Conference call notes 20151203

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Notes on the EasyBuild conference call dedicated to discussing installation issues with the 2016 versions of the Intel tools, Wednesday December 3rd 2015 (10am - 11am CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (8):

• Damian Alvarez Mallon (JSC, Germany)
• Fotis Georgatos (freelancer)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Lumír Jasiok (IIT4Innovations, Czech Republic)
• Luca Marcella (CSCS, Switzerland)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Ward Poelmans (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Martin Stachon (IIT4Innovations, Czech Republic)

Agenda

• discussing the issues related to supporting the 2016 versions of the Intel compilers/libraries

Notes

Known issues

• changed layout of install directories: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/new-directory-layout-for-intel-parallel-studio-xe-2016
• 'fat' installations of icc/ifort: also include TBB, MKL, ... by default
• broken versioning scheme
• incompatibility of Intel 2016.0.109 (and earlier) with GCC 5.x (https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/2100)
• issues with silent.cfg file
  • non-rpm install option broken (missing files)
  • doesn't work with tbb/ipp/itac(?)
  • changes were required to tbb/ipp/itac easyblocks for Intel tools (Lumír)
    • PR will be opened
  • move contents of silent.cfg to easyconfig files?
    • support this as an optional way, to override the logic in the easyblocks?

WIP

• overview issue: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/issues/751
• wrapper PR by Ward (@wpoely86) to fix support for Intel 2016: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/756
  • combination of:
    • update of icc easyblock: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/691 (@DirkDeDraak)
    • update for imkl 11.3.1: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/745 (Lumír, a.k.a. @jas02)
• easyconfigs for new versions of intel toolchain:
  • intel/2016.00, with 2016.0.109 compilers: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/1973 (@DirkDeDraak)
  • intel/2016.01, with 2016.1.150 compilers: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/2148 (Lumír, a.k.a. @jas02)

Action plan

• Lumír: open PRs tbb/ipp/itac/vtune easyblocks
• Kenneth/Ward: looks in easyblocks update + testing/updating PRs for intel/2016.* toolchain easyconfigs
• should be possible by EasyBuild 2.5