[mpich-discuss] problem on configuring MPI with slurm

[Balaji, Pavan]

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Run configure without those options:

./configure --prefix=/zhuxm/mpich-3.1 --enable-fast=all,03 CC=icc CXX=icpc F77=ifort FC=ifort

 — Pavan

On May 20, 2014, at 1:02 AM, 朱学明 <zhuxm at nmefc.gov.cn> wrote:

> Pavan,
> 
>     Thank you for your quickly response. Can you tell me that should I get rid of --with-slurm option only, or any other friend options, such as --with-pmi=slurm --with-pm=no ?
> 
>      Can you show me the exact options what I need? 
> 
> 
> --
> Xueming Zhu 朱学明
> Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting (LoMF), SOA
> National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC)
> No.8 Dahuisi Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081
> People's Republic of China
> Tel: +86-10-82481923
> 
> 
> 在 2014-05-20 14:24:44 ， Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov> 写道：
> 
> We should just get rid of the --with-slurm option in MPICH. It’s pretty useless for two reasons: 
> 
> 1. You don’t need to configure mpich with slurm at all, unless you are planning to use srun/salloc directly. You can just build mpich normally and run with mpiexec. mpiexec will internally detect that you are using a slurm environment and use srun internally. 
> 
> 2. If you really want to use srun/salloc, you can just build your application with mpicc -L/path/to/slurm foo.c -lpmi and it’ll pick up slurm’s PMI library. Then you can use srun/salloc. 
> 
> Xueming, 
> 
> My suggestion is, forget the slurm option. Just build mpich normally and run it with mpiexec. It’ll automatically use slurm internally. 
> 
> — Pavan 
> 
> On May 19, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Kenneth Raffenetti <raffenet at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: 
> 
> > configure expects a directory named slurm under the location you specify. Try using '--with-slurm=/usr/local' in your configure line instead. 
> > 
> > Ken 
> > 
> > On 05/19/2014 07:06 PM, 朱学明 wrote: 
> >> Hello, 
> >> 
> >> I am trying to install MPICH-3.1 on our linux server with Slurm 
> >> 1.2.25. I configured it with the command as follow, 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ./configure --prefix=/zhuxm/mpich-3.1 CC=icc CXX=icpc F77=ifort 
> >> FC=ifort -enable-fast=all,O3 -enable-shared --with-rdma=gen2 
> >> --with-pmi=slurm --with-pm=no --with-slurm=/usr/local/slurm 
> >> --with-ib-include=/usr/local/ib_hpc/include 
> >> --with-ib-libpath=/usr/local/ib_hpc/lib64 --with-ch3-rank-bits=32 
> >> --without-mpe --without-hwloc --disable-rdma-cm -disable-fuse 2>&1 |tee 
> >> config-min.log 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Then I have got the error messages as follow, 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Checking slurm/pmi.h usability ... no 
> >> 
> >> Checking slurm/pmi.h presence... no 
> >> 
> >> Checking for slurm/pmi.h... no 
> >> 
> >> configure: error: could not find slurm/pmi.h. Configure aborted 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Can you give mu any suggestion how to figure out the issue? Thanks. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> *Xueming Zhu 朱学明* 
> >> Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting (*LoMF*), SOA 
> >> National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (*NMEFC*) 
> >> No.8 Dahuisi Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081 
> >> People's Republic of China 
> >> Tel: +86-10-82481923 
> >> 
> >> 
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