2016-11-03 15:12 GMT+01:00 Vanzo, Davide <[email protected]>:

> Pablo,
>
> I am trying to install the 2017.1 version and I will be happy to share as
> soon as I fix a little issue with the MKL.
>


thanks!



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> Davide Vanzo, PhD
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> Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
> Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)
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> On Nov 3 2016, at 6:23 am, Pablo Escobar Lopez <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ole,
>>
>> Could you share your iomkl easyconfig using the latest intel2017 compiler?
>>
>> regards,
>> Pablo.
>>
>> 2016-11-03 12:07 GMT+01:00 Fotis Georgatos <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi Ole, all,
>>
>> On Nov 2, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Ole Holm Nielsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On 11/02/2016 12:52 PM, Åke Sandgren wrote:
>> >> env INTEL_LICENSE_FILE=port@host eb intel-2016a.eb ...
>> >
>> > Fantastic, this worked for me!  I wonder where the usage of
>> license_file and/or INTEL_LICENSE_FILE within EB might be documented?
>>
>> It SHOULD ;-)
>>
>> There’s one caveat with the port@host approach:
>>
>> One day, Intel’s practices will force you to setup a second license server
>> (either because you need to setup a new flexlm server version or,
>> because Intel has the nasty habit of silently deprecating old components
>> in new licenses
>> and you need to point to a test instance without touching your production
>> instance yet)
>>
>> So, it’s more beneficial to point to a file, so that you can easily
>> redirect clients
>> to a new server instance, from a *single* point of control - without
>> touching the modulefiles at all!
>> If you have 100s of Intel modulefiles in module buildset trees, you know
>> what I’m talking about!
>>
>> Also one more potential caveat: although it IS possible to drop in that
>> one just the first 2 lines
>> of the license file (ie. license server coordinates) don’t do that either
>> and use the whole thing:
>> I’ve met situations where certain Intel components (not all) have bugs
>> and don’t cooperate well.
>> I no longer have the Intel ticket numbers but you can take my word for
>> it: I’ve spend endless hours around it.
>>
>> Last but not least, something I’ve not tried yet: you could be pointing
>> instead to a licensefile
>> sitting on /dev/shm, presumably populated at node boot time, so that you
>> can have more granularity
>> of control - at node level rather than cluster. This would permit you fi.
>> to modify node behaviour
>> in a rolling update fashion. I haven’t yet been hit by the absence of
>> this but it’s a nice to have.
>>
>> Fotis
>>
>> --
>> echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \
>>   | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
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>> --
>> Pablo Escobar López
>> HPC systems engineer
>> sciCORE, University of Basel
>> SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
>> http://scicore.unibas.ch
>>
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HPC systems engineer
sciCORE, University of Basel
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
http://scicore.unibas.ch

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