[Mvapich-discuss] Compiling / Instalation without osu-benchmark

[Shineman, Nat]

Joachim,

Thanks for reaching out to us. First off, we would recommend mvapich2-2.3.6 for your use case. mv2-virt is very old and has not been updated for some time. Using a debian based container should be fine. Everything will compile normally from within the container, just ensure that you have GNU Autotools installed.

Unfortunately, at this time we do not have a configure time flag for disabling the OMB suite. We will look into adding support for this in our upcoming 2.3.7 release. For the time being we can suggest a workaround. When you run make install​ though you should see all of the OMB binaries in a directory called libexec​ in your mvapich2 installation directory. If you are installing it in the default location (/usr) you will see a directory /usr/libexec/osu-micro-benchmarks​, in my experience it is typically around 3MB. You can delete this directory to remove the installed binaries from your system. This will have no impact on the rest of the library's functionality.

Regarding the other disable options: running ./configure --help​ will list all of the configuration options available to you. You are correct that --disable-fortran​ is one way to reduce the installation size. Likewise you can use --disable-cxx​ to disable C++ bindings if you only wish to have C libraries installed. However, there is no option for "disable all" as many of the enable/disable flags are used to determine feature sets within the library and not actual binaries. Please ensure that you set --enable-g=none​ (which should be default) to remove all debugging symbols and reduce size. Other than that, just avoiding enabling additional features should yield the smallest libraries possible.

Please let us know if you have any trouble with the installation or if the compiled libraries are still too large and we can see what can be done.

Thanks,
Nat
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Subject: [Mvapich-discuss] Compiling / Instalation without osu-benchmark

Hi MVAPICH-Team,

we want to use containers for a cloud-project. To minimize the container-size &ability, we would like to disable for some, the benchmark-test and compiling ability. Could you give us a recommendation to do so?

We would like to use a debian-version(instead of centos) in the container.

As far as I understood with <--disable-x> the compiling ability can be reduced, e.g. <--disable-fortran> for fortran. Is there an option to disable all? What is the option to disable the osu-benchmarks?
Would you recommend the package <MV2-virt-2.2> or <MV2-2.3.6> for any cloud?

Sincerely
Joachim Tscheuschner
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