[petsc-dev] Moving from BG/L to BG/P

[Kevin.Buckley at ecs.vuw.ac.nz]

> Just to clarify - petsc-bgl-tools were useful for the first generation
> of BlueGene [bg/l] with the first generation of software stack - where
> mpixlc/mpixlf77/mpixlf90 wrappers to use IBM compilers with MPI on
> these machines were absent.
>
> Subsequent machines [bg/p] and perhaps software stack update to bg/l
> do provide proper mpixlc/mpixlf77/mpixlf90 warppers. [so
> petsc-bgl-tools isn't needed anymore]
>
> As Jed suggested - use config/examples/arch-bgp-ibm-opt.py - modify it
> appropriately for the externalpackages requred - and run it.
>
> Satish
>

Thanks to both of you, for those pointers and clarification.

Initially, I was thinking that the researcher would want to
stick with the 3.0 series so had not looked at the 3.2 sources,
and hence not finding the

 config/examples/arch-bgp-ibm-opt.py

mentioned, however, we are going to move with the times.

I thus altered the external package options to match those of the
3.0.0-p9 build in a copy of that file and ran it.

I get some odd output when trying to pull in the latest
SuperLU, which I grabbed from ANL

  '--download-superlu=/path/to/superlu_4.0-March_7_2010.tar.gz',

It starts to compile but then fails with this output

...
mpixlc_r -O3 -qarch=450d -qtune=450 -qmaxmem=-1  -DNoChange
-DUSE_VENDOR_BLAS -c ilu_heap_relax_snode.c
mpixlc_r -O3 -qarch=450d -qtune=450 -qmaxmem=-1  -DNoChange
-DUSE_VENDOR_BLAS -c mark_relax.c
c mc64ad.f
c mc21.f
...
make[1]: c: Command not found

Looking at

 externalpackages/SuperLU_4.0/SRC/Makefile

suggests to me that the default rule for

.f.o:
        $(FORTRAN) $(FFLAGS) -c $<

isn't seeing the $(FORTRAN) or $(FFLAGS) expanded.

Along the right lines ? Or missed something obvious ?

Kevin

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