[Distributed] Automatically setting the number of OMP threads for tra…

…iners (dmlc#2812)

* set omp thread.

* add comment.

* fix.

tools/launch.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import logging
 import time
 import json
+import multiprocessing
 from threading import Thread
 
 DEFAULT_PORT = 30050
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@ def submit_jobs(args, udf_command):
     client_cmd = client_cmd + ' ' + 'DGL_NUM_SERVER=' + str(args.num_servers)
     if os.environ.get('OMP_NUM_THREADS') is not None:
         client_cmd = client_cmd + ' ' + 'OMP_NUM_THREADS=' + os.environ.get('OMP_NUM_THREADS')
+    else:
+        client_cmd = client_cmd + ' ' + 'OMP_NUM_THREADS=' + str(args.num_omp_threads)
     if os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH') is not None:
         client_cmd = client_cmd + ' ' + 'PYTHONPATH=' + os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH')
 
@@ -111,6 +114,8 @@ def main():
                         the contents of current directory will be rsyncd')
     parser.add_argument('--num_trainers', type=int,
                         help='The number of trainer processes per machine')
+    parser.add_argument('--num_omp_threads', type=int,
+                        help='The number of OMP threads per trainer')
     parser.add_argument('--num_samplers', type=int, default=0,
                         help='The number of sampler processes per trainer process')
     parser.add_argument('--num_servers', type=int,
@@ -137,6 +142,12 @@ def main():
             'A user has to specify a partition configuration file with --part_config.'
     assert args.ip_config is not None, \
             'A user has to specify an IP configuration file with --ip_config.'
+    if args.num_omp_threads is None:
+        # Here we assume all machines have the same number of CPU cores as the machine
+        # where the launch script runs.
+        args.num_omp_threads = max(multiprocessing.cpu_count() // 2 // args.num_trainers, 1)
+        print('The number of OMP threads per trainer is set to', args.num_omp_threads)
+
     udf_command = str(udf_command[0])
     if 'python' not in udf_command:
         raise RuntimeError("DGL launching script can only support Python executable file.")