[mpich-discuss] Building the HP-UX MPICH library --Question

Wed Nov 25 13:29:49 CST 2009

Glad to hear that!

-d

On 11/25/2009 01:16 PM, Hirsh, Joel E wrote:
> I was able to successfully unpack the files using gunzip followed by tar xvf on our HP-UX machine.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Joel E. Hirsh Ph.D.
> Boeing Research and Technology
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Darius Buntinas
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:24 PM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Building the HP-UX MPICH library --Question
> 
> Did you download it from here?
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/1.2.1/mpich2-1.2.1.tar.gz
> 
> If you have gnu tar (do a tar --version to find out), untar it like this:
>   tar zxf mpich2-1.2.1.tar.gz
> 
> If you don't have gnu tar, you'll have to uncompress it first, then untar:
>   zcat mpich2-1.2.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
> 
> Let us know how that works for you.
> 
> -d
> 
> 
> On 11/24/2009 11:09 AM, Hirsh, Joel E wrote:
>> I downloaded the latest MPICH2 source code, but I am unable to access it.  I get a checksum error using tar on the UNIX machine and Winzip doesn't like it on a PC.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> Joel E. Hirsh Ph.D.
>> Boeing Research and Technology
>> PO BOX 16858, MC P29-99
>> Philadelphia, PA
>> Office: 610-591-7769
>> Cell: 610-517-1098
>> Fax: 314-545-8651  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Hirsh, Joel E
>> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:53 PM
>> To: Anthony Chan; mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
>> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Building the HP-UX MPICH library --Question
>>
>> I believe our application uses very plain FORTRAN interfaces to MPI and therefore it should be OK.  Assuming I get this application built, is there any learning curve for running the application?  I believe we used the mpirun command and a list of nodes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joel E. Hirsh Ph.D.
>> Boeing Reaearch and Technology
>> PO BOX 16858, MC P29-99
>> Philadelphia, PA
>> Office: 610-591-7769
>> Cell: 610-517-1098
>> Fax: 314-545-8651  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Anthony Chan
>> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:32 PM
>> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
>> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Building the HP-UX MPICH library --Question
>>
>>
>> I would say you should try MPICH2 first.  MPICH-1 has not been developed
>> for years so its support for newer compilers is questionable.
>> You can try building MPICH2 with new HP compilers (and send us your
>> configure and make outputs if there is any problem.) and see if the mpich2
>> library works with your F77 code.  If your app does not use any MPICH-1
>> implementation specific features, MPICH2 should be OK with your app.
>>
>> A.Chan
>>
>> ----- "Joel E Hirsh" <joel.e.hirsh at boeing.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Some advice please!
>>>
>>> We have an application that uses MPICH-1 on HP-UX.  We built the MPICH
>>> library back in 1999 using MPICH-1.1.1.  Today, we cannot link to it,
>>> probably because the newer HP compilers are no compatible with that
>>> old library.  Our application is basically a FORTRAN 77 code.
>>>
>>> In order to bring us up to date, I believe we need to have a current
>>> version of the MPICH library for HP-UX.  Should we build the HP-UX
>>> library from the latest MPICH-1 source as we did a long time ago, or
>>> should we jump to MPICH-2?  If we go to MPICH-2, is there an HP-UX
>>> library that we can use without building the library ourselves?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Joel E. Hirsh Ph.D.
>>> Boeing Reaearch and Technology
>>> PO BOX 16858, MC P29-99
>>> Philadelphia, PA
>>> Office: 610-591-7769
>>> Cell: 610-517-1098
>>> Fax: 314-545-8651
>>>
>>>
>>>
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