Hi again SIMC users -
This is an update on compiling SIMC using the Absoft compiler. jlabl1
will be upgraded from RHEL3 to RHEL5 on October 7, and the Absoft
compiler will no longer be available on that machine. However, ifarml2
(a RHEL3 machine) has been re-enabled for limited login (not for general
access). If you know you will need to compile SIMC, please send a note
to the JLab computing helpdesk requesting that your login to ifarml2 be
enabled for this purpose.
As noted before, you will only need to compile SIMC on a RHEL3 machine -
once compiled you should be able to run on any of the JLab Fedora or
RHEL5 machines.
Regards,
Dave
Dave Gaskell wrote:
>
> Hi SIMC users -
>
> As many of you may have noticed, all scientific computing (batch farms
> as well as interactive farm nodes) have migrated to the Fedora
> operating system. Unfortunately, the Absoft fortran compiler presently
> used to compile SIMC on the JLab linux machines is not available on
> the Fedora nodes.
>
> Work is under way to migrate SIMC to use the gfortran compiler
> available on the Fedora machines, but this work is not yet complete.
> However, I recognize that a lot of you may be gearing up to work on
> proposals for the next PAC and likely need to have SIMC available.
>
> At present there is an easy work-around. The Absoft compiler is still
> available on jlabl1 (a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 machine) and
> fortunately, when compiled on RHEL3, SIMC seems to run just fine on
> Fedora (I have done a few tests to make sure the output is unchanged).
> So until SIMC has been fully ported to gfortran, make sure your code
> is either in your CUE home directory or on one of the group disks
> (since jlabl1 cannot see the work disks), compile your version of SIMC
> on jlabl1, then run on either the batch farm or ifarml* machine of
> your choice.
>
> Let me know if you have any problems or questions. When work is
> complete on the porting of SIMC to gfortran, I'll send out an update.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
>
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