Re: [easybuild] 2019a update of common toolchains

2019-01-14 Thread Jakob Schiøtz
> On 14 Jan 2019, at 11:27, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > > Dear Damian, > > On 14/01/2019 10:59, Alvarez, Damian wrote: >> Hi Kenneth, >> Wouldn't compiling OpenMPI 4.0 with --enable-mpi1-compatibility be an >> option? (See https://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=mpi-removed) > > Maybe, but I

Re: [easybuild] 2019a update of common toolchains

2019-01-14 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Dear Damian, On 14/01/2019 10:59, Alvarez, Damian wrote: Hi Kenneth, Wouldn't compiling OpenMPI 4.0 with --enable-mpi1-compatibility be an option? (See https://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=mpi-removed) Maybe, but I would like to avoid i) using a new major release, ii) using a non-default

Re: [easybuild] 2019a update of common toolchains

2019-01-14 Thread Alvarez, Damian
Hi Kenneth, Wouldn't compiling OpenMPI 4.0 with --enable-mpi1-compatibility be an option? (See https://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=mpi-removed) Best, Damian On 12.01.19, 19:15, "easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be on behalf of Kenneth Hoste" wrote: Dear EasyBuilders, Based on

Re: [easybuild] 2019a update of common toolchains

2019-01-12 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Dear EasyBuilders, Based on the problems that several people are seeing with Intel MPI 2019 update 1 (see also notes of the last EasyBuild conf call [1]), we concluded that it's better to stick with Intel MPI 2018 update 4 for the intel/2019a toolchain. I will change the pull request

Re: [easybuild] 2019a update of common toolchains

2019-01-07 Thread pramod kumbhar
Same experience on our systems : we encountered multiple issues, specifically with libfabric (which is default with Intel MPI 2019). -Pramod On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 4:45 PM Alvarez, Damian wrote: > A word of caution regarding Intel MPI 2019: They changed a lot of things > under the hood, and we

Re: [easybuild] 2019a update of common toolchains

2019-01-07 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi Damian, I have no idea if it helps but a new version of libfabric has just been released: https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric/releases/tag/v1.7.0 whereas according to https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mpi-library-release-notes-linux Intel MPI 2019.1 ships with a customized 1.7.0

Re: [easybuild] 2019a update of common toolchains

2019-01-07 Thread Alvarez, Damian
A word of caution regarding Intel MPI 2019: They changed a lot of things under the hood, and we have seen lots of issues in our systems on relatively large jobs (1.5K+ MPI processes). Basically most collective algorithms don't make it through. We have seen that on 2 different InfiniBand