[OMPI devel] configure --with paths don't allow for absolute path specification

2017-09-01 Thread Phil K via devel
I just wanted to share a workaround I came up with for this openmpi configure issue. When specifying header paths in configure, openmpi adds an /include subpath the --with-pmi specifier(and others).  This is documented very clearly.  Recently, in switching over to internal pmix, I wanted to rip

Re: [OMPI devel] KNL/hwloc funny message question

2017-09-01 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Howard, i faced the same issue after a MPSS (Intel software stack for many core) update. as Brice explained, the issue comes from the embedded (and older) hwloc does understand the file format written by MPSS (more recent) hwloc. i simply rebuilt Open MPI with the external hwloc provided by MPSS

Re: [OMPI devel] KNL/hwloc funny message question

2017-09-01 Thread Brice Goglin
Hello This message is related to /var/cache/hwloc/knl_memoryside_cache. This file exposes the KNL cluster and MCDRAM configuration, only accessible from root-only files. hwloc-dump-hwdata runs at boot time to create that file, and non-root hwloc users can read it later. Failing to read that file b

[OMPI devel] KNL/hwloc funny message question

2017-09-01 Thread Howard Pritchard
Hi Folks, I just now subscribed to the hwloc user mail list, but I suspect that requires human intervention to get on, and that might not mean something happening till next week. Alas google has failed me in helping to understand the message. So, I decided to post to Open MPI devel list and see