Re: [AMBER-Developers] Second release candidate for AmberTools17

From: Hai Nguyen <nhai.qn.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 00:17:47 -0400

Just FYI to all:
I've added PGI community version (16.10) to travis build and got different
type of error, related to EMIL.

very end: https://api.travis-ci.org/jobs/218320479/log.txt?deansi=true

Hai

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Scott Brozell <sbrozell.rci.rutgers.edu>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:57:09PM -0400, David Case wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017, Gerald Monard wrote:
> > >
> > > However, I've just quickly try to compile AmberTools17 on two different
> > > machines: my laptop (pgi 2016 community edition) and at a HPC center
> (pgi
> > > 16). On both, it fails to compile for different reasons (see
> attachements),
> > > but I'd be interested to test the speed of pmemd and cpptraj :-).
> >
> > The laptop errors are all in /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/exception, which is
> a
> > part of GCC. Is PGI supposed to use this file? Is the community version
> > supposed to be compatible with verison gcc 6.3.1?
> >
> > The hpc error is in configure: looks like the way pgi is reporting
> version
> > information is not understood by configure2. What is the exact (dot)
> version
> > of PGI you are using? Dan reports sucess at this step for PGI 16.9.
> >
> > Can you report the output of "pgcc -V" on the hpc machine?
> >
> > We have 120 lines of fairly fragile code in configure2, just to check
> versions
> > from 9 through 16.5 of PGI. I have the feeling that the only time anyone
> > uses PGI compilers with Amber is in the weeks right before a release. I
> > don't remember any complaints from actual users making it to the mailing
> list.
>
> I use pgi routinely; eg, in early Feb:
> commit 6617bd2954c5806bad39be0db2d782f5b8990861
> Author: Scott Brozell <srb.osc.edu>
> Date: Fri Feb 3 21:53:12 2017 -0500
> Updated PGI support to 16.5.0: pgCC -> pgc++ and -pgcpplibs ->
> -pgc++libs.
>
>
> Of course, we could and probably should pick a version older than 9 or 13
> to start our support which looks like it would then eliminate most version
> checking. Easy post release work.
>
> Yes, we need to see pgcc -V from Gerald.
> I am not seeing any such problems.
>
> I suspect that most test errors in a pgi build are lurking Amber bugs.
>
> I've started a build with
> pgcc 17.3-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp haswell
>
> scott
>
> ps
> I'll start a build with Intel compilers without MKL.
>
>
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