Charm++ parallel programming system

[Phil Miller <mille121 AT illinois.edu>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 17:11, Swartz, Brent A. (GSFC-610.3)[ADVANCED
MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY] 
<brent.a.swartz AT nasa.gov>
 wrote:
> In order to install the latest NAMD on our cluster here I am attempting to
> build charm for our Intel Xeon EM64T processor (Nehamlem, Harpertown,
> Woodcrest, Dempsey) cluster running SUSE Linux here at NASA GSFC. I want to
> use the Intel compilers (icc, ifort) and Intel MPI to communicate between
> the nodes.  So I have the following modules loaded on our system:
>
> module load comp/intel-11.1.072 mpi/impi-3.2.2.006
>
> baswartz@discover08:/discover/nobackup/baswartz/bench/NAS_BM_PGK/NAMD/NAMD_2
> .7b4_Source/charm-6.2.2> uname -a
> Linux discover08 2.6.16.60-0.42.5-smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 09:41:41 UTC 2009
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Then I attempt to build charm:
>
> env MPICXX=mpicxx ./build charm++ mpi-linux icc ifort --no-build-shared
> --with-production >& build.out.3
>
> If you like I can email you the entire build.out.3 file, but the main
> problems appear to be:
>
> [snip irrelevant parts]
>
> Running configure on i386-gcc
> ( cd QuickThreads ; /usr/bin/gmake qt  OPTS='-optimize  -nobs' ) || ( echo
> "Did you try to build net-linux on a 64-bit system? Try net-linux-x86_64" &&
> false )
> gmake[1]: Entering directory
> `/gpfsm/dnb33/baswartz/bench/NAS_BM_PGK/NAMD/NAMD_2.7b4_Source/charm-6.2.2/m
> pi-linux-ifort-icc/tmp/QuickThreads'
> rm -f qtmd.h
> ln -s md/i386.h qtmd.h
> ../../bin/charmc -seq -I. -o qt.o qt.c
> as -o qtmds.o md/i386.s
> md/i386.s: Assembler messages:
> md/i386.s:69: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:70: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:71: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:72: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:77: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:78: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:79: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:81: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call'
> md/i386.s:84: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
> md/i386.s:85: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
> md/i386.s:86: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
> md/i386.s:87: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
> md/i386.s:98: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:99: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call'
> md/i386.s:100: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
> md/i386.s:102: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call'
> md/i386.s:104: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:105: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> md/i386.s:106: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call'
> gmake[1]: *** [qt] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/gpfsm/dnb33/baswartz/bench/NAS_BM_PGK/NAMD/NAMD_2.7b4_Source/charm-6.2.2/m
> pi-linux-ifort-icc/tmp/QuickThreads'
> Did you try to build net-linux on a 64-bit system? Try net-linux-x86_64
> gmake: *** [QUICK_THREADS] Error 1
> -------------------------------------------------
> Charm++ NOT BUILT. Either cd into mpi-linux-ifort-icc/tmp and try
> to resolve the problems yourself, visit
> http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/
> for more information. Otherwise, email the developers at 
> charm AT cs.uiuc.edu
>
> I suspect I am missing something in the charm build... Any Suggestions?
>
> I also attempted to build with:
> env MPICXX=mpicxx ./build charm++ mpi-linux-x86_64 ifort --no-build-shared
> --with-production >& build.out.2
>
> But that apparently is for Opterons.

As Chao Mei suggested, mpi-linux-x86_64 is the right build target for
your EM64T (64-bit x86) systems, which use the same ISA as Opterons.
Did that build fail? If so, what was the resulting error?

Phil