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6 6  
7 7  Bash users can add the following lines to their .bashrc:
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9 -{{{export OMPI_FC='ifort'
10 -export OMPI_F77='ifort'
11 -export OMPI_CC='icc'}}}
9 +export ompi_fc='ifort'
10 +export ompi_f77='ifort'
11 +export ompi_cc='icc'
12 12  
13 +Especially if you use icc, it will be better if you use the recent ~[~[Intel Compiler 11.0>>Intel_Compiler_Temp]].
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15 -Especially if you use icc, it will be better if you use the recent [[Intel Compiler 11.0>>Intel_Compiler_Temp]].
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17 17  == Infiniband ==
18 18  
19 19  The 'itp'-, 'itp-big'-, 'dfg-xeon'-, 'iboga'-, 'dreama'- and 'barcelona'-nodes have Infiniband Network. It is used by default when using our openMPI installation. Infiniband provides high bandwith with low latency. It can transport 20 GB/s with latency of 4 µs. In comparison, normal Gigabit Ethernet provides 1 GB/s with at least 30 µs latency. Latency is the time a data packet needs to travel from the source to its target. This is the main drawback when using Gigibit Ethernet for MPI communication.
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19 += Mellanox HPCX =
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21 +Mellanox is the manufacturer of our Infiniband hardware. They provide an optimized set of libraries for running parallel programs.
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23 +With the recent update to Ubuntu 18.04 some programs failed with the system default openMPI library. As alternative we have installed a system wide HPCX software.
24 +
25 +This lives in
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27 + /home/software/hpcx/current .
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29 +This points to the latest installed version.
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31 +To use this library you have to extend your .bashrc. Include the following lines:
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33 +export HPCX_HOME=/home/software/hpcx/current
34 +source $HPCX_HOME/hpcx-init.sh
35 +
36 +This doesn't change your actual environment yet. To finally activate the setup call:
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38 +hpcx_load
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40 +Then all MPI tools are loaded from HPCX. This is required for building and running. You may call this is in your jobs-scripts.
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42 +There are other MPI flavours in HPCX. Read the documentation within there:
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44 +/home/software/hpcx/current/README.txt
45 +