InstallingICS
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The following steps are needed to install the Intel Cluster Studio (or Parallel Studio XE) with the aim to get the Intel toolchain (compilers, MPI, MKL):
- Identify the version of the toolchain (e.g. 2018a) and the corresponding Intel version (e.g. 2018.1.163)
- Select the version of GCCcore you want to use, e.g 6.4.0. Stay close to the GCC version the eb-files for Intel Compilers request (unless you have good reasons to change).
- Copy the eb-files for this version to a directory in InstallationPackages/<GCCver>/TOOLCHAINS/intel. You need eb-files for icc and ifort (compilers), iccifort (compiler toolchain), impi (MPI) and iimpi (toolchain), imkl (numlib) and the final toolchain intel-<version>
- Download the sources from Intel Developer page (see License Page), download four individual files for C/C++ and Fortran compilers, MPI and MKL. Names of the files should match the file names in the eb-files.
- modifications of the eb-files so that the modules get short intuitive names, goal is that the following modules are installed (example for version 2018a)
- icc/2018a
- ifort/2018a
- iccifort/2018a
- impi/2018a-iccifort-2018a
- iimpi/2018a
- imkl/2018a-iimpi-2018a
- intel/2018a
- for the compilers you need to modify the version, make sure that the correct file is found.
- In addition a change to the easyblocks 'icc.py' and 'ifor.py' was needed that deals with the different version number.
- In EB 3.5.3 and 3.8.1 the change is done
- for 3.8.1 in icc.py (two changes below are in lines 76 and 206, in 3.5.3 the first change is closer to the second)
--- self.comp_libs_subdir = os.path.join('compilers_and_libraries_%s' % self.version.split('a')[0], 'linux')
+++ self.comp_libs_subdir = os.path.join('compilers_and_libraries_%s' % self.version.split('a')[0], 'linux')
--- self.debuggerpath = 'debugger_%s' % self.version.split('.')[0]
+++ self.debuggerpath = 'debugger_%s' % self.version.split('.')[0].split('a')[0]
