test release: parallel-netcdf 1.3.0pre1

[Jim Edwards]

Oh - and just to confirm - the async capabilities of pnetcdf (eg
nfmpi_iput_ ) are not supported
on BGL and BGP - how about BGQ?

Jim

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jim Edwards <edwards.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> Thanks - not that big of a deal, I just wanted to point out that it wasn't
> working
> on our BGL dinosaur.        Do you have a 1.3.0p1 install on intrepid that
> I can use?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Rob Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 02:48:49PM -0500, Wei-keng Liao wrote:
>> > I cannot find blrts_xlf on Intrepid.
>>
>> blrts is the old old BGL way of doing things.  On BGP (Intrepid) that
>> compiler would be bgxlc.
>>
>> Jim, our site folks strongly discourage linking directly with bgxlc.
>> I can certainly believe it was needed in the BGL days in some
>> situations but your life will be a lot easier if you use the mpi
>> wrappers.
>>
>> But we can still add $(LIBS) to the makefile, no problem.
>>
>> ==rob
>> >
>> > I can build the prerelease with both compilers wrapper for GNU and the
>> IBM compilers.
>> > Below is another configure command line I used that uses the IBM
>> compilers.
>> >
>> > configure --prefix=$HOME/PnetCDF \
>> >           --host powerpc-bgp-linux \
>> >           --build powerpc64-suse-linux \
>> >           --enable-fortran \
>> >           CC=mpixlc CXX=mpixlcxx \
>> >           F77=mpixlf90 F90=mpixlf90 \
>> >           MPICC=mpixlc MPICXX=mpixlcxx \
>> >           MPIF77=mpixlf90 MPIF90=mpixlf90 \
>> >
>> > The problem you are seeing looks like a Makefile's issue, rather than
>> the compiler's.
>> > Could you send me src/lib/Makefile generated after running configure?
>> >
>> > Wei-keng
>> >
>> >
>> > On Apr 23, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Jim Edwards wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi Wei-keng,
>> > >
>> > > Can you install this on intrepid?   I was just about to test there.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Wei-keng Liao <
>> wkliao at ece.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> > > Hi, Jim,
>> > >
>> > > I just built the prerelease 1.3.0pre1 on Intrepid, the BGP at
>> Argonne, but
>> > > could not reproduce the error you reported. The Makefile in
>> > > src/lib for building ncvalid has the following lines related to
>> ncvalid.
>> > > LIBRARY         = libpnetcdf.a
>> > > PROGRAM         = ncvalid
>> > > $(PROGRAM):     $(PROG_OBJS) $(LIBRARY)
>> > >        $(LINK.c) $(PROG_OBJS) $(LIBRARY)
>> > >
>> > > So, it should put the library file at the end of link command.
>> > >
>> > > Could you tell us the configure command line you used and also
>> > > send us the src/lib/Makefile?
>> > >
>> > > Here is my configure command line:
>> > > ./configure --host powerpc-bgp-linux --build powerpc64-suse-linux
>> --with-mpi=/bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor/comm CFLAGS="-Wall -g -O0"
>> > >
>> > > Wei-keng
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Jim Edwards wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi Rob,
>> > > >
>> > > > In building the prerelease the program ncvalid trys to link without
>> libraries - this fails on bgl.   I fixed it by adding $(LIBS) to the link
>> line in the src/lib/Makefile.
>> > > >
>> > > > Jim
>> > > >
>> > > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Rob Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov>
>> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hello to our pnetcdf community.
>> > > >
>> > > > Did you realize our last release was in August.  Of 2010?  In some
>> > > > ways that's great: Parallel-NetCDF churns along, hopefully
>> delivering
>> > > > good performance, and we've had no show-stopping bugs come up
>> forcing
>> > > > us to make a new release.
>> > > >
>> > > > However, development does continue, and we're feeling pretty good
>> > > > about the new features in SVN trunk lately, so let's have a
>> > > > pre-release so we can get these new features out into applications'
>> > > > hands.
>> > > >
>> > > > Of particular note:
>> > > > - A new "buffered put" api, an extension to the non-blocking
>> > > >  interface.  See the release notes for more information.
>> > > > - Various bug fixes and optimizations
>> > > > - You used to need a custom pnetcdf.h header file from Unidata if
>> you
>> > > >  wanted to build NetCDF-4 with parallel-netcdf support.  Now you no
>> > > >  longer need their header file.
>> > > >
>> > > > For more information, including download or SVN links, please see
>> the
>> > > > release notes:
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parallel-netcdf/wiki/ReleaseNotes-1.3.0
>> > > >
>> > > > ==rob (on behalf of the entire pnetcdf team at ANL and NWU)
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Rob Latham
>> > > > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
>> > > > Argonne National Lab, IL USA
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Jim Edwards
>> > > >
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>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Jim Edwards
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>> --
>> Rob Latham
>> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
>> Argonne National Lab, IL USA
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> Jim Edwards
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