Petsc configure error

Ryan Yan vyan2000 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 17:26:28 CDT 2009


Hi Matt and Satish,
Thank you very much for pointing this out. I almost forgot this.  I will pay
more attention to -log-summary.

Yan

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Have you tried running with -log_summary?
>
> [I still need to check tau]
>
> Satish
>
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Ryan Yan wrote:
>
> >  Hi Satish,
> > What I am tring to do is using TAU to profile a solver using PETSc
>  function
> > calls on a Sicortex cluster. Now I am just building on a desktop.
> >
> > I tried tauex, it can run. But it did not provide me any explicit
> profiling
> > about PETSc function calls. Instead, it only gave me profiling on the TAU
> > application and MPI routines.
> >
> > I have send email inquiries to TAU developer. They suggestted me rebuild
> > PETSc with TAU if I want those profiles on PETSc function calls.
> >
> > Frankly, I do not have experience with profiling or performance analysis
> on
> > a solver.  Do you have any suggestion or pointers to other source on
> doing
> > performance analysis for PETSc solvers, considering the option of using
> TAU
> > may need lots of workarounds when I rebuilt PETSC with TAU on the
> cluster.
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> >
> > Yan
> >
> >  On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
> >
> > > TAU isn't tested with petsc in the past few years. So thing could be
> > > broken. I'll have to check on this.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Hi Satish,
> > What I am tring to do is using TAU to profile a solver using PETSc
>  function
> > calls on a Sicortex cluster.
> >
> > I tried tauex, it can run. But it did not provide me any explicit
> profiling
> > about PETSc function calls. Instead, it just give me an profiling on the
> TAU
> > application and MPI routines.
> >
> > I have send inquiryies to TAU developer. They suggestted me rebuild PETSc
> > with TAU if I want those profiles on PETSc function calls.
> >
> > Frankly, I do not have experience with profiling or performance analysis
> on
> > a solver. Do you have any suggestion on doing performance analysis for
> PETSc
> > solvers?
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > One comment though.. If you have tau built with mpi - you should use
> > > that mpi & wrappers with tau and not use --download-mpich. [but this
> > > is also likely broken]
> > >
> > > Satish
> > >
> > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Ryan Yan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I got configuration errors, when I trying to built PETSC with Tau.
> > > > Basically, I followed the instruction on the installation webpage of
> > > PETSc.
> > > >
> > > > In the attached file, please find the configure log.
> > > >
> > > > I do built TAU and PDT seperately, and TAU with mpi and PDT.
> > > >
> > > > If any more information is needed, please let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Yan
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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