From: Jim Phillips (jim_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed May 13 2009 - 11:58:30 CDT
This is incorrect. All versions of Charm++ support +idlepoll, and it is
needed by CUDA-enabled NAMD to ensure that the GPU is polled periodically.
This code was broken for CUDA builds shortly before the 2.7b1 release and
fixed shortly afterwards. Please try the nightly build source code.
-Jim
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Gengbin Zheng wrote:
>
> That is a bug in NAMD. idelpoll is only defined in net version of charm++,
> not the mpi-linux-x86_64 version that you are compiling NAMD against.
> That code should be changed to:
>
> #if defined(NAMD_CUDA) && CMK_NET_VERSION
> if ( ! idlepoll ) {
> NAMD_die("Please add +idlepoll to command line for proper performance.");
> }
> #endif
>
>
> Gengbin
>
>
> Lev Lafayette wrote:
>> Hello NAMDers,
>>
>> I have just installed NAMD2.7b with cuda on our cluster. However during the
>> install process make failed because idlepoll was not defined in
>> src/BackEnd.C (line 135)
>>
>> The install is with openmpi/1.3.2-intel and intel/11.0 compilers.
>>
>> The configure command was ./config Linux-x86_64-icc --charm-arch
>> mpi-linux-x86_64 --with-cuda
>>
>> An attempt to make however results with:
>>
>> src/BackEnd.C(135): error: identifier "idlepoll" is undefined.
>>
>> As a dirty hack I've commented out the relevant lines in src/BackEnd.C
>>
>>
>> //#ifdef NAMD_CUDA
>> // if ( ! idlepoll ) {
>> // NAMD_die("Please add +idlepoll to command line for proper
>> performance.");
>> // }
>> //#endif
>>
>> . and it seems to make just fine after this and test jobs work.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
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