Hello Firedrake people. The IT staff here at LSU are having some trouble installing firedrake on our clusters. I’m forwarding the email below detailing those difficulties for your information. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. -Shawn From: LONI Systems Support [mailto:sys-help@loni.org] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:58 AM To: Shawn W Walker <walker@lsu.edu> Subject: Re: [Sys-help#20200716106172] FW: firedrake on LSU HPC? Hi Shawn, Another update: 1. Native installation wasn't successful, yet. The installation script states "Any required system packages are installed using brew (MacOS) or apt (Ubuntu and similar Linux systems). On a Linux system without apt, the installation will fail if a dependency is not found." Since we run Redhat, taking care of all dependencies will take some time. 2. I was able to build a working container image on a box running Fedora, but the same image fails on the cluster with the issue reported here: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/issues/1712<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ffiredrakeproject%2Ffiredrake%2Fissues%2F1712&data=02%7C01%7Cwalker%40lsu.edu%7C6777f1ac987b48444c8c08d82f299b80%7C2d4dad3f50ae47d983a09ae2b1f466f8%7C0%7C0%7C637311203039221991&sdata=oYV10mLvTyrSia6zLIuD%2Ff3INoQc9gvvjNbkOUSIzlE%3D&reserved=0> It's supposed to be fixed last month, but I'm still getting it on the cluster. 3. Overall it's not very friendly with clusters. For one, it's specifically geared towards Ubuntu, but I don't think there are many clusters running Ubuntu. The difficulties are summarized in the issue report here: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/issues/1779<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ffiredrakeproject%2Ffiredrake%2Fissues%2F1779&data=02%7C01%7Cwalker%40lsu.edu%7C6777f1ac987b48444c8c08d82f299b80%7C2d4dad3f50ae47d983a09ae2b1f466f8%7C0%7C0%7C637311203039221991&sdata=NVPotmoXAi9A4INa9CjA94b69%2B%2FokFYNJZryyzbVgg8%3D&reserved=0> Cheers, Le -- LONI/LSU HPC Support staff sys-help@loni.org<mailto:sys-help@loni.org> Help Line: +1 (225) 578-0900 http://www.loni.org/ -- Helpful Documentation: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/docs/faq/index.php http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/users/help.php http://hpc.loni.org/ 07/20/2020 18:35 - Shawn W Walker wrote: Thanks Le. -Shawn From: LONI Systems Support [mailto:sys-help@loni.org] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 4:50 PM To: Shawn W Walker <walker@lsu.edu<mailto:walker@lsu.edu>> Subject: Re: [Sys-help#20200716106172] FW: firedrake on LSU HPC? Hi Shawn, Just a quick update: I was able to build a container for it, but ran into errors running the example on their website, most likely due to permission issues in the container as well as how MPI is set up. I may need to install it from source. I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Cheers, Le -- LONI/LSU HPC Support staff sys-help@loni.org<mailto:sys-help@loni.org> Help Line: +1 (225) 578-0900 http://www.loni.org/ -- Helpful Documentation: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/docs/faq/index.php http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/users/help.php http://hpc.loni.org/ 07/16/2020 15:42 - LONI Systems Support wrote: Hi Shawn, Let me take a look and get back to you. Cheers, Le -- LONI/LSU HPC Support staff sys-help@loni.org<mailto:sys-help@loni.org> Help Line: +1 (225) 578-0900 http://www.loni.org/ -- Helpful Documentation: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/docs/faq/index.php http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/users/help.php http://hpc.loni.org/ 07/16/2020 15:37 - Shawn W Walker wrote: Hello. I would like to get Firedrake up and running on the HPC system. Can you help? -Shawn From: Le Yan Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:28 PM To: Shawn W Walker <walker@lsu.edu<mailto:walker@lsu.edu>> Subject: Re: firedrake on LSU HPC? Hi Shawn, I just took a look at it and it seems to have Docker images available, so we could try to create a Singularity container image. I'll get back to you. Could you please forward the email to sys-help@loni.org<mailto:sys-help@loni.org> so we will have a record? And I assume either SuperMIC or Super Mike 2 should be fine, right? Cheers, Le ----------------------------------------- Le Yan, PhD Assistant Director High Performance Computing Information Technology Services Louisiana State University 343 Frey Computing Services Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 office 225-578-7524 | fax 225-578-6400 lsu.edu<http://www.lsu.edu/> | hpc.lsu.edu<http://hpc.lsu.edu/> ________________________________ From: Shawn W Walker <walker@lsu.edu<mailto:walker@lsu.edu>> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:16 PM To: Le Yan <lyan1@lsu.edu<mailto:lyan1@lsu.edu>> Subject: firedrake on LSU HPC? Hello Le. Do you know if this software can be “easily” installed on the HPC system: https://www.firedrakeproject.org/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.firedrakeproject.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cwalker%40lsu.edu%7C6777f1ac987b48444c8c08d82f299b80%7C2d4dad3f50ae47d983a09ae2b1f466f8%7C0%7C0%7C637311203039231949&sdata=7fqAzpd%2FZoteYeC4bI%2FD8e03%2F4epR4hyFr0sqTNrs80%3D&reserved=0> It is similar to FEniCS. The main issue is whether PETSC is configured properly for Firedrake. -Shawn