[mpich-discuss] Very long configuration time

Yida Wang yidawa at gmail.com
Wed May 21 13:42:26 CDT 2014


It is still running, so definitely more than a few minutes. Any other thing
that I did wrong?


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:32 PM, "Antonio J. Peña" <apenya at mcs.anl.gov>wrote:

>
> On a decent system, I'd expect it to finish in a few minutes at most.
>
>   Antonio
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>
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> On 05/21/2014 01:30 PM, Yida Wang wrote:
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> Thanks for your reply, Antonio! Yes, I was using NFS before, am trying on
> local disk now. BTW, what will a normal time be?
>
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> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:20 PM, "Antonio J. Peña" <apenya at mcs.anl.gov>wrote:
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>>
>> Hi YW,
>>
>> Although 8h looks like a very long time to me, it's likely due to a
>> network filesystem. If that's the case, configuring MPICH in a local
>> filesystem (e.g. /temp, /tmp, /scratch) should go back to normal times.
>>
>>   Antonio
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>>
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>> On 05/21/2014 01:17 PM, Yida Wang wrote:
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>>  Hi Guys,
>>
>>  I would like to try out the feature of talking to Intel-MIC in MPICH2.
>> Therefore I downloaded mpich-3.1 and configured it as
>>
>>> "./configure --host=x86_64-k1om-linux CC=icc CXX=icpc F77=ifort
>>> FC=ifort CFLAGS=-mmic CXXFLAGS=-mmic FFLAGS=-mmic FCFLAGS=-mmic
>>> LDFLAGS=-mmic"
>>
>>
>>  However, it took a very long time (i.e. 8 hours) for me to finish the
>> configuration. Is it normal? Notice that my system doesn't have Infiniband
>> but 10GigE connection. However, I don't think this would affect the
>> configuration time.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> YW
>>
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