hi all,
i've been compiling the latest ET on marenostrum 4, and there were a couple of issues i'd like to ask:
1. on marenostrum, they bundle a lot of mpi-related tools on modules. in particular, one of the default modules that is loaded is called 'impi'. this module sets the global variable $MPI to 'impi', ie
$ echo $MPI impi
this seems to severely interfere with the Cactus building process. at the configuration stage i get the following:
Configuring with flesh MPI Warning: use of flesh MPI via MPI option is deprecated and should be replaced with the thorn ExternalLibraries/MPI and its MPI_DIR option MPI selected, but no known MPI method - what is "impi" ?
to workaround this problem, i've unloaded the module (module unload impi), which undefines the $MPI variable. after this, the configuration stage works fine. this seems to me like a bug, though. after all, a cluster-wide global variable called $MPI seems like a natural thing to exist in a lot of these machines... should the building of Cactus rely on the non-existence of such a variable?
the other inconvenient thing is that, by unloading the impi module, one also removes from $PATH the mpirun command. so one has to unload the module for compiling the code, and then load it back to be able to run it.
2. i was not able to compile with any of the provided intel compilers (with gcc it worked fine). i know there are known issues with some versions of the intel compilers; is there some sort of list of intel compilers that are known to work? i could maybe try to ask the technical support if they could make those specific versions available...
thanks, Miguel