Re: [OMPI devel] Which compiler versions to test?

2020-10-09 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via devel
On Oct 8, 2020, at 9:40 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet via devel 
 wrote:
> 
> On RHEL 8.x, the default gcc compiler is 8.3.1, so I think it is worth 
> testing.

Excellent point.

> Containers could be used to setup a RHEL 8.x environment (so not only
> gcc but also third party libs such as libevent and hwloc can be used)
> if the MTT cluster will not shrink bigger.


I doubt I have enough time to set that up, but I can certainly get gcc 8.3.1 
installed and added to my list.  It's probably "close enough" to RHEL's 8.3.1 
for MTT purposes.

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Re: [OMPI devel] [EXTERNAL] Which compiler versions to test?

2020-10-09 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via devel
On Oct 8, 2020, at 9:59 PM, Baker, Lawrence M  wrote:
> 
> The PGI/nVidia compiler suite is free now and could become more significant 
> in the ARM world, now that nVidia has acquired ARM.  We use PGI on our 
> cluster, along with the others you support.

Yes, quite probably true.

NVIDIA is actually a member of the Open MPI community.

Akshay: are you testing Open MPI with the PGI compiler in MTT?

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