[PETSC #19456] PETSc with blocksolve95 and matlab interface

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   I concur, rip it out of petsc-dev


Okay, ripped.

  Matt


>
>    Barry
>
>   Hmmm, maybe we should rip it out of petsc-3.0.0 but since it involves
> lots of changes, hmmmm
>
>
> On May 19, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
>  I vote for kicking out BlockSolve95. It has not been maintained since 95.
>> It does parallel
>> ICC(0) and ILU(0). The ILU can be done by PILUT. It appears the only thing
>> we give up
>> is ICC(0) in parallel. IS this worth keeping this headache?
>>
>>  Matt
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Satish Balay <petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov>
>> wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 May 2009, Rebecca Hartman-Baker wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm installing PETSc 3.0.0 p4 on jaguar at ORNL, which runs linux on the
>> > front end and CNL 2.1 on the compute nodes.  Our MPI is the Cray
>> > distribution.  I am compiling with PGI compiler 8.0.3.  The user
>> requested
>> > that I create an installation that includes hdf5, hypre, sundials,
>> > blocksolve95, and the matlab interface.  In creating this custom
>> > installation, I'm running into two problems.
>> >
>> > First, I was having some trouble figuring out how to get blocksolve95.
>>  When
>> > I click on the links in the PETSc website referencing blocksolve95, I
>> get a
>> > "page not found" error.  After asking a colleague about it, I was able
>> to
>> > track down the ftp site to retrieve it (
>> ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/BlockSolve95/),
>> > but this is one of the few packages where there's an interface to it but
>> no
>> > means for PETSc to download and install it for you.  I wanted to make
>> sure
>> > that since there doesn't appear to be an official source that I've
>> indeed
>> > fetched the right thing.
>>
>> Yes - we don't have a --download-blocksolve95 option. It has to be
>> installed manually - and then specified to PETSc
>> configure. [BlockSolve uses very-old install style of petsc - and was
>> never updated..]
>>
>> > Second, when I compile the matlab interface, it appears that there's an
>> > invalid flag, -pthread, which is not understood by the PGI compiler.  It
>> > appears to be a standard GNU flag that allows the use of pthreads.  I
>> wasn't
>> > able to track down where this flag is set.  Other than this, the
>> compilation
>> > (without blocksolve95) went just fine.  The logfiles told me to send
>> them to
>> > you, so attached please find make.log and configure.log from my
>> compilation.
>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> libfast in:
>> /sw/xt5/petsc/3.0.0/cnl2.1_pgi8.0.3_custom/petsc-3.0.0-p4/src/sys/viewer/impls/socket/matlab
>> BEGINNING TO COMPILE MATLAB INTERFACE
>> /opt/cray/xt-asyncpe/2.3/bin/cc: INFO: linux target is being used
>> /opt/cray/xt-asyncpe/2.3/bin/cc: INFO: linux target is being used
>> /opt/cray/xt-asyncpe/2.3/bin/cc: INFO: linux target is being used
>> pgcc-Error-Unknown switch: -pthread
>>
>>   mex: link of ' "sread.mexa64"' failed.
>>
>> make[10]: [sread] Error 1 (ignored)
>> /bin/mv: cannot stat `sread.mex*': No such file or directory
>> make[10]: [sread] Error 1 (ignored)
>> <<<<<<<<
>>
>> The errors are from /sw/xt5/matlab/7.7/sles_binary/bin/mex - as we are
>> attempting to invoke it with "mex CC=cc" - but perhaps it only works
>> with "mex CC=gcc"?
>>
>>
>> Perhaps you can edit src/sys/viewer/impls/socket/matlab/makefile - and
>> remove all occurences of "CC=${CC}" - and see if it works.
>>
>> Satish
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help!
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Rebecca Hartman-Baker
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
>
>


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is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
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