On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Luke Palmer wrote:
> I run a mid-sized cluster running RedHat 9. We qualify for the
> unsupported versions of the Intel compilers, so I will likely be
> installing them. Because of the way our cluster is maintained, it's very
> conveinent for me to install using RPMs- however, I see that the rpm
> distributions of LAM-MPI were built with the default GNU compilers.
> Would there be an advantage to downloading source and building LAM-MPI
> using the intel compilers, or is it equivalent to just use the RPM but
> compile our applications with the intel compilers?
You'll probably want to download the source and compile with the Intel
compilers. Not to worry; it's pretty simple. See the "For the Impatient"
chapter in the Installation Guide ("chapter" is somewhat of a misnomer;
it's only a page).
If nothing else, you'll prevent potential linkage problems with Fortran
and C++.
If you get late builds of icc version 7.1, be sure to read the following
thread (the solution is presented in the last post, from me):
http://www.lam-mpi.org/MailArchives/lam/msg06452.php
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