<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,<br></div>I've just spent several hours trying to compile elpa 2016 on BlueGENE (and I did not manage...). I'm pretty skeptical about the ability of the average user to compile it at all on anything else than intel compiler/mpi/mkl, but this is a common problem, hence I'm not against the change in principle.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 September 2016 at 00:01, Filippo SPIGA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:filippo.spiga@quantum-espresso.org" target="_blank">filippo.spiga@quantum-espresso.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear everyone,<br>
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I did several tests in the past days to verify results match between SCALAPACK, ELPA 2015, ELPA 2016 and the "custom diagonalization". I generated a lot of outputs, I did not compare every single one of them but all of those I have been inspected are all good and consistent.<br>
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Because the current ELPA library structure, self-detect the ELPA version using autoconf is quite complex and I cannot guardantee it works every time on every machine. Things need to be simplified a bit on QE side (and as consequence rely more on the ability of the user to compile a library for his/her own environment).<br>
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Instead of support both "2015" API and "2016" API, I suggest to support via configure only the 2016 version. I propose the following changes in the configure:<br>
- deprecate generic "--with-elpa"<br>
- add "--with-elpa-lib=<path>" which point to the directory of the ELPA library<br>
- add "--with-elpa-include=<path>" which point to the directory of the ELPA Fortran module<br>
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ELPA is enabled ("__ELPA_2016" in DFLAGS) iff both "--with-elpa-lib=<path>" (".so" or ".a" library present in <path>) and "--with-elpa-include=<path>" ("elpa1.mod" present in <path>) are specified. If someone wants to use the "2015" API then it is always possible to edit manually <a href="http://make.in" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">make.in</a> ("__ELPA_2016" will continue to exhist in the code).<br>
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I am planning to commit changes around Wed or Thu unless there are particular objections.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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On Sep 11, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Filippo SPIGA <<a href="mailto:filippo.spiga@quantum-espresso.org">filippo.spiga@quantum-<wbr>espresso.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
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> ELPA (Eigenvalue SoLvers for Petaflop-Applications) is a parallel eigen-solver library working with QE and provided natively via a self-hosted package under "archive/". This package contains a old version of ELPA. The latest official ELPA release available on the web adopts different routine API (small changes but enought to require a change in the code).<br>
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> After some changes in the code, we now support two versions: ELPA 2015.11.001 (__ELPA_2015) and ELPA 2016.05.003 (__ELPA_2016). Again, these two versions have different routine API and these discrepancies force us to maintain two API in the code. It is ugly but it is nothing we can do about.<br>
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> The old ELPA in the code will be deprecated by v6.0 is going to be released. I am working on a configure step that transparently detects ELPA 2015 versus ELPA 2016. If I fails, I will work around a mechanism that allows to pass to the configure both the location of the shared library and the location of the Fortran modules associated with it.<br>
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> Stay tuned<br>
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> Cheers<br>
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--<br>
Filippo SPIGA ~ Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation ~ <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.<wbr>org</a><br>
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