[CP2K:8330] Problem with compilation with multi-threading + mkl + fftw3 (and gnu compiler)

Daniele Fontanari danielef... at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 10:33:20 UTC 2016


Thanks,
I have to check, but I think it is a matter of library ordering

Daniele

Il giorno venerdì 4 novembre 2016 11:19:04 UTC+1, IBethune ha scritto:
>
> Hi Daniele, 
>
> The problem here lies in fact that Intel only ship an mkl_version.h header 
> with the MKL version using intel’s proprietary preprocessor syntax.  We 
> need this in order to check we have an MKL version where the multi-threaded 
> FFT works correctly (older than 11.1.0 gave wrong results).  However, with 
> if compiling with gfortran and using MKL, we can’t make this check so have 
> to fail safe with the error message you found. 
>
> You should be able to workaround this by building FFTW3 with threading 
> enabled.  What I think you missed is that you need to link the fftw3_omp 
> library before the MKL stuff in your LIBS variable, so that the genuine 
> FFTW code gets linked, rather than the MKL-FFTW interface.  You should also 
> be able to continue using threaded MKL ( libmkl_gnu_thread.a) for other 
> parts of MKL (LAPACK etc.) 
>
> So try putting -lfftw3 -lfftw3_omp before the MKL libs and rebuild. 
>
> Cheers 
>
> - Iain 
>
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> > On 1 Nov 2016, at 18:39, Daniele Fontanari <danie... at gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> > Small update: 
> > 
> > Looking at old threads I tried to modify the arch file (be careful, last 
> line begin with a tab, not several spaces): 
> > 
> > ## Begin test.ssmp ## 
> > MKLROOT = /opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2016.0.109/linux/mkl 
> > MKLLIB = $(MKLROOT)/lib/intel64 
> > FFTW3ROOT = 
> $(HOME)/cp2k_build/src/fftw3_vanilla/fftw-3.3.5/installazione 
> > 
> > CC = gcc 
> > CPP = 
> > FC = mpif90 
> > LD = mpif90 
> > AR = ar -r 
> > ALLFLAGS = -D__MKL -D__FFTW3 -O2 -I$(MKLROOT)/include 
> -I$(FFTW3ROOT)/include 
> > FCFLAGS = $(ALLFLAGS) -ffree-form -fopenmp 
> > FCFLAGS2 = $(ALLFLAGS) -ffree-form 
> > CFLAGS = $(ALLFLAGS) -fopenmp 
> > LDFLAGS = -L$(FFTW3ROOT)/lib -fopenmp 
> > LIBS = -Wl,--start-group $(MKLLIB)/libmkl_gf_lp64.a 
> $(MKLLIB)/libmkl_sequential.a $(MKLLIB)/libmkl_core.a -Wl,--end-group 
> -lpthread -lm -ldl -lstdc++ -lfftw3 
> > 
> > fftw3_lib.o: pw/fft/fftw3_lib.F 
> >                  $(FC) -c $(FCFLAGS2) 
> $<dfontanari at orval02:~/cp2k/cp2k/makefiles$ 
> > ## End test.ssmp ## 
> > 
> > and regtest is working. Am I losing a lot of performance with this 
> workaround (fftw3 not multithreaded)? Moreover It was suggested to use 
> libmkl_sequential.a instead of libmkl_gnu_thread.a care to comment on this? 
> > 
> > However I'd appreciate is someone can point out possible reasons for my 
> previous error 
> > 
> > Thanks! 
> > 
> > Daniele 
> > 
> > 
> > Il giorno martedì 1 novembre 2016 18:31:18 UTC+1, Daniele Fontanari ha 
> scritto: 
> > Hello everyone 
> > 
> > I have now a cp2k version which is running smoothly if I compile the 
> *opt versions, however I have problems (in term of runtime failures) with 
> the *smp version. 
> > 
> > I can access the linear algebra routines through a MKL library, which 
> provide also a wrapper for FFTW3 (but I DON'T have access to the intel 
> compilers, I use the GNU ones) 
> > The runtime error for the smp version is the following: 
> > 
> > STOP Intel's FFTW3 interface to MKL is not thread-safe prior to MKL 
> 11.1.0!  Please rebuild CP2K, linking against FFTW 3 from www.fftw.org or 
> a newer version of MKL. Now exiting... 
> > 
> > This is quite strange since my version of MKL should be newer than 
> 11.1.0 (I am not the sysadmin, the intel folder is referred as 
> "2016.0.109", a quick search suggests that the 11.3 version should be 
> installed, but I'd like to know a way to check this for sure) 
> > 
> > However if I try to install the "vanilla" version of fftw3 and try to 
> install with the configure option "--enable-openmp" and thus linking the 
> libraries "libfftw3.a" and "libfftw3_omp.a" I get the same error. 
> > the arch file I am using is the following: 
> > (the fftw libraries are in $(FFTW3ROOT)/lib ) 
> > 
> > 
> > ## Begin test.ssmp ## 
> > MKLROOT    = /opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2016.0.109/linux/mkl 
> > MKLLIB     = $(MKLROOT)/lib/intel64 
> > FFTW3ROOT  = 
> $(HOME)/cp2k_build/src/fftw3_vanilla/fftw-3.3.5/installazione 
> > 
> > CC         = gcc 
> > CPP        = 
> > FC         = mpif90 
> > LD         = mpif90 
> > AR         = ar -r 
> > ALLFLAGS   = -D__MKL -D__FFTW3 -O2 -fopenmp -I$(MKLROOT)/include 
> -I$(FFTW3ROOT)/include 
> > FCFLAGS    = $(ALLFLAGS) -ffree-form 
> > CFLAGS     = $(ALLFLAGS) 
> > LDFLAGS    = -L$(FFTW3ROOT)/lib -fopenmp 
> > LIBS       = -Wl,--start-group $(MKLLIB)/libmkl_gf_lp64.a 
> $(MKLLIB)/libmkl_gnu_thread.a $(MKLLIB)/libmkl_core.a -Wl,--end-group 
> -lpthread -lm -ldl -lstdc++ -lfftw3 -lfftw3_omp 
> > ## End test.ssmp ## 
> > 
> > 
> > Just recently I noticed that the installation wiki on the website might 
> be saying that if I compile with GNU+MKL I cannot have openmp? Is this the 
> case? 
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > Daniele 
> > 
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