Andrew, Thanks for the advice - I'm going to go with the 16.04 option - then I won't have to worry about parallel in the future (unless it's 5 years down the line...). Owen ________________________________________ From: firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] on behalf of Andrew McRae [andrew.mcrae@physics.ox.ac.uk] Sent: 20 March 2018 14:57 To: firedrake@imperial.ac.uk Subject: Re: [firedrake] Firedrake test script not advancing Owen, I'm guessing you don't care about running in parallel, at least not immediately, so don't let this stop you from getting started. If it really bugs you, make a 16.04 virtual machine instead. This is the most recent LTS (long term support) Ubuntu release, and gets maintenance updates for 5 years from April 2016, by which time you'll have graduated. Hopefully ;) On the other hand, 17.10 only gets updates for 9 months from October 2017. (I'm assuming you're running a VM just for Firedrake, not for anything else you do) Andrew On 19 March 2018 at 18:02, Lawrence Mitchell <lawrence.mitchell@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:lawrence.mitchell@imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:
On 19 Mar 2018, at 17:52, Ham, David A <david.ham@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:david.ham@imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:
I’m in favour of dumping OpenMPI. It also causes us parallel test issues cf https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/issues/1199
Are there any downsides with going to mpich?
All the ubuntu packages that link against MPI are built against OpenMPI. We need to be very careful that when we install on such systems that we don't accidentally end up getting the wrong one. Lawrence _______________________________________________ firedrake mailing list firedrake@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:firedrake@imperial.ac.uk> https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/firedrake