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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:05:22PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 10/16/12 6:05 AM, Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 08:35:20PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:28:50PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> Do we have that documented somewhere? It would be good to get this
> >>>>> into Dorsal (if possible) to make it easy to share the knowledge of
> >>>>> how to build 'hpc' versions of FEniCS on some standard systems.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Not documented, but the issue is simple: with dynamically linked
> >>>> libraries in standard paths it's mayhem trying figure out what's being
> >>>> linked when different libraries link to different library versions  of
> >>>> the same package..
> >>>
> >>> Could you share some pointers on how you have set up your build, which
> >>> versions of packages (MPICH or OpenMPI), which BLAS, version numbers
> >>> etc and I can try to replicate and think about whether this can be
> >>> documented as part of Dorsal or somewhere else.
> >>>
> >>
> >> - Most important is ATLAS for BLAS (if MKL is not available)
> >>
> >>     http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/
> >>
> >> I use v3.10. It can take a long time to build, and can be tricky (e.g.
> >> it won't build if the CPU clock frequency is being dynamically
> >> controlled).
> >>
> >> - Build LAPACK to use ATLAS BLAS
> >>
> >> - Build latest OpenMPI with support for threads turned on. MPICH2
> >> works fine too.
> >>
> >> - Build Boost so that Boost.MPI uses the manually installed MPI
> >>
> >> - Install CGAL to use the manually installed Boost
> >>
> >> - Build latest METIS and ParMETIS (Ubuntu ParMETIS is broken, and it
> >> pull in MPI)
> >>
> >> - Build VTK (so that the Ubuntu version doesn't pull in MPI)
> >>
> >> - Build HDF5 with parallel suppport  (so that the Ubuntu version
> >> doesn't pull in MPI)
> >>
> >> - Build SCOTCH and PaStiX with support for 64 bit integers
> >>
> >> - Build PETSc, SLEPc and Trilinos, linking to the above libraries.
> >>
> >> There are probably some tricks to getting around some changes by using
> >> the Ubuntu 'alternatives' system.
> >
> > Thanks! I'll try this and report how it goes.
>
> And please create suitable dorsal packages/platform if you arrive at
> repeatable sequence of steps.

That's my plan.

--
Anders