I'm still on vacation and it's sort of too hot to engage the brain, hence the unintended delay on this. (And we needed to discuss a few dependency changes before going forward)
I'll delay a bit further until Kenneth, and myself, are back from vacation next week. On 07/30/2018 02:48 PM, Andrew Edmondson wrote: > Sorry – I missed the message from Åke. Looking forward to using it! > > > > *From:*[email protected] > <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Andrew Edmondson > *Sent:* 30 July 2018 13:36 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [easybuild] iomkl-2018b toolchain availability? > > > > Hi all, > > > > If iomkl/2018b doesn’t exist in a couple of months then we at Birmingham > will be looking to make one. I’ve got a new starter coming in September, > so won’t be doing it before then I’m afraid. > > > > We need iomkl because we use Mellanox InfiniBand and IntelMPI isn’t > supported for HPC-X* > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ed > > > > * HPC-X also includes various acceleration packages to improve both the > > performance and scalability of applications running on top of these > libraries, including UCX > > (Unified Communication X) and MXM (Mellanox Messaging), which accelerate > the underlying > > send/receive (or put/get) messages. It also includes FCA (Fabric > Collectives Accelerations), > > which accelerates the underlying collective operations used by the > MPI/PGAS languages. > > > > *From:*[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> *On Behalf Of > *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* 16 July 2018 17:30 > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [easybuild] iomkl-2018b toolchain availability? > > > > Hi Ole, > > > > it says it there: > > "Intel MPI Library is available as part of Intel® Parallel Studio XE > Cluster Edition and as a free stand-alone version. A license purchase > includes Priority Support." > > > > it's a not a trial version any more if you click on the "Free Download" > button. Instead it will bring you to: > > https://software.intel.com/en-us/performance-libraries > > which includes MKL, Intel MPI and some other things. So you can also > construct "gimkl" without sending $$$ to Intel. > > > > I haven't found any announcement but noted that since April this year, > this has been updated: > > https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/end-user-license-agreement > > => > > The EULA for Intel Software Development Products > <https://software.intel.com/en-us/license/eula-for-intel-software-development-products> > is the most commonly used license. Popular products it applies to include: > > * Intel® Parallel Studio XE > * Intel® System Studio > * Intel® VTune™ Amplifier > * Intel® Media Server Studio > > The Intel Simplified Software License > <https://software.intel.com/en-us/license/intel-simplified-software-license> > applies to the following products: > > * Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) > * Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) Library > * Intel® Machine Learning Scaling Library (Intel® MLSL) > * Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library (Intel® DAAL) > * Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) > * Intel® Distribution for Python* > * Intel® MPI Library > * Intel® Cluster Checker > > the first 4 you will need to buy licenses for (for typical HPC use that > is, it is free for certain other use cases), but the last 8 not any more. > > > > Bart > > > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 at 11:59, Ole Holm Nielsen > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Bart, > On 07/16/2018 05:47 PM, Bart Oldeman wrote: > > Hello Ole, > > > > as far as I can see Intel MPI is free beer now (unless you want > priority > > support of course), since 2018 update 2. > > That doesn't mean iomkl is useless of course! > > I don't see any free beer in the official Intel MPI homepage: > https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mpi-library > The trial version of the software doesn't count :-) > > Do you have more details about Intel making Intel MPI freely available? > > Thanks, > Ole > > > > -- > > Dr. Bart E. Oldeman | [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> | [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Scientific Computing Analyst / Analyste en calcul scientifique > McGill HPC Centre / Centre de Calcul Haute Performance de McGill | > http://www.hpc.mcgill.ca > Calcul Québec | http://www.calculquebec.ca > Compute/Calcul Canada | http://www.computecanada.ca > Tel/Tél: 514-396-8926 | Fax/Télécopieur: 514-396-8934 > -- Ake Sandgren, HPC2N, Umea University, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Internet: [email protected] Phone: +46 90 7866134 Fax: +46 90-580 14 Mobile: +46 70 7716134 WWW: http://www.hpc2n.umu.se
