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diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_parallel b/release_docs/INSTALL_parallel index 2624b3b..c38c3fc 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL_parallel +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_parallel @@ -107,89 +107,9 @@ This allows for >2GB sized files on Linux systems and is only available with Linux kernels 2.4 and greater. -2.4. Red Storm (Cray XT3) (for v1.8 and later) +2.4. Hopper (Cray XE6) (for v1.8 and later) ------------------------- -Both serial and parallel HDF5 are supported in Red Storm. -2.4.1 Building serial HDF5 for Red Storm ------------------------------------------- -The following steps are for building the serial HDF5 for the Red Storm -compute nodes. They would probably work for other Cray XT3 systems but have -not been verified. - -# Assume you already have a copy of HDF5 source code in directory `hdf5' and -# want to install the binary in directory `/project/hdf5/hdf5'. - -$ cd hdf5 -$ bin/yodconfigure configure -$ env RUNSERIAL="yod -sz 1" \ - CC=cc FC=ftn CXX=CC \ - ./configure --prefix=/project/hdf5/hdf5 -$ make -$ make check - -# if all is well, install the binary. -$ make install - -2.4.2 Building parallel HDF5 for Red Storm ------------------------------------------- -The following steps are for building the Parallel HDF5 for the Red Storm -compute nodes. They would probably work for other Cray XT3 systems but have -not been verified. - -# Assume you already have a copy of HDF5 source code in directory `hdf5' and -# want to install the binary in directory `/project/hdf5/phdf5'. You also -# have done the proper setup to have mpicc and mpif90 as the compiler commands. - -$ cd hdf5 -$ bin/yodconfigure configure -$ env RUNSERIAL="yod -sz 1" RUNPARALLEL="yod -sz 3" \ - CC=cc FC=ftn \ - ./configure --enable-parallel --prefix=/project/hdf5/phdf5 -$ make -$ make check - -# if all is well, install the binary. -$ make install - -2.4.3 Red Storm known problems ------------------------------- -For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the -message, "yod allocation delayed for node recovery". This interferes with -test suites that do not expect seeing this message. To bypass this problem, -I launch the executables with a command shell script called "myyod" which -consists of the following lines. (You should set $RUNSERIAL and $RUNPARALLEL -to use myyod instead of yod.) -==== myyod ======= -#!/bin/sh -# sleep 2 seconds to allow time for the node recovery else it pops the -# message, -# yod allocation delayed for node recovery -sleep 2 -yod $* -==== end of myyod ======= - -For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh will fail on -the test "Testing h5ls -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5" fails. This test is -expected to fail and exit with a non-zero code but the yod command does -not propagate the exit code of the executables. Yod always returns 0 if it -can launch the executable. The test suite shell expects a non-zero for -this particular test, therefore it concludes the test has failed when it -receives 0 from yod. To bypass this problem for now, change the following -lines in the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh. -======== Original ========= -# The following combination of arguments is expected to return an error message -# and return value 1 -TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5 -======== Skip the test ========= -echo SKIP TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5 -======== end of bypass ======== - -2.5. Hopper (Cray XE6) (for v1.8 and later) -------------------------- - -2.5.1 Building HDF5 for Hopper ------------------------------------------- The following steps are for building HDF5 for the Hopper compute nodes. They would probably work for other Cray systems but have not been verified. @@ -226,43 +146,6 @@ The build will be in build-hdf5/hdf5/ (or whatever you specify in --prefix). To compile other HDF5 applications use the wrappers created by the build (build-hdf5/hdf5/bin/h5pcc or h5fc) -2.5.2 Hopper known issues ------------------------------- -Issue 1: -Sometimes when building the library with make, you might get this problem: - -LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH`echo | \ -sed -e 's/-L/:/g' -e 's/ -//g'`" \ -./H5make_libsettings > H5lib_settings.c -|| \ -(test $HDF5_Make_Ignore && echo "*** Error ignored") -|| \ -(rm -f H5lib_settings.c ; exit 1) -/bin/sh: line 4: 9644 Segmentation fault -LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH`echo | sed -e 's/-L/:/g' -e 's/ -//g'`" ./H5make_libsettings > H5lib_settings.c - -If that happens, you are probable running with make -j <x>. In that -case, you need to cleanup everything and start again as detailed above -but use serial make (do not use -j <x>). - -Issue 2: -* When building using the Cray compilers on Cray machines, HDF5 - configure mistakenly thinks the compiler is an intel compiler and - sets the -std=c99 flag which breaks configure on Cray. To build HDF5 - properly on a Cray machine, please consult with the instructions in - INSTALL_parallel for building on Hopper. - (MSC - 2013/04/26 - HDFFV-8429) - -Issue 3: -* On hopper, the build failed when RUNSERIAL and RUNPARALLEL are set - to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated - properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because - configure was able to automatically detect that it's a Cray system - and used the proper launch commands when necessary. - (MSC - 2012/04/18) - 3. Detail explanation --------------------- |