Thread: Installing Intel Compiler on Red Hat HPC

Hi folks,
I've just finished installing Red Hat HPC. All components and kits seems to be working. As our people also want to use Intel compiler in HPC setup; could someone throw light on its installation. We have gone for "rhel-compute-nodes" kind of node provisioning. Our question is

1. Do we need to install Intel compiler in only Install node or all compute nodes as well
2. Can we use Lava for distributing Intel compiler related jobs

Additionally, are there any test applications that we can run on HPC to see if it is working well

thanks in advance

Hi

I would suggest installing the compilers and runtime onto the master and exporting them to the compute nodes. You will need the intel runtime on the compute nodes.

There are several hpc examples like cpi.c in the various mpi stack.

-Liming

Thanks a lot for your valuable reply.
When we are using Lava, "bsub" seems to be the way for submitting jobs
however I believe it is a wrapper for openmpi2, is there any way that we can use lava for submitting and managing jobs for intel compiler as well

Hi

As long as the Intel runtime are distributed on the compute nodes, there should be no problem running programs compiled with Intel compilers.

You will just need to be careful of LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Intel usually provide some environment script like iccvar.sh and alike.

-Liming

Thanks again Liming, I'll try that out and share my experience