Re: [OMPI devel] KNL/hwloc funny message question

2017-09-01 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Howard, i faced the same issue after a MPSS (Intel software stack for many core) update. as Brice explained, the issue comes from the embedded (and older) hwloc does understand the file format written by MPSS (more recent) hwloc. i simply rebuilt Open MPI with the external hwloc provided by

[hwloc-devel] Python bindings for hwloc

2017-09-01 Thread Guy Streeter
I'm still retired, but I found time to update python-hwloc for hwloc version 1.11.5, the version currently shipped in Fedora 26. I made some bug-fixes along the way, and built new versions for Fedora 25 and Cento 7 as well. There are 2 important hosting changes for python-hwloc: the fdeorahosted

Re: [OMPI devel] KNL/hwloc funny message question

2017-09-01 Thread Brice Goglin
Hello This message is related to /var/cache/hwloc/knl_memoryside_cache. This file exposes the KNL cluster and MCDRAM configuration, only accessible from root-only files. hwloc-dump-hwdata runs at boot time to create that file, and non-root hwloc users can read it later. Failing to read that file

[OMPI devel] KNL/hwloc funny message question

2017-09-01 Thread Howard Pritchard
Hi Folks, I just now subscribed to the hwloc user mail list, but I suspect that requires human intervention to get on, and that might not mean something happening till next week. Alas google has failed me in helping to understand the message. So, I decided to post to Open MPI devel list and see