the CentOS machine, I get:
#---------------------------------------------------
# Benchmarking Unidir_Put
# #processes = 2
# ( 2 additional processes waiting in MPI_Barrier)
#---------------------------------------------------
#
# MODE: AGGREGATE
#
#bytes #repetitions t[usec] Mbytes/sec
0 1000 0.05 0.00
4 1000 30.56 0.13
8 1000 31.53 0.25
16 1000 30.99 0.52
32 1000 30.93 1.03
64 1000 30.30 2.11
128 1000 30.31 4.22
and on the OpenSUSE machine, I get
#---------------------------------------------------
# Benchmarking Unidir_Put
# #processes = 2
# ( 2 additional processes waiting in MPI_Barrier)
#---------------------------------------------------
#
# MODE: AGGREGATE
#
#bytes #repetitions t[usec] Mbytes/sec
0 1000 0.04 0.00
4 1000 14.40 0.28
8 1000 14.04 0.57
16 1000 14.10 1.13
32 1000 13.96 2.29
64 1000 13.98 4.58
128 1000 14.08 9.09
When I don't use mpirun (which means there is only one process to run IMB-EXT), the benchmark runs through, but Unidir_Put needs >=2 processes, so doesn't help so much, and I also find that the functions with MPI_Put and MPI_Get is extremely slower than I expected (from my experience). Also, using MVAPICH on the OpenSUSE machine did not help. The output is:
#---------------------------------------------------
# Benchmarking Unidir_Put
# #processes = 2
# ( 6 additional processes waiting in MPI_Barrier)
#---------------------------------------------------
#
# MODE: AGGREGATE
#
#bytes #repetitions t[usec] Mbytes/sec
0 1000 0.03 0.00
4 1000 17.37 0.23
8 1000 17.08 0.47
16 1000 17.23 0.93
32 1000 17.56 1.82
64 1000 17.06 3.75
128 1000 17.20 7.44
===================================================================================
= BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES
= PID 49213 RUNNING AT iron-0-1
= EXIT CODE: 139
= CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES
= YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES
===================================================================================
YOUR APPLICATION TERMINATED WITH THE EXIT STRING: Segmentation fault (signal 11)
This typically refers to a problem with your application.
Please see the FAQ page for debugging suggestions
update: I tested OpenMPI, and it goes through smoothly (although my application does not recommend using openmpi, and I still don't understand why Intel MPI or MVAPICH doesn't work...)
#---------------------------------------------------
# Benchmarking Unidir_Put
# #processes = 2
# ( 2 additional processes waiting in MPI_Barrier)
#---------------------------------------------------
#
# MODE: AGGREGATE
#
#bytes #repetitions t[usec] Mbytes/sec
0 1000 0.06 0.00
4 1000 0.23 17.44
8 1000 0.22 35.82
16 1000 0.22 72.36
32 1000 0.22 144.98
64 1000 0.22 285.76
128 1000 0.30 430.29
256 1000 0.39 650.78
512 1000 0.51 1008.31
1024 1000 0.84 1214.42
2048 1000 1.86 1100.29
4096 1000 7.31 560.59
8192 1000 15.24 537.67
16384 1000 15.39 1064.82
32768 1000 15.70 2086.51
65536 640 12.31 5324.63
131072 320 10.24 12795.03
262144 160 12.49 20993.49
524288 80 30.21 17356.93
1048576 40 81.20 12913.67
2097152 20 199.20 10527.72
4194304 10 394.02 10644.77
Is there any chance that I am missing something in installing MPI, or installing OS in these servers? Actually, I assume that OS is the problem, but not sure where to start...
Thanks a lot in advance,
Jae

Answer 1

Although this question is well written, you were not explicit about
Intel MPI benchmark (please add header)
Intel MPI
Open MPI
MVAPICH
supported host network fabrics - for each MPI distribution
selected fabric while running MPI benchmark
Compilation settings
Debugging this kind of trouble with disparate host machines, multiple Linux distributions and compiler versions can be quite hard. Remote debugging on StackOverflow is even harder.
First of all ensure reproducibility. This seems to be the case. One of many debugging approaches, the one I would recommend, is to reduce complexity of the system as a whole, test smaller sub-systems and start shifting responsibility to third parties. You may replace self-compiled executables with software packages provided by distribution software/package repositories or third parties like Conda.
Intel recently started to provide its libraries through YUM/APT repos as well as for Conda and PyPI. I found that helps a lot with reproducible deployments of HPC clusters and even runtime/development environments. I recommend to use it for CentOS 7.5.
YUM/APT repository for Intel MKL, Intel IPP, Intel DAAL, and Intel® Distribution for Python* (for Linux*):
Installing Intel® Performance Libraries and Intel® Distribution for Python* Using YUM Repository
Installing Intel® Performance Libraries and Intel® Distribution for Python* Using APT Repository
Conda* package/ Anaconda Cloud* support (Intel MKL, Intel IPP, Intel DAAL, Intel Distribution for Python):
Installing Intel Distribution for Python and Intel Performance Libraries with Anaconda
Available Intel packages can be viewed here
Install from the Python Package Index (PyPI) using pip (Intel MKL, Intel IPP, Intel DAAL)
Installing the Intel® Distribution for Python* and Intel® Performance Libraries with pip and PyPI
I do not know much about OpenSUSE Leap 15.