[petsc-users] PETSc on BlueWaters

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Jim Fonseca <jefonseca at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I'm wondering if any other groups out there have built their own PETSc on
> > BlueWaters. We have a unique PETSc build that combines double and complex
> > builds and we have been struggling to get it running there, even though we
> > have had success on other Cray machines.
> >
> > At this point we are trying to have PETSc build its own mpich. The only
> > way we have been able to get a simple MPI example included with PETSc to
> > work has been by adding the mpich download option to the configuration. We
> > would like to be able to use the Blue Waters mpich, since other packages
> > such as HDF5 rely on the mpich residing on Blue Waters.
> >
> > I know I'm supposed to include config.log but we've been running through
> > those left and right trying many different things.
> >
> 
> Send them all to petsc-maint.

I'll say - try the basic build [with recommended compilers/mpi] and send it over.

bluewaters appears to be cray-xe6 - same as nersc-hopper - with default pgi compilers?

petsc/config/examples/arch-cray-xt6-pkgs-opt.py is what we used
previously to install the nersc machine.

Satish

> 
>    Matt
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
> >
> > --
> > Jim Fonseca, PhD
> > Research Scientist
> > Network for Computational Nanotechnology
> > Purdue University
> > 765-496-6495
> > www.jimfonseca.com
> >
> >
> >
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