[mvapich-discuss] Compiling MVAPICH2-1.9a on Host without IB

sreeram potluri potluri at cse.ohio-state.edu
Wed Sep 26 08:17:57 EDT 2012


Jiri,

Good to know that this helped. MVAPICH2 does require libibverbs to be
installed on the nodes.

Sreeram Potluri

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Jiri Kraus <jkraus at nvidia.com> wrote:

> Hi Sreeram,****
>
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>
> Thanks for pointing me to this. The configure with the OFA-IB-CH3
> interface fails because libibverbs is missing as the Host dos not have a
> Infiniband Card. Building libibverbs anyway solved the problem for me as I
> only need mvapich for intra-node communication on this host.****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks****
>
> ** **
>
> Jiri****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* sreeram.chowdary at gmail.com [mailto:sreeram.chowdary at gmail.com] *On
> Behalf Of *sreeram potluri
> *Sent:* Dienstag, 25. September 2012 17:45
> *To:* Jiri Kraus
> *Cc:* mvapich-discuss at cse.ohio-state.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [mvapich-discuss] Compiling MVAPICH2-1.9a on Host without
> IB****
>
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>
> Jiri, ****
>
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>
> Support for communication from GPU memory is currently not available with
> the OFA-IB-Nemesis interface. Can you try building with the OFA-IB-CH3
> interface as below ****
>
> ** **
>
> ./configure --with-device=ch3:mrail --with-rdma=gen2 --enable-cuda
> --with-cuda=/usr/local/cuda-5.0 --enable-shared --prefix=<...>****
>
> ** **
>
> or you can skip the device option as well as OFA-IB-CH3 is the default****
>
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>
> ./configure --enable-cuda --with-cuda=/usr/local/cuda-5.0 --enable-shared
> --prefix=<...>****
>
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>
> The following sections of the user guide might be useful ****
>
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>
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> http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/support/user_guide_mvapich2-1.9a.html#x1-100004.4
> ****
>
>
> http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/support/user_guide_mvapich2-1.9a.html#x1-140004.5
>
> Let us know if you see any further issues. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Sreeram Potluri****
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jiri Kraus <jkraus at nvidia.com> wrote:***
> *
>
> Hi,
>
> I have some trouble compiling MVAPICH2-1.9a on a Host without an IB
> interface. I used
>
> ./configure --enable-cuda --with-cuda=/usr/local/cuda-5.0 --enable-shared
> --with-device=ch3:nemesis --prefix=<...>
>
> to configure but the build with gcc 4.6.2 on openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) failed
> during compilation of
> mvapich2-1.9a/src/mpid/ch3/channels/nemesis/nemesis/netmod/tcp/tcp_send.c
> with
> tcp_send.c: In function âMPID_nem_tcp_iStartContigMsgâ:
> tcp_send.c:317:31: error: incompatible types when assigning to type âvoid
> *â from type âMPIDI_CH3_PktGeneric_tâ
> tcp_send.c: In function âMPID_nem_tcp_iStartContigMsg_pausedâ:
> tcp_send.c:456:31: error: incompatible types when assigning to type âvoid
> *â from type âMPIDI_CH3_PktGeneric_tâ
> tcp_send.c: In function âMPID_nem_tcp_iSendContigâ:
> tcp_send.c:604:31: error: incompatible types when assigning to type âvoid
> *â from type âMPIDI_CH3_PktGeneric_tâ
> tcp_send.c: In function âMPID_nem_tcp_SendNoncontigâ:
> tcp_send.c:732:31: error: incompatible types when assigning to type âvoid
> *â from type âMPIDI_CH3_PktGeneric_tâ
> make[8]: *** [tcp_send.o] Error 1
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jiri
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