Hi Alan and Petar, Thanks! I tried building ictce-toolchain. I wrote module and .eb files for icc, ifort, impi and imkl and succeeded to install ictce toolchain without actually re-installing the components. Unfortunately, when trying to use this ictce toolchain (to build JasPer library), EasyBuild (EB) complained about missing interface library fftw3xc_intel_pic. I guess this is something that is not installed by default when running Intel's ./install.sh, but an EB extra.
Since different software packages can usually be build/installed with varying options (leading to different libraries), interfacing EB toolchains with components not build using EB, may be quite hard in general. If one really needs to this properly, it probably has to be done by editing the easybuild blocks icc.py, and maybe make a separate, "almost duplicate" of the existing install tree. That requires a lot of time and effort. Likely a lot easier option is to contact the person who has the Intel tar-balls for the compilers, MPI and MKL, borrow the sources and install all the components using EB. I'll try that next :) Petar, I'm interested to see how Cray environment is supported! What is the current status of the Cray support and when are you planning the release? Juha ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan O'Cais" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 29 August, 2014 2:03:02 PM > Subject: Re: [easybuild] Using EasyBuild on top of existing module > environment and software > Hi Juha, > I do this for a particular MPI version we use here. Within a hierarchical > module naming scheme (HMNS), it's a little extra work because you have to > create EasyBuild compatible modules and also "pseudo" easyconfigs so that EB > can figure out where things go in the hierarchy. > As an example, here what I added to the existing MPI module to make it > EB-compatible: > # Fool EasyBuild that this is an EB module > setenv EBROOTMPICH2 ${mpi_home} > setenv EBVERSIONMPICH2 Parastation-5.0.27 > conflict MPICH2 > # Need to add to the hierarchy when loading the MPI version > module use > /usr/local/eb/hierarchical/installed/modules/all/MPI/GCC/4.9.1/MPICH2/Parastation-5.0.27 > and here's the corresponding pseudo-easyconfig: > # This file is a dummy as I'm using the system installed MPICH2 > name = 'MPICH2' > version = "Parastation-5.0.27" > homepage = ' http://www.par-tec.com/products/parastation-mpi.html ' > description = """ParaStation MPI provides a standard interface for parallel > applications that require either MPI or MPI-2 library functionality. """ > toolchain = {'name': 'GCC', 'version': '4.9.1'} > moduleclass = 'mpi' > As it stands there's no automatic method for this, you have to separate > compiler from toolchain for the HMNS to work, so you will be forced into > faking it for the compiler, MPI and math libraries separately. It takes a > little understanding but is very do-able. > Alan > On 29 August 2014 11:43, Juha Lento < [email protected] > wrote: > > I would like to use EasyBuild to install application level software stack > > on > > two systems, one "regular" PC cluster, and one Cray XC30 system. I would > > like to use the compilers, MPI libraries and math libraries that are > > already > > installed on the machines as the toolchain. What would be the best approach > > to use EasyBuild framework in this kind of situation? > > > Best regards, > > > Juha > > -- > Dr. Alan O'Cais > Application Support > Juelich Supercomputing Centre > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich, Germany > Phone: +49 2461 61 5213 > Fax: +49 2461 61 6656 > E-mail: [email protected] > WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher > Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), > Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, > Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
