Hi Jack, In principle we are interested in BG/Q toolchains at JSC but we are not actively working on it for the moment. We still have some tinkering and burning-in to do with our cluster installation before we'll consider trying some BG/Q porting. In particular the front-end/back-end building on BG/Q is likely to throw up some issues, though perhaps some of these might be solved (or at least known) already within Cray toolchains.
Alan On 4 February 2015 at 02:51, Jack Perdue <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Howdy all, As I deploy my limited Python skills in trying to create a workable EB environment using IBM's XL compiler/math suite[*] on a Power7 (ppc64) based cluster, I was just curious who else is working the problem so I could compare notes. I've managed to properly alter gcc.py to not use the unsupported march=native (and fallback to mcpu=native) and I've got a hack in tools/systemtools.py to return "PPC" instead of "UNKNOWN" for now. So I can build the full GCC based easyconfigs (190 packages for now), but I need to get IBM XL compilers going too (working on it...). I know there was at least one name mentioned at SC14, but I'm just curious if there are more (and also curious of an update from that person). Also, anyone dealing with (IBM) BGQ and EB, I'm interested in progress. Thanks, jack p.s./[*] [below] asthetically... would "xl" vs. "ibmxl" be preferred by most users? (I see merits in both naming standards though "xlc" would fit more nicely with "icc" and "GCC") Along those lines... is the -[releasedate] helpful? (python_virtenv)[j-perdue@curie1 easyconfigs]$ module avail ibm ------------------------------------------ /software/easybuild/modulefiles/all/Core ------------------------------------------- ibmurt/1.2.0.0-120321 ibmxlc/13.1.0.0-140510 ibmxlf/15.1.0.0-140509 ibmxlsmp/4.1.0.0-140411 ibmxl/2014.12.19 ibmxlcxlf/2015.1.1 ibmxlmass/8.1.0.0-140423 -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]> WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
