Officially, the Intel Cluster Tools support RPM-based installs only. For a full list of supported OSes, check out our compatibility matrix.

If you’d still like to use the tools on Debian and Ubuntu systems, the following steps can help you in, at least, installing the tools. Note that the process below still requires that a valid license for the desired Cluster Tool is present on the machine.

1. Download the latest version of the Intel® MPI Library for Linux* from the Intel® Registration Center.


2. Untar the package and go down into the newly created directory

   $ tar –xzf l_mpi_p_3.2.1.009.tgz
   $ cd l_mpi_p_3.2.1.009/



3. Create a new directory and extract the RPM files using the provided install.sh script. Note that you’d need a valid license to do so.

   $ mkdir rpms
   
   $ ./install.sh --extract=./rpms
   Extracting components...
   Extracting files... ################################################ [100%]
   Product's rpm and EULA have been extracted in ./rpms
   Please carefully read EULA before using the product
   
   $ ls –l
   

   intel-mpi-em64t-3.2.1p-009.x86_64.rpm	# SDK for the Intel MPI Library for Linux*
   intel-mpi-rt-em64t-3.2.1p-009.x86_64.rpm	# Runtime component of the Intel MPI Library
   mpiEULA.txt	# End-User License Agreement for the Intel MPI Library. # Read before using.
   redist.txt	# List of Intel MPI Library files whose redistribution is allowed



4. Convert the RPM files into DEB files, to be installed on your Debian-based system using the alien utility

   $ which alien
   /usr/bin/alien
   
   $ alien intel-mpi-em64t-3.2.1p-009.x86_64.rpm
   intel-mpi-em64t_3.2.1p-10_amd64.deb generated

   Here note that converting the SDK package for the Intel MPI Library is enough, as the runtime libraries are already contained within.


5. Now that you have the .deb file generated, install using your preferred method. For example, this is how it’s done using the dpkg utility

   # This will use the default /opt/intel installation directory
   $ dpkg --install intel-mpi-em64t_3.2.1p-10_amd64.deb



6. Done! You are now free to enjoy the Intel MPI Library at your leisure.



Even though this example highlighted the Debian-based installation of the Intel MPI Library, the same technique can be applied to the Intel® Cluster Toolkit for Linux*, Intel® Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition for Linux*, and the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector for Linux*.

When I instrument the application test.cpp with the Intel® MPI Library compilation driver mpiicpc and with the Intel® Trace Collector using the command line (listed below) for Itanium®-based systems for Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel® Xeon®, and Intel® 64-based architectures, I do not produce a trace file.

mpiicpc test.cpp -g -L${VT_ROOT}/lib -lVT -lvtunwind -ldwarf -lelf -lpthread -lm
-o testcpp_inst

or with the command:

mpiicpc test.cpp -g -L${VT_ROOT}/lib -lVT -ldwarf -lelf -lpthread -lm
-o testcpp_inst

Solution

When compiling the C++ application test.cpp with the Intel® C/C++ compiler (mpiicpc) and with Intel® Trace Collector requires an additional library called -lmpiic. The rule for this is that if one uses the MPI-2 C++ application programming interfaces (APIs) with the Intel® C/C++ compilers, then Intel® Trace Collector cannot intercept the MPI calls as they are written. They have to be mapped to C function calls first, with the help of an MPI implementation-specific wrapper library, which with respect to the command-line, has to be placed in front of the Intel® Trace Collector library. The name of that wrapper library for the mpiicpc compilation driver is -lmpiic. Thus, for Itanium®-base systems the command line should be:

mpiicpc test.cpp -g -lmpiic -L${VT_ROOT}/lib -lVT -lvtunwind -ldwarf -lelf -lpthread -lm
-o testcpp_inst

and for Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel® Xeon®, and Intel® 64-based architectures the compilation protocol should be:

mpiicpc test.cpp -g -lmpiic -L${VT_ROOT}/lib -lVT -ldwarf -lelf -lpthread -lm
-o testcpp_inst

• Release Notes for Intel® MPI Library
• Release Notes for Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector
• Release Notes for Intel® Math Kernel Library
• Release Notes for Intel® Cluster Toolkit and Intel® Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition

Operating System:

• Intercepts and analyzes MPI calls as the application runs
• Reports errors to console as they are detected
• Can trigger debugger breakpoints for in-place analysis
• Works with Intel® MPI Library 2.x and 3.x
• Over 20 distinct MPI programming and runtime errors are detected

This paper presents this new MPI correctness checking feature of the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector by describing its design, implementation and performance. As a use case, an analysis of the HPCC benchmark is presented, which contains some violations of the MPI standard in the 1.0.0 release.

	MPI Correctness Checking with the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector [PDF]
	File Name: lcihpcccorrectness.pdf Size: 244,686 bytes Date: June 2007

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