#1757: Stampede needs to be updated ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: hinder | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: critical | Milestone: Component: Other | Version: development version Keywords: backport | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- The SimFactory definition for Stampede currently uses the intel/13.1.1.163 compiler. This compiler will be removed next Tuesday (see https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/user-guides/stampede/intel15). According to TACC, the current default is the older intel/13.0.2.146, and this is the recommended and default compiler, and will remain so. Both compilers have the "restrict" keyword blacklisted in Cactus (#1276). They will install intel/15.0.1 at the end of April. There is also intel/14.0.1.106 available, but it is labeled as "limited software stack". It is not clear why they are removing a newer compiler, or why they chose to do this a month before installing an even newer one.
Our options are:
1. Upgrade to intel/14.0.1.106, which is labeled as "limited software stack" 2. Downgrade to intel/13.0.2.146, which is the default and will remain so for a while
This should be done both for the trunk and the release branch. I suggest that option 2 is the most conservative, and probably the easiest, as there might be libraries which are not compiled for intel/14.0.1.106.