[Beowulf] Julia on POWER9?

[Joe Landman]

1.5.x is a definite speed improvement over the 1.4.x.  That said, there 
is some weirdness I am running into with the whole CUDA vs CuArrays and 
other dependencies in other modules (DiffEqGPU).


On 10/16/20 10:18 AM, Scott Atchley wrote:
>
> % hostname -f
>
> login1.summit.olcf.ornl.gov <http://login1.summit.olcf.ornl.gov>
>
>
> % module avail |& grep julia
>
> forge/19.0.4             ibm-wml-ce/1.6.1-1 *julia*/1.4.2           
> (E)    ppt/2.4.0-beta2               (D) vampir/9.5.0       (D)
>
> [*atchley*@*login1*]*~ *% module avail julia
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------ 
> /sw/summit/modulefiles/core 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> julia/1.4.2 (*E*)
>
>
> Where:
>
> *E*: Experimental
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 5:02 PM Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf 
> <beowulf at beowulf.org <mailto:beowulf at beowulf.org>> wrote:
>
>     So while you've all been discussing Julia, etc., I've been trying to
>     build and get it running on POWER9 for a cluster of AC922 nodes
>     (same as
>     Summit, but with 4 GPUs per node). After doing a combination of
>     Google
>     searching and soul-searching, I was able to get a functional
>     version of
>     Julia to build for POWER9. However, I'm not 100% sure my build is
>     fully
>     functional, as when I did 'make testall' some of the tests failed.
>
>     Is there anyone on this list using or supporting the latest
>     version of
>     Julia, 1.5.2, on POWER9? If so, I'd like to compare notes. I imagine
>     someone from OLCF is on this list.
>
>     Based on my Internet searching, as of August 2019 Julia was being
>     used
>     on Summit on thousands of cores, but I've also seen posts from the
>     Julia
>     devs saying they can't support the POWER architecture anymore because
>     they no longer have access to POWER hardware. Most of this
>     information
>     comes from the Julia GitHub or Julia Discourse conversations.
>
>     -- 
>     Prentice
>
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