Some feedback from my contact Intel (Robert S Cohn):
(>>>: me, >: Robert)
> It would be good to do easybuild now while everything is fresh in my
mind.
> It would be good if someone familiar with easybuild packaging could
work with me. We could agree on package structure, then someone could
set up the shell of the package, and I can fill it in.
>>> Should we just install basekit + HPC kit, or play with individual
components, etc?
> It depends on the package structure you want. There are some
tradeoffs about download size and whether easybuild caches downloads
between installs.
>>> I also noticed that the familiar compilers (icc, icpc, ifort) are
still available, but there are also newer counterparts (icx, icpx, ifx).
How do these relate to each other?
> The x variants are replacing the non-x variants. It is likely that
your users will continue to want both for the next couple years.
>>> Do you know if there will be additional releases of the Intel
Parallel Studio going forward, or will the focus be on switching to oneAPI?
> No more releases of parallel studio are planned.
On 21/12/2020 11:03, Kenneth Hoste wrote:
Hi André,
On 18/12/2020 14:50, André Gemünd wrote:
Dear Easybuilders,
sorry if I missed the discussion if there exists one already, but did
someone take a look at the new structure of the intel packages? It
seems our Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition is now "Intel® oneAPI
Base & HPC Toolkit (Multi-Node)" with two packages. No direct .tar.gz
files are offered for download anymore, but a _offline.sh script. That
seems to be only a minor inconvenience though, because the script is
just the .tar.gz with some extraction code in front, so you can skip
everything up to and including __CONTENT__ and have the .tar.gz.
However, is someone already working on this?
Great, it's like Intel went out of their way again to make it as hard as
possible to install their software! :)
We should probably just use their "offline" installation script though...
I'm not aware of somebody looking into this already, but I do know a
person at Intel who may be able to help us out if needed.
If you plan to actively work on this, or if you need any help, please
let us know. The best way is to join the EasyBuild Slack for easy and
more direct communication; see
https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#getting-help.
regards,
Kenneth
