[Users] questions about compilation

[Roland Haas]

Hello Joel,

ohoh. Sorry to hear that you had so much trouble on stampede2. I think I have a set of working files for both its knl and skx partitions yet they may be only in the master or maybe even a separate (rhaas/stampede2) branch of simfactory.

Usually it is best to use a tested system yes. Also good is if the system has a fast queue turnaround time.

Yours,
Roland

On December 22, 2017 12:15:52 PM EST, Joel Giedt <giedtj at rpi.edu> wrote:
>Hi, I struggled for days trying to get ET installed on Stampede2 (no
>problems on Stampede1, so some issue about the different environment,
>which
>is supposed to be KNL oriented).  It worked 100% with very little
>intervention on my part for Bridges, compiling in about an hour.  On
>Stampede2, after some suggestions from various people I managed to get
>all
>the object files and libraries built for all the thorns, but then it
>didn't
>like a couple of the arguments being passed to ld, which are hard to
>fix
>because it's not at all obvious how to modify the make-cycle.  I could
>go
>into all the details of snags I hit for anyone who is interested.
>Anyways,
>as Roland suggests, trying a different resource might be a very good
>idea
>because the process seems rather sensitive the local environment.
>--Joel
>
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>[mailto:users-bounces at einsteintoolkit.org] On Behalf Of Roland Haas
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>To: 林家暉 <r06222015 at ntu.edu.tw>
>Cc: rhaas at ncsa.illinois.edu; users at einsteintoolkit.org
>Subject: Re: [Users] questions about compilation
>
>Hello Chia Hui,
>
>sorry for the long delay, I got caught up with Christmas preparations.
>
>> It also took several hours for me to compile the code which should be
>
>> down in 20 min. Did the similar situation occur when Edison is tested
>
>> last time ?
>No I do not think that it took so long to compile on edison before. I
>am
>tempted to see if using the gnu compiler would be any faster. This is
>right
>now so painfully slow as to render the system almost unusable.
>it also does not help if one tries to compile in /dev/shm or from
>within an
>interactive job so the "usual" remedies for slow compilation do not
>apply.
>
>> Actually there are two other clusters I can use. But they are not 
>> supported by Einstein toolkit . I have tried to compile the code on 
>> them but failed since the required information for a new cluster is 
>> quite detailed and I cannot find all of them. Will you suggest me to 
>> shift to another cluster which is unsupported ?
>If you want to use a different cluster then I would try and start from
>the
>files for a similar, working one. Eg for Cray machines the
>bluewaters-gnu
>files are a good starting point or maybe the cori ones (it being a
>newer
>cray).
>
>We have a wiki page: 
>
>https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Configuring_a_new_machine
>
>that describes the procedure and would be happy to help out on the
>mailing
>list (or on the system if one of us has an account there).
>
>Yours,
>Roland
>
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