Re: [Boost-mpi] MPI auto-detection failed

Subject: Re: [Boost-mpi] MPI auto-detection failed
From: Éric Germaneau (germaneau_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-10-11 08:31:12

Hey Alain,

Yes, it helps a lot!
Thank you so munch for your very helpful reply.
Kind regards,

                          Éric.

On 10/11/2014 07:33 PM, Alain Miniussi wrote:
> Forget it ;-)
>
> Bjam try to use the most common compiler wraper option to display the 
> link and build command. Intel does not support them anymore (their 
> implementation is based on mpich those options are tested) so bjam 
> cannot use those. To make things worse, mpiicpc -<any unknown option> 
> will not return an error so I am not even sure bjam can try the other 
> option (which do not exist either). There is a feature request filed 
> at intel and things should improve in the future.
>
> That being said:
>
> "mpiicpc -show" will display the options to use to compile directly 
> mpi application through icpc.
>
> On my current box:
>
> icpc -I/opt/intel//impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/include 
> -L/opt/intel//impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/lib/release 
> -L/opt/intel//impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/lib -Xlinker --enable-new-dtags 
> -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker 
> /opt/intel//impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/lib/release -Xlinker -rpath 
> -Xlinker /opt/intel//impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/lib -Xlinker -rpath 
> -Xlinker /opt/intel/mpi-rt/5.0/intel64/lib/release -Xlinker -rpath 
> -Xlinker /opt/intel/mpi-rt/5.0/intel64/lib -lmpicxx -lmpifort -lmpi 
> -lmpigi -ldl -lrt -lpthread
>
> you can use that to deduce the include path, library path and libraries.
>
> From there, you can explicitly configure the mpi section of your 
> project-config.jam, on my box, that's:
>
> using mpi : :
>       <find-shared-library>mpi
>       <find-shared-library>mpigi
>       <find-shared-library>dl
>       <find-shared-library>rt
>       <find-shared-library>pthread
>       <library-path>/opt/intel/impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/lib
> <library-path>/opt/intel/impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/lib/release
>       <include>/opt/intel/impi/5.0.1.035/include64
>        ;
>
> You might want to set the run path too depending on you preferences 
> wrt dynamic libraries.
> There is an extra argument which could be usefull to set if you want 
> to run the test, depending on you intel's version of MPI:
>
> using mpi : :
>       <find-shared-library>mpi
>       <find-shared-library>mpigi
>       <find-shared-library>dl
>       <find-shared-library>rt
>       <find-shared-library>pthread
>       <library-path>/opt/intel/impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/lib
> <library-path>/opt/intel/impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/lib/release
>       <include>/opt/intel/impi/5.0.1.035/include64
>      :
>        opt/intel/impi/5.0.1.035/intel64/bin/mpiexec.hydra
>      ;
>
> that's a flavour of mpiexec that does not require the mpd daemon to be 
> running. It should become the default but I think at least mpiexec 
> still requires the daemon for the impi 5.x version.
>
> Don't forget to have a look at boost/mpi/config.hpp and look for:
> //#define BOOST_MPI_HOMOGENEOUS
> you probably want to undocument it.
>
> Hope it help.
>
> A++
>
> Alain
>
> On 11/10/2014 07:03, Éric Germaneau wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm building boost for the first time.
>> I'm using Intel compiler.
>> The b2 command print this message:
>>
>>     MPI auto-detection failed: unknown wrapper compiler mpic++
>>     Please report this error to the Boost mailing list:
>>     http://www.boost.org
>>     You will need to manually configure MPI support.
>>
>> Would you please shed some light on this matter?
>> I need to use mpiicc and mpiicpc.
>> Thank you,
>>
>>                      Éric.
>>
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>
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Center for High Performance Computing
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Room 205 Network Center, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240 China
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