[Mckernel-users 22] Re: Question about installation of mckernel-1.2.0

[Balazs Gerofi]

Hello Minwoo,

sorry, the tarball I sent contains only the source, the procedure is the
same as described in the previous version. The new one should work fine on
CentOS 7.3 as well.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:59 AM, 안민우 <mwahn402 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I successed to run "config_and_build_smp_x86.sh" script on ${TOP}
> directory and run mcreboot.sh script successfully(Where is user "root" and
> "postpeta"? How can I log in?).
>

If you are using your own machine then there is probably no postpeta user,
you can just use your own user!


> And before I run benchmarks, I plan to try some given simple tutorials.
> There are simple C codes and Makefile. But there are some questions.
>
> 1. Why McKernel use icc instead of gcc compiler?
>
2. Is icc stands for Intel C Compiler? Can I use gcc compiler instead of
> icc?
> 3. If not, how can I download icc?
>

Yes, icc is the Intel compiler, but it's fine to use gcc.
Have you managed to run some simple applications?

Balazs



> 2017-05-01 14:42 GMT+09:00 안민우 <mwahn402 at gmail.com>:
>
>> (Was my email sended well? If yes, sorry for sending twice and please
>> read this email because my new question is added.)
>>
>> Hello Balazs,
>>
>> I'm plan to run benchmarks(NAS parallel benchmarks) for measuring TLB
>> miss(or hit) ratio. I didn't decided specific benchmark yet. Any suggestion?
>>
>> Thank you for URL! I successfully downloaded ihk+mckernel.tgz file.
>>
>> I have more questions.
>>
>> 1. As I see in README file at ${TOP}/ihk/REAME, it says "For how to
>> install, see README.txt on the top directory of the distribution."
>>
>> Where is "top directory"?
>> Is it "ihk+mckernel/" ? There is no README.txt file.
>>
>> Or is "top directory" is ${TOP} directory of "mckernel-1.2.0"? There is
>> README.txt file.
>>
>>
>> 2. I newly downloaded CentOS 7.2 on my machine. And I tried to download
>> kernel-devel package by "sudo yum install kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64"
>> command(3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 is obtained by 'uname -r').
>>
>> And it says "No package kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 available".
>> Looks like it failed to find kernel-devel from mirrors since CentOS 7.2 is
>> old version. Is there any way to fix my problem?
>>
>> 3. I read bash script named "config_and_build_smp_x86.sh". If I extracted
>> ihk+mckernel.tgz under /home/hpc/ , what should be src_base_dir,
>> build_base_dir, and install_base_dir?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Minwoo
>>
>> 2017-04-30 22:51 GMT+09:00 안민우 <mwahn402 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hello Balazs,
>>>
>>> I'm plan to run benchmarks(NAS parallel benchmarks) for measuring TLB
>>> miss(or hit) ratio. I didn't decided specific benchmark yet. Any suggestion?
>>>
>>> Thank you for URL! I successfully downloaded ihk+mckernel.tgz file.
>>>
>>> I have more questions.
>>>
>>> 1. As I see in README file at ${TOP}/ihk/REAME, it says "For how to
>>> install, see README.txt on the top directory of the distribution."
>>>
>>> Where is "top directory"?
>>> Is it "ihk+mckernel/" ? There is no README.txt file.
>>>
>>> Or is "top directory" is ${TOP} directory of "mckernel-1.2.0"? There is
>>> README.txt file.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. I newly downloaded CentOS 7.2 on my machine. And I tried to download
>>> kernel-devel package by "sudo yum install kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64"
>>> command(3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 is obtained by 'uname -r').
>>>
>>> And it says "No package kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 available".
>>> Looks like it failed to find kernel-devel from mirrors since CentOS 7.2 is
>>> old version. Is there any way to fix my problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Minwoo
>>>
>>> 2017-04-30 0:47 GMT+09:00 Balazs Gerofi <bgerofi at riken.jp>:
>>>
>>>> Hello Minwoo,
>>>>
>>>> sorry for the delay and thanks for your interest!
>>>> The version you are using is slightly outdated, I have put online a
>>>> snapshot of the latest version.
>>>>
>>>> Please use this URL: http://www.sys.aics.riken.jp/M
>>>> embers/bgerofi/ihk+mckernel.tgz
>>>>
>>>> What is that you are trying to run by the way?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Balazs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:55 PM, 안민우 <mwahn402 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm planning to run some benchmarks on McKernel.
>>>>>
>>>>> But, I have some problems at installation of "mckernel-1.2.0"
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to install mckernel-1.2.0 at machine with CentOS 7.x minimal
>>>>> running on Intel Xeon by following README.txt.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Install kernel-devel-'uname -r'
>>>>> 2. check /usr/src/kernels/'uname -r' exist
>>>>> 3. check /lib/modules/'uname -r'/build links to
>>>>> 'usr/src/kernels/'uname -r'
>>>>> 4. change permission of /boot/System.map-'name -r'
>>>>> 5. configure at src/ihk and src/mckernel
>>>>> 6. make and make install at src/ihk and src/mckernel
>>>>> 7. run script install/sbin/mcreboot.sh
>>>>>
>>>>> I followed step 1~6 without any problem, but when I run
>>>>> ${top}/install/sbin/mcreboot.sh, it causes error with messages below.
>>>>>
>>>>> "insmod: ERROR: could not load module /home/hpc/mckernel-1.2.0/install/kmod/mcoverlay.ko:
>>>>> No such file or directory"
>>>>> "error: inserting mcoverlay.ko"
>>>>>
>>>>> Under install/kmod directory, there are ihk.ko, ihk-smp-x86.ko, and
>>>>> mcctrl.ko. There is no mcoverlay.ko
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any steps I didn't followed? Or version of the CentOS is
>>>>> problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Kernel version obtained by "$uname -r" is 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you to read my email,
>>>>> Minwoo Ahn
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>
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