Charm++ parallel programming system

[Brian Radak <brian.radak AT gmail.com>]

Hello,

I recently pulled the latest charm++ in order to recompile NAMD on the Argonne Theta supercomputer - the prescribed process (from Jim Philips) now fails.

The specific build command is
$ ./build charm++ gni-crayxc-persistent-smp -j8 --no-build-shared --with-production -xMIC-AVX512

We previously had issues with icc version 17, but this happens with 17, 16, and even a beta of 18. The particular (abridged) errors that stick out are:

gmake[1]: Entering directory 'charm/gni-crayxc-persistent-smp/tmp/topomanager'
gcc: error: language MIC-AVX512 not recognized
Fatal Error by charmc in directory charm/gni-crayxc-persistent-smp/tmp
   Command gcc -D_REENTRANT -I../bin/../include -D__CHARMC__=1 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -I./../include -D__CHARMC__=1 -xMIC-AVX512 -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -c conv-cpm.c -o conv-cpm.o returned error code 1

and later

global-elfgot.C(78): error: #error directive: "Global-elfgot won't work properly under smp version: -swapglobals disabled"
  #  error "Global-elfgot won't work properly under smp version: -swapglobals disabled"
compilation aborted for global-elfgot.C (code 2)
Fatal Error by charmc in directory /home/radak/Software/namd/charm/gni-crayxc-persistent-smp/tmp
   Command CC -D_REENTRANT -I../bin/../include -D__CHARMC__=1 -xMIC-AVX512 -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -std=c++11 -D_REENTRANT -I./../include -D__CHARMC__=1 -xMIC-AVX512 -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -c global-elfgot.C -o global-elfgot.o returned error code 2
charmc exiting...
Warning: building shared library is not supported, recompile charm++ with '--build-shared'.

Can you offer any suggestions? Should I go back to an older release just to be sure this is not an issue with updates on Theta (I haven't recompiled for several months).

Regards,

Brian Radak

former Theta ESP postdoc at ALCF

currently on staff at TCBG