Hi Joachim,
On 03/02/2017 15:59, Joachim Hein wrote:
Hi Kenneth,
Cool, congratulations on getting this out. From the discussions on this list
(and the meeting minutes) I figured that the Intel 16 RHEL 7.3 issues is (about
to be) resolved. I was expecting a mention here in the “EB 3.1 release email”.
Can you elaborate? Do I just rebuild my Intel 2016a/b toolchains or do I (an
my users) need to recompile all applications build against this? Is there any
“official EB statement/instructions”?
Thanks and have a nice weekend - you deserve it (so answer on Monday is fine ;)
)
It's Monday, but maybe not the one you had in mind. ;-)
Last week was crazy busy with FOSDEM and the EasyBuild User Meeting, I'm
slowly regaining control of my inbox again now...
EasyBuild v3.1.0 does not include a fix for the Intel v16 vs RHEL 7.3
problem out of the box, and I'm not sure it should (although I'm open to
feedback here).
The official workaround is posted at
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-compiler-version-16-not-compatible-with-recent-libcso6,
which boils down to copying the broken library from a newer version of
the Intel compilers.
regards,
Kenneth
Best wishes
Joachim
On 3 Feb 2017, at 15:37, Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.ho...@ugent.be> wrote:
Dear EasyBuilders,
I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild version 3.1.0 [1].
I'm not going to say this is the best EasyBuild release ever this time. Or
maybe I will. This is the best EasyBuild release ever.
This is a feature release, which includes:
* support for --check-style to check 'code' style in easyconfig files (more
on that later...)
* architecture-specific optimization flags can now be specified on a
per-compiler basis via --optarch
* see
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Controlling_compiler_optimization_flags.html
* improved toolchain support on ARM and POWER systems
* a custom easyblock for FFTW that maximizes use of processor features (by
default)
* updates to the CP2K and WPS easyblocks for the latest versions
* toolchain definitions for the foss/2017a and intel/2017a common toolchains
* see http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Common-toolchains.html
for more informatio
* support for 16 new software packages, incl. QIIME (via conda) and
Tensorflow
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 1,152 [2]!
A detailed overview of all changes is available in the release notes [3].
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v3.1.0, there are several options, see [4].
Two particularly easy options include:
* eb --install-latest-eb-release # requires EasyBuild v2.9.0
* eb --from-pr 4100 # use easyconfig from PR #4100 [5]
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth (a.k.a. boegel)
EasyBuild release manager
[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild/3.1.0
[2]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/Supported_software.html
[3] http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html
[4]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#updating-an-existing-easybuild-installation
[5] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/4100/files
