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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been trying to install PETSc v3.7.2 with the MKL Pardiso add-on. I have been using the instructions at the bottom of the webpage at
<a href="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/changes/35.html">https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/changes/35.html</a>, which require setting the following options for the PETSc configuration:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">--blas-lapack-dir=LOCATION_OF_INTEL_MKL<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">--with-mkl_pardiso-dir=LOCATION_OF_INTEL_MKL<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I have installed the current Intel MKL at the default location in /opt/intel/. This is version 11.3.3.210.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">My question is to what should I set the location? The obvious choices don’t work, with the configuration failing when it checks the BLAS library:<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">/opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64_lin<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">/opt/intel/mkl/lib<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">/opt/intel/mkl<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/mkl/lib/intel64_lin<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/mkl<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">It will also fail if I set --download-f2cblaslapack=1 when it checks the MKL Pardiso directory.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The error message says the following:<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***************<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for details):<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Could not find a functional BLAS. Run with --with-blas-lib=<lib> to indicate the library containing BLAS.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Or --download-f2cblaslapack=1 to have one automatically downloaded and installed<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">**************<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">**************<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for details):<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">MKL_Paradiso requires Intel MKL. Please rerun configure using --with-blas-lapack-dir=LOCATION_OF_INTEL_MKL<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">*************<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For which specific files is configure searching? Also, is it known whether my installed version of MKL is compatible?<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">--Galen<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
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