Charm++ parallel programming system

[Phil Miller <mille121 AT illinois.edu>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:10, Mostafa 
Gaber<Mostafa.Gaber AT bibalex.org>
 wrote:
> I would like to thank you very much for your replies.
>
> 1) We have an MPI library installed, so could I use that command </build  
> AMPI mpi-linux-x86_64>? In that case, should I use mpirun or charmrun to 
> start my charm++ programs?
> 2) Isaac, you told me to use mpirun command to launch my charm++ programs 
> in case I built it with mpi-linux-x86_64 version. I think charmrun will use 
> the MPI library to communicate, am I true?

Either one will work fine. On mpi-* builds of charm++, charmrun is a
wrapper for mpirun. You can use whichever you're more comfortable
with.

Phil

> ________________________________________
> From: Isaac Dooley 
> [idooley AT gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:37 PM
> To: 
> emenese2 AT illinois.edu
> Cc: Mostafa Gaber; 
> ppl AT cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: charm++ with our supercomputer
>
> I would also try installing the mpi-linux-x86_64 version, using an MPI
> which is configured to use the infiniband. Then you can use the
> standard mpirun command to launch your charm++ programs.
>
> Isaac
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:25 AM, 
> <emenese2 AT illinois.edu>
>  wrote:
>>   Hi Mostafa.
>>   I would suggest to start by stalling this version (once you are in the 
>> charm directory):
>> ./build charm++ net-linux-x86_64
>>   Let us know if you have any trouble with it.
>>   Cheers,
>>                       Esteban
>>
>> ---- Original message ----
>>>Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:51:20 +0300
>>>From: Mostafa Gaber 
>>><Mostafa.Gaber AT bibalex.org>
>>>Subject: charm++ with our supercomputer
>>>To: 
>>>"ppl AT cs.uiuc.edu"
>>> 
>>><ppl AT cs.uiuc.edu>
>>>
>>>Hello Mr., Mrs.,
>>>
>>>I am a software engineer in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. I am working on 
>>>our new supercomputer (SC). I'd like to install charm++ on the SC. I have 
>>>read the tutorial, it is really interesting. I found that you specified 
>>>some versions options to the build script such as bluegenep/l. I am 
>>>wondering if there is a version specific to our SC.
>>>
>>>The SC consists of 130 compute nodes, each node has 2 Intel xeon 
>>>processors. They are connected via infiniband and also gig-ethernet.
>>>
>>>Kindly, could you suggest a build command for the charm++ on our SC?