[mpich-discuss] Very long configuration time

[Yida Wang]

Yes, my Intel compiler is on NFS. I think this may be the reason. Thanks
for your reply.

YW


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Kenneth Raffenetti <raffenet at mcs.anl.gov>wrote:

> The Intel compilers could also be a source of slowdown. Are they installed
> on a network filesystem? They may also call out to a network license server
> each time they are invoked for a compile test. Does just compiling a small
> program take a long time with icc, ifort, etc.?
>
>
> On 05/21/2014 01:42 PM, Yida Wang wrote:
>
>> 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
>> <mailto:apenya at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On a decent system, I'd expect it to finish in a few minutes at most.
>>
>>        Antonio
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 05/21/2014 01:30 PM, Yida Wang wrote:
>>
>>>     Thanks for your reply, Antonio! Yes, I was using NFS before, am
>>>     trying on local disk now. BTW, what will a normal time be?
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:20 PM, "Antonio J. Peña"
>>>     <apenya at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:apenya at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>         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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 05/21/2014 01:17 PM, Yida Wang wrote:
>>>
>>>>         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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