[petsc-dev] External packages question: blacs-dev

[Aron Ahmadia]

I believe BLACS has finally been folded in to Scalapack...

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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Kevin Buckley <
kevin.buckley.ecs.vuw.ac.nz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> as an occasional builder of PETSc for researchers whose higher level codes
> make use of it, one of the first things I do when looking to build a newer
> PETSc
> is to check out any changes to the external packages, with something akin
> to:
>
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep self.download | cut -d= -f 2-
> | grep http | sort > /tmp/petsc-350
>
> as my preferred way to build is to have everything local to the
> machine I'm building
> on
>
> Even allowing for the odd change in http server for external packages where
> an "ANL proxied download" from below
>
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages
>
> is not available, it not usually much of a chore to match up any changes
> and
> compare against my previous build recipies.
>
> I recently came to start builiding the 3.5.0 PETSc, so as to see how
> it would play
> with the latest PISM code, and the one package I can't match up between my
> PETSc 3.2p7 and 3.3p3 recipies is
>
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/blacs-dev.tar.gz
>
> So what's happened to blacs-dev?
>
> Presumably the functionality it provided to the PETSc code is now
> available in
> some other package, but, if so, I have missed the petsc-dev thread where it
> got the boot.
>
> Any info welcome,
> Kevin
>
> eScience Consultant
> School of Engineering and Computer Science
> Victoria University of Wellington
> New Zealand
>
> PS
>
> A 3.3-p3 recipe, from a ways back, built against a CentOS system OpenMPI,
> was, my notes indicate, as follows
>
> cd /srv/global/work/sources/PISM/
> tar xf petsc-3.3-p3.tar.gz
> cd petsc-3.3-p3
> mkdir /opt/PETSc/petsc-3.3-p3
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/PETSc/petsc-3.3-p3/PISM \
>   --with-debugging=0 \
>   --with-blas-lapack-dir=/usr/lib64 \
>   --with-mpi-dir=/usr/lib64/openmpi/1.4-gcc \
>   --with-clanguage=cxx \
>  --download-MUMPS=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/MUMPS_4.10.0-p3.tar.gz  \
>  --download-ParMetis=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/parmetis-4.0.2-p3.tar.gz
> \
>  --download-SuperLU=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/superlu_4.3.tar.gz \
>  --download-SuperLU-DIST=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/superlu_dist_3.1.tar.gz
> \
>  --download-blacs=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/blacs-dev.tar.gz \
>  --download-hdf5=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/hdf5-1.8.8-p1.tar.gz \
>  --download-scalapack=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/SCALAPACK-1.7.tar.gz \
>
>  --download-spooles=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/spooles-2.2-dec-2008.tar.gz
>
> make PETSC_DIR=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/petsc-3.3-p3
> PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-cxx-opt all
>
>  make PETSC_DIR=/srv/global/work/sources/PISM/petsc-3.3-p3
> PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-cxx-opt install
>
> make PETSC_DIR=/opt/PETSc/petsc-3.3-p3/PISM test
>
> export PETSC_DIR=/opt/PETSc/petsc-3.3-p3/PISM
> cd ./src/snes/examples/tutorials/
> make ex19
>
> ./ex19 -contours -info
>
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