Hi all, Is there any hope for https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5072 along with the 2018b toolchains?
Best regards, Mikael On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear EasyBuilders, > > The next update of the foss/intel common toolchains (2018b) is due soon > (end of June, cfr. [1]), so I've started looking into which options we have > in order to have sufficient time to thoroughly test the toolchain > definitions... > > First of all: I think we can/should bump the GCC underneath both > foss/2018b and intel/2018b to v7.3.0. > > We stuck with GCC 6.4.0 with the 2018a update because of concerns w.r.t. > the compatibility of GCC 7.x with the most recent Intel compilers at the > time. > Therefore, I contacted Intel support again to get an update, here's the > response I got: > > "We started support GCC 7.1 or above from Intel C++ Compiler 2019 Beta. > > However we don't see any known issue regarding GCC 7.3 specifically. > Internally we used it without a problem with 2018 Update2." > > I consider that sufficient to go forward with GCC 7.3.0 as a base for the > */2018b toolchains. Of course we'll test extensively whether we see any > problems (by rebuilding existing easyconfigs that use the */2018a > toolchains with */2018b). > > > For foss/2018a we stuck to OpenMPI v2.1.2 even though there already was an > OpenMPI v3.0 which was supposedly stable. Now that OpenMPI v3.1.0 is > available, it makes sense to use that in foss/2018b. > > W.r.t. OpenBLAS: there was (finally!) a new release just a couple of days > ago (v0.3.0) [2]. This includes a couple of important fixes & updates (e.g. > LAPACK 3.8.0), so that is the most sensible choice for foss/2018b. > > For the other toolchain components only less significant minor updates > seem to be available (i.e. 2018 update 2 for Intel components). > > This leads to the following initial proposals for the 2018b common > toolchains: > > ++ proposal for foss/2018b ++ > > - GCC 7.3.0 + binutils 2.30 (release dates: 2018-01-25, 2018-01-28) > - OpenMPI 3.1.0 (2018-05-07) > - OpenBLAS 0.3.0 (2018-05-23) > - FFTW 3.3.7* (2017-10-29) > - ScaLAPACK 2.0.2 (2012-05-01) > > (*) FFTW seems to be close to a new release (3.3.8), based on the recent > commit history [3], so if it's there in time we should use that. > > > ++ proposal for intel/2018a ++ > > - (GCCcore 7.3.0 + binutils 2.30 as a base) > - Intel compilers 2018 update 2, a.k.a. 2018.2.199 (2018-03-21) > - Intel MPI 2018 update 2 (2018-03-22) > - Intel MKL 2018 update 2 (2018-03-22) > > > Feedback & comments are welcome. > > > regards, > > Kenneth > > > > [1] http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Common-toolchains. > html#update-cycle-for-common-toolchains > [2] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/releases/tag/v0.3.0 > [3] https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3/commits/master >
