[Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

[Jonathan Aquilina]

This question probably sounds like a stupid one, but what difference in an
HPC environment and to parallel written code does compiler version make?

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> On 01/07/14 10:27, Christopher Samuel wrote:
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>> then all the applications are in /usr/local
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> To quickly qualify that, our naming scheme is:
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> /usr/local/$application/$version-$compiler/
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> We name modules as:
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> $application-$compiler/$version
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> so someone can do:
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> module load gromacs-intel
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> and get the latest version of Gromacs built with the Intel compilers.
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> Then we can do these tricks like pull values out in relatively generic
> module files thus:
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> [...]
> set ver [lrange [split [ module-info name ] / ] 1 1 ]
> set name [lrange [split [ module-info name ] / ] 0 0 ]
> set subname [lrange [split $name - ] 0 0 ]
> set compiler [lrange [split $name - ] 1 1 ]
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> if { ![ is-loaded $compiler ] } {
>   module load $compiler
> }
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> prepend-path PATH /usr/local/$subname/$ver-$compiler/bin
> [...]
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> :-)
>
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>  Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
>  VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
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