<div>Thanks Barry & Aron.</div>
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<div>I've tried to install mpich2 on a scratch directory and it finished in a short while.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barry Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Ben,<br><br>This is partially our fault. We never run "make clean" on MPICH after the<br>install so there are lots of .o and .a files lying around. I've updated
<br>BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py to run make clean after the install.<br><br> Barry<br><br>On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Aron Ahmadia wrote:<br><br>> Hi Ben,<br>><br>> My PETSc install on an OS X machine requires about 343 MB of space,
<br>> about 209 MB of which is MPICH. Unfortunately this has the potential<br>> of exceeding 500 MB temporarily I believe as the make process<br>> generates a lot of object files during the software build.<br>>
<br>> I think what you want to do is compile and install your own copy of<br>> MPICH (using a scratch directory or whatever tools you have at your<br>> disposal), then use the --with-mpi-dir=/location/to/mpich/install
<br>> argument into configure.<br>><br>> I've never staged a PETSc build on a machine with an extremely limited<br>> quota, the developers might have some suggestions on how to do this.<br>><br>> ~A<br>
><br>> On 1/13/07, Ben Tay <<a href="mailto:zonexo@gmail.com">zonexo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > I am trying to compile PETSc with mpi using --download-mpich=1 in linux. The
<br>> > command is<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ./config/configure.py<br>> > --with-fc=/lsftmp/g0306332/inter/fc/bin/ifort<br>> > --with-blas-lapack-dir=/lsftmp/g0306332/inter/mkl/
<br>> > --download-mpich=1 --with-x=0 --with-shared<br>> ><br>> > It displays:<br>> ><br>> > =================================================================================<br>> > Running configure on MPICH; this may take several
<br>> > minutes<br>> > =================================================================================<br>> > =================================================================================<br>> > Running make on MPICH; this may take several
<br>> > minutes<br>> > =================================================================================<br>> ><br>> > then it says disk quota exceeded. I've about 450mb free space, which is all
<br>> > filled up when the error shows. May I know how much disk space is required?<br>> ><br>> > Also can I compile just mpich on a scratch directory and then moved it to<br>> > the PETSc externalpackages directory? Or do I have to compile everything
<br>> > (including PETSc) on a scratch directory and moved it my my directory?<br>> ><br>> > thank you.<br>><br>><br><br></blockquote></div><br>