[mpich-discuss] try to install MPICH2 on SGI under local account

Thu May 27 13:05:53 CDT 2010

Rui,

Can you try the latest developer snapshot from here: 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/nightly/trunk

I made some changes (mainly to how the tarball is created) to help with 
this.

% ./configure --prefix=/u/home/rum06003/mpi --with-device=ch3:sock 
--with-atomic-primitives=no

Thanks,

  -- Pavan

On 05/27/2010 10:19 AM, Mei, Rui wrote:
> Hi, Pavan, 
> 
> I think I did not understand it right. But /u/home/rum06003 is not mounted on NFS system as shown below.
> 
> Rui
> 
> rum06003 at linuxAltix:~> mount
> /dev/sda3 on / type xfs (rw)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw)
> /dev/hda on /media/dvd type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
> cpuset on /dev/cpuset type cpuset (rw)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> /dev/lxvm/stripe1 on /u type xfs (rw,quota,gquota)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> /dev/lxvm/stripe2 on /data type xfs (rw,quota,gquota)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Mei, Rui
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:00 AM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [mpich-discuss] try to install MPICH2 on SGI under local account
> 
> In regards to the 3rd point,  The building directory MPICH2-1.3a2 and the installation directory mpi are both under /u/home/rum06003/ on the SGI server. So they should bear the same time clock. I am not sure if I have understand your point
> clearly.  That SGI server is not mounted on my local machine, I usually ssh to that machine. So I do not know how to build it from
> my local machine /tmp and set the prefix to be /u/home/rum06003/mpi on that SGI machine.
> 
> Thank you for any suggestion or clarification.
> 
> Rui
> ________________________________________
> From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Pavan Balaji [balaji at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:06 PM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] try to install MPICH2 on SGI under local account
> 
> Aha. It looks like a timestamp issue. Your "make" is causing simplemake
> to be re-executed, which should never happen unless the timestamp of the
> Makefile.in is more recent than the Makefile.
> 
> There are a bunch of problems that need to be fixed here:
> 
> 1. When the time stamps don't match for released versions, we should
> just throw an error during make, instead of leading to such cryptic bugs.
> 
> 2. You should not have to give the --with-atomic-primitives=no option
> when using --with-device=ch3:sock.
> 
> 3. For some reason you are getting incorrect time stamps for your files.
> 
> (1) and (2) are a problem with MPICH2, which I'll fix. (3) is a problem
> with your setup. Are your files on an NFS server, or some other shared
> file system? Can you make sure the time stamp on your login node (or
> which ever node you are building MPICH2 on) is the same as your file
> server? Alternatively, you can try building on a local file-system such
> as /tmp. Your prefix can still be /u/home/rum06003/mpi.
> 
>   -- Pavan
> 
> On 05/26/2010 09:53 PM, Mei, Rui wrote:
>> I first tried ./configure --prefix=/u/home/rum06003/mpi --with-device=ch3:sock 2>&1 | tee c1.txt and it gave me error (see c1.txt)
>> and suggest to use --with-atomic-primitives=no option.
>>
>> So I then tried ./configure --prefix=/u/home/rum06003/mpi --with-atomic-primitives=no 2>&1 | tee c.txt (it's ok, see c.txt)
>>
>> Then I executed: make 2>&1 | tee m.txt (it gave error, see m.txt)
>>
>> At last I executed: make install 2>&1 | tee mi.txt (it also gave error, see mi.txt)
>>
>> And there is indeed a difference between Makefile.in an dMakefile.in.original.
>>
>> Thank you for any suggestion.
>>
>> Rui
>> ________________________________________
>> From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Pavan Balaji [balaji at mcs.anl.gov]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 9:26 PM
>> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
>> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] try to install MPICH2 on SGI under local account
>>
>> On 05/26/2010 08:20 PM, Pavan Balaji wrote:
>>> 3. Run configure using:
>>>
>>> % ./configure --prefix=/u/home/rum06003/mpi --with-device=ch3:sock 2>&1
>>> | tee c.txt
>> Small correction here. I'll need you to run both configure and make:
>>
>> % ./configure --prefix=/u/home/rum06003/mpi --with-device=ch3:sock 2>&1
>> | tee c.txt
>>
>> % make
>>
>> ... then send me both Makefile.in and Makefile.in.original
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   -- Pavan
>>
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