Sysadmin:Software:OpenMPI

About OpenMPI here.

Installation

1) Retrieve the tar file from the openmpi website (here is for 1.10.1 https://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.10/). Ff you right click on the tar file you would like and open up the file in a separate window you will be able to retrieve the address of the file. Now you can use wget or curl with the address to retrieve the file and place it on the machine. Store this file in /cluster/admin-files/ so it can easily be accessed later.

2) Copy the file to the directory you would like to install it from, keep it off of /cluster/* to save time in configuration.

3) Make new directory in mounts/*machinename*/software/*software name*/ with the version name

4) Unzip the tar file with gunzip -c "tar file name" | tar xf - , (instruction are explained on the openmpi website here https://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building#easy-build)

5) cd into the file and configure, setting the prefix equal to /*machinename*/software/*software name*/version, most likely you will have many configuration options that you will want to have, use ./configure -help to determine what other configuration options you need, such for mellanox or cuda. now run the configuration command.

6) Now use the command "make all install"

7) Now go into /mounts/*machine name*/software/Modules/modulesfiles/openmpi and create a new file using vim. Copy a previous version of the file into this new file you have created and change the version name in the file.