On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Aron Ahmadia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another side-note. > > We have made some progress in pulling out some of the major external > dependencies (SuperLU, hypre, Metis) into their own packages in HashDist, > which has been helpful for speeding up rebuilds. As others have noted, > configure is the real killer for PETSc builds. > I just pushed an update for parallel configure (using only 2 threads right now) to next. We will see if the builds blow up. Matt > > A > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > On Mar 2, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: >> >> We could have a script that runs configure; submits the result to >> >> queue; gets result from queue; runs the new configure >> > >> > Just make it part of configure, but either way, it requires knowing how >> > to submit jobs. >> >> No the difference is that it is written by the person running on that >> particular site who knows that particular site and its quirks and thus >> writes a script that works there. It is not something done by an outside >> group >> >> >> > If you don't guess right the first time, it costs as >> > much human time as the manual alternative. >> >> > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
