[MPICH] build mpich2 with Myrinet GM

[Darius Buntinas]

It looks like the icc compiler you're using doesn't like the gcc-style 
inline assembly code.

What version of icc do you have?
Can you try compiling with gcc instead of icc?

-d

On 02/26/2008 12:32 PM, Wei-keng Liao wrote:
> Attached are 3 files:
> 
> out.configure  -  stdout from configure
> out.make       -  stdout from make
> config.log
> 
> Wei-keng
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Darius Buntinas wrote:
> 
>> Can you send us the output of configure as well as config.log?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -d
>>
>> On 02/26/2008 11:35 AM, Wei-keng Liao wrote:
>>> I got an error during make:
>>>
>>> ../include/mpid_nem_atomics.h(31): catastrophic error: #error directive: No
>>> swap function defined for this architecture
>>>   #error No swap function defined for this architecture
>>>    ^
>>> compilation aborted for mpid_nem_alloc.c (code 4)
>>>
>>> I am using configure options:
>>>           --with-device=ch3:nemesis:gm  \
>>>           --with-gm=/opt/gm \
>>>           --enable-f77 --enable-f90 --enable-cxx \
>>>           --enable-fast \
>>>           --enable-romio \
>>>           --without-mpe \
>>>           --with-file-system=ufs
>>>
>>> and the command "uname -a" on the machine is
>>> Linux tg-login4 2.4.21-309.tg1 #1 SMP Thu Jun 1 17:07:28 CDT 2006 ia64
>>> unknown
>>>
>>> I am using Intel compiler v 9.1.043
>>>
>>> Wei-keng
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Darius Buntinas wrote:
>>>> On 02/26/2008 10:08 AM, Wei-keng Liao wrote:
>>>>> I have a few questions on build mpich2-1.0.6p1 with Myrinet GM library.
>>>>>
>>>>> On my target machine, the GM library (include, lib, bin, etc.) is in
>>>>> /opt/gm. According to MPICH README, I used the 2 options below when
>>>>> configuring: 
>>>>>     --with-device=ch3:nemesis:gm  and --with-gm=/opt/gm
>>>>>
>>>>> I can see both libgm.a and libgm.so are in /opt/gm/lib.
>>>>>
>>>>> Q1: Do I need other configure options or setting environment variables
>>>>>     (in addition to CC, FC, CXX, F90)? Should I set LDFLAGS to
>>>>>     "-L/opt/gm/lib -lgm" ?
>>>> Nope, the --with-gm=/opt/gm should take care of all of that for you.
>>>>
>>>>> Q2: Since nemesis does not support MPI dynamic process routines yet and
>>>>> I 
>>>>>     need those routines, can I use --with-device=ch3:sock:gm instead?
>>>> No, only nemesis supports gm.
>>>>
>>>>> Q3: Do I need anything else (source codes, library) from Myrinet to
>>>>> build 
>>>>>     mpich? Or the /opt/gm is good enough?
>>>> All you need is libgm.a and gm.h.
>>>>
>>>>> Q4: Once the mpich is built, is there a way to verify that GM is
>>>>> actually 
>>>>>     used?
>>>> Well, you should see a performance improvement over using sockets.  Run a
>>>> ping-pong test; you should see latencies around 10us or less.
>>>>
>>>> -d
>>>>