That is quite a lot of work. If there was support with Travis or some other
CI provider, at least this would be easier and authors who want to support
Power could then do so.
-viral
On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 2:22:18 PM UTC+5:30, Paulito Palmes wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I noticed that some of the packages are not aware that Julia has power
> port now and when you install those packages, they include some compiler
> directives specific to Intel processor such as SSE. In the Makefile, I
> removed this extra option and the package compiles. However, if I do
> Pkg.build("Package"), it does not respect the edited Makefile and starts to
> download from github. I don't know the sequence of operations behind but is
> there a way to manually compile and install the local package downloaded
> after you edit some files to make it work for the power machine?
>
> I think the long term solution is to have a test server running power
> machine to flag that the package did not compile successfully to the power
> port.
>
> -paulito
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote:
>
>> Can you try this one? I believe this error is addressed now.
>>
>>
>> http://s3.amazonaws.com/julianightlies/bin/linux/ppc64le/julia-latest-linuxppc64.tar.gz
>>
>> Also, Elliot enabled the nightlies:
>>
>> https://build.julialang.org/builders/package_tarballppc64le
>>
>> -viral
>>
>>
>> > On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:15 AM, James Fairbanks <jpfairba...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Viral,
>> >
>> > I got negative results on my power8 machine.
>> > After untarring the link above I got the following errors when just
>> running the repl.
>> >
>> >
>> > [jpf@power8 julia-3005940a21]$ ./bin/julia
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > 'powerpc64le' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring
>> processor)
>> > _
>> > _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
>> > (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
>> > _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help.
>> > | | | | | | |/ _` | |
>> > | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.5.0-rc3+3 (2016-08-26 06:19 UTC)
>> > _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | sf/ppc64le/3005940 (fork: 3 commits, 9 days)
>> > |__/ | powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
>> >
>> >
>> > Then I got a lot more errors.
>> > For example:
>> >
>> > WARNING: Method definition f(Tuple{Vararg{Int64, #N<:Any}},
>> AbstractArray{#T<:Any, #N<:Any}) in module Main at
>> /home/jpf/julia-3005940a21/share/julia/test/core.jl:706 overwritten at
>> /home/jpf/julia-3005940a21/share/julia/test/core.jl:712.
>> > From worker 13: * linalg/diagonal in 101.62 seconds,
>> maxrss 348.31 MB
>> > From worker 13: * inference in 0.92 seconds,
>> maxrss 352.38 MB
>> > From worker 13: * keywordargs in 1.56 seconds,
>> maxrss 354.13 MB
>> > WARNING: Method definition f() in module JLCall14301 at
>> /home/jpf/julia-3005940a21/share/julia/test/core.jl:3529 overwritten at
>> /home/jpf/julia-3005940a21/share/julia/test/core.jl:3539.
>> > From worker 5: * linalg/matmul in 169.17 seconds,
>> maxrss 367.69 MB
>> > From worker 16: * linalg/cholesky in 96.71 seconds,
>> maxrss 332.44 MB
>> > From worker 16: * char Error During Test
>> > From worker 16: Test threw an exception of type InexactError
>> > From worker 16: Expression: $(Expr(:escape,
>> :(convert(Char,Float16(x))))) $(Expr(:escape, :(==))) $(Expr(:escape,
>> :(convert(Char,Float32(x))))) $(Expr(:escape, :(==))) $(Expr(:escape,
>> :(convert(Char,Float64(x))))) $(Expr(:escape, :(==))) $(Expr(:escape,
>> :(Char(x))))
>> > From worker 16: InexactError()
>> > From worker 16: in macro expansion; at
>> /home/jpf/julia-3005940a21/share/julia/test/char.jl:72 [inlined]
>> > From worker 16: in anonymous at ./<missing>:?
>> > From worker 16: in include_string(::String, ::String) at
>> ./loading.jl:380
>> > From worker 16: in include_from_node1(::String) at
>> ./loading.jl:429
>> > From worker 16: in macro expansion at ./util.jl:226 [inlined]
>> > From worker 16: in runtests(::String) at
>> /home/jpf/julia-3005940a21/share/julia/test/testdefs.jl:7
>> > From worker 16: in
>> (::Base.Serializer.__deserialized_types__.##16#24)(::String) at
>> /home/jpf/julia-3005940a21/share/julia/test/runtests.jl:44
>> > From worker 16: in
>> (::Base.##625#627{Base.CallMsg{:call_fetch}})() at ./multi.jl:1421
>> > From worker 16: in
>> run_work_thunk(::Base.##625#627{Base.CallMsg{:call_fetch}}, ::Bool) at
>> ./multi.jl:1001
>> > From worker 16: in macro expansion at ./multi.jl:1421
>> [inlined]
>> > From worker 16: in
>> (::Base.##624#626{Base.CallMsg{:call_fetch},Base.MsgHeader,TCPSocket})() at
>> ./event.jl:68
>> >
>> > On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 1:30:54 AM UTC-4, Viral Shah wrote:
>> > I should point out that the linalg tests are expected to fail for now,
>> since we are awaiting a new openblas release, which is known to fix these
>> issues.
