Run distributed tensorflow example with error - tensorflow

Question

I have three node to run a distributed tensorflow, which is two worker(one has GPU,one not)and one ps(without GPU).The code is below:
from __future__ import print_function
import tensorflow as tf
import sys
import time
# cluster specification
parameter_servers = ["192.168.1.102:2222"]
workers = [ "192.168.1.103:2223",
"192.168.1.104:2224"]
cluster = tf.train.ClusterSpec({"ps":parameter_servers, "worker":workers})
# input flags
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string("job_name", "", "Either 'ps' or 'worker'")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("task_index", 0, "Index of task within the job")
FLAGS = tf.app.flags.FLAGS
# start a server for a specific task
server = tf.train.Server(cluster,
job_name=FLAGS.job_name,
task_index=FLAGS.task_index)
# config
batch_size = 100
learning_rate = 0.001
training_epochs = 20
logs_path = "/tmp/mnist/1"
# load mnist data set
from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets('MNIST_data', one_hot=True)
if FLAGS.job_name == "ps":
server.join()
elif FLAGS.job_name == "worker":
# Between-graph replication
with tf.device(tf.train.replica_device_setter(
worker_device="/job:worker/task:%d" % FLAGS.task_index,
cluster=cluster)):
# count the number of updates
global_step = tf.get_variable('global_step', [],
initializer = tf.constant_initializer(0),
trainable = False)
# input images
with tf.name_scope('input'):
# None -> batch size can be any size, 784 -> flattened mnist image
x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=[None, 784], name="x-input")
# target 10 output classes
y_ = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=[None, 10], name="y-input")
# model parameters will change during training so we use tf.Variable
tf.set_random_seed(1)
with tf.name_scope("weights"):
W1 = tf.Variable(tf.random_normal([784, 100]))
W2 = tf.Variable(tf.random_normal([100, 10]))
# bias
with tf.name_scope("biases"):
b1 = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([100]))
b2 = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([10]))
# implement model
with tf.name_scope("softmax"):
# y is our prediction
z2 = tf.add(tf.matmul(x,W1),b1)
a2 = tf.nn.sigmoid(z2)
z3 = tf.add(tf.matmul(a2,W2),b2)
y = tf.nn.softmax(z3)
# specify cost function
with tf.name_scope('cross_entropy'):
# this is our cost
cross_entropy = tf.reduce_mean(-tf.reduce_sum(y_ * tf.log(y), reduction_indices=[1]))
# specify optimizer
with tf.name_scope('train'):
# optimizer is an "operation" which we can execute in a session
grad_op = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(learning_rate)
train_op = grad_op.minimize(cross_entropy, global_step=global_step)
with tf.name_scope('Accuracy'):
# accuracy
correct_prediction = tf.equal(tf.argmax(y,1), tf.argmax(y_,1))
accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(correct_prediction, tf.float32))
# create a summary for our cost and accuracy
tf.scalar_summary("cost", cross_entropy)
tf.scalar_summary("accuracy", accuracy)
# merge all summaries into a single "operation" which we can execute in a session
summary_op = tf.merge_all_summaries()
init_op = tf.initialize_all_variables()
print("Variables initialized ...")
sv = tf.train.Supervisor(is_chief=(FLAGS.task_index == 0),
global_step=global_step,
init_op=init_op)
begin_time = time.time()
frequency = 100
with sv.prepare_or_wait_for_session(server.target) as sess:
# create log writer object (this will log on every machine)
writer = tf.train.SummaryWriter(logs_path, graph=tf.get_default_graph())
# perform training cycles
start_time = time.time()
for epoch in range(training_epochs):
# number of batches in one epoch
batch_count = int(mnist.train.num_examples/batch_size)
count = 0
for i in range(batch_count):
batch_x, batch_y = mnist.train.next_batch(batch_size)
# perform the operations we defined earlier on batch
_, cost, summary, step = sess.run(
[train_op, cross_entropy, summary_op, global_step],
feed_dict={x: batch_x, y_: batch_y})
writer.add_summary(summary, step)
count += 1
if count % frequency == 0 or i+1 == batch_count:
elapsed_time = time.time() - start_time
start_time = time.time()
print("Step: %d," % (step+1),
" Epoch: %2d," % (epoch+1),
" Batch: %3d of %3d," % (i+1, batch_count),
" Cost: %.4f," % cost,
" AvgTime: %3.2fms" % float(elapsed_time*1000/frequency))
count = 0
print("Test-Accuracy: %2.2f" % sess.run(accuracy, feed_dict={x: mnist.test.images, y_: mnist.test.labels}))
print("Total Time: %3.2fs" % float(time.time() - begin_time))
print("Final Cost: %.4f" % cost)
sv.stop()
print("done")
I run the above code on my three node with instruction below in terminal:
pc-01$ python example.py --job-name="ps" --task_index=0
pc-02$ python example.py --job-name="worker" --task_index=0
pc-03$ python example.py --job-name="worker" --task_index=1
However, after the Variables initialized, I met a question that the terminal of worker always print :
I tensor flow/core/distributed_runtime/master.cc:193] CreateSession still waiting for response from worker:／job:worker/replica:0/task:0
and the terminal of ps don't proceed.
The IP of ps is 192.168.1.102, and the IP of the worker is 192.168.1.103,192.168.1.104,just like the code above.
Anyone can help me?

Answer 1

I guess filtering out device should help here. Could you please try adding device_filter to your session ?
config = tf.ConfigProto(
allow_soft_placement=True,
log_device_placement=False,
device_filters=["/job:ps", "/job:worker/task:%d" % FLAGS.task_index])
with sv.prepare_or_wait_for_session(server.target, config=\config) as sess:
This should fix the issue.