>> >
>> > -viral
>> >
>> > On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 10:26:38 AM UTC+5:30, Viral Shah wrote:
>> > I have uploaded Julia-0.5 on Power8 binaries here. These are built with
>> the latest openblas (that passes all julia tests) and hence there is no
>> need to use ATLAS.
>> >
>> > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0rXlkvSbIfhVWpZb2hqclBIVms
>> >
>> > Would be great if people can try this out.
>> >
>> > -viral
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Aug 19, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I am getting successful builds on the OSU Power8 machine. Once
>> openblas has a new release, I suspect we can provide pre-packaged power8
>> binaries.
>> > >
>> > > I am building on CentOS 7 and this is what lscpu says:
>> > >
>> > > Architecture: ppc64le
>> > > Byte Order: Little Endian
>> > > CPU(s): 160
>> > > On-line CPU(s) list: 0-159
>> > > Thread(s) per core: 8
>> > > Core(s) per socket: 10
>> > > Socket(s): 2
>> > > NUMA node(s): 2
>> > > Model: 8335-GCA
>> > > L1d cache: 64K
>> > > L1i cache: 32K
>> > > L2 cache: 512K
>> > > L3 cache: 8192K
>> > > NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-79
>> > > NUMA node8 CPU(s): 80-159
>> > >
>> > > I suspect you are running into a codegen issue. Let’s give it a few
>> days and once llvm 3.9 releases, we can try that. If not, we may need
>> Jameson’s help.
>> > >
>> > > -viral
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> On Aug 19, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> It is hard to say what is happening there. Trying it out.
>> > >>
>> > >> OpenBLAS develop branch is now passing on Power and hence Atlas
>> should no longer be required. Note that you need the latest (3.10.4?)
>> ATLAS, but in any case, this should not affect the build.
>> > >>
>> > >> -viral
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Geert Janssen <gee...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Dear Viral,
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I am building Julie release-0.5 on a Power8E Ubuntu 14.10 machine.
>> > >>> I use the following Make.user after having had trouble compiling
>> OpenBLAS that was pulled in:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> created Make.user:
>> > >>> override USE_SYSTEM_BLAS = 1
>> > >>> override USE_BLAS64 = 0
>> > >>> override LIBBLAS = -L/opt/atlas/lib -ltatlas
>> > >>> override LIBBLASNAME = libtatlas
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I get a clean build all the way till the end and then this happens:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> ....
>> > >>> JULIA usr/lib/julia/inference.ji
>> > >>> /bin/sh: line 1: 6967 Segmentation fault
>> /localhome/geert/src/julia/usr/bin/julia -C native --output-ji
>> /localhome/geert/src/julia/usr/lib/julia/inference.ji --startup-file=no
>> coreimg.jl
>> > >>> Makefile:215: recipe for target
>> '/localhome/geert/src/julia/usr/lib/julia/inference.ji' failed
>> > >>> make[1]: ***
>> [/localhome/geert/src/julia/usr/lib/julia/inference.ji] Error 139
>> > >>> Makefile:96: recipe for target 'julia-inference' failed
>> > >>> make: *** [julia-inference] Error 2
>> > >>>
>> > >>> The machine and OS details are:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> geert@tulgpu505:~/src/julia$ lscpu
>> > >>> Architecture: ppc64le
>> > >>> Byte Order: Little Endian
>> > >>> CPU(s): 184
>> > >>> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-151,160-191
>> > >>> Thread(s) per core: 8
>> > >>> Core(s) per socket: 5
>> > >>> Socket(s): 4
>> > >>> NUMA node(s): 4
>> > >>> Model: 8247-42L
>> > >>> CPU max MHz: 3923.0000
>> > >>> CPU min MHz: 2061.0000
>> > >>> L1d cache: 64K
>> > >>> L1i cache: 32K
>> > >>> L2 cache: 512K
>> > >>> L3 cache: 8192K
>> > >>> NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-47
>> > >>> NUMA node1 CPU(s): 48-95
>> > >>> NUMA node16 CPU(s): 96-143
>> > >>> NUMA node17 CPU(s): 144-151,160-191
>> > >>> geert@tulgpu505:~/src/julia$ cat /etc/os-release
>> > >>> NAME="Ubuntu"
>> > >>> VERSION="14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)"
>> > >>> ID=ubuntu
>> > >>> ID_LIKE=debian
>> > >>> PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.10"
>> > >>> VERSION_ID="14.10"
>> > >>> HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/";
>> > >>> SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/";
>> > >>> BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/";
>> > >>> geert@tulgpu505:~/src/julia$ uname -a
>> > >>> Linux tulgpu505 3.16.0-30-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 12
>> 22:07:11 UTC 2015 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
>> > >>> geert@tulgpu505:~/src/julia$
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Any suggestions?
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Thanks,
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Geert
>> > >>
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>
