HPL Installation on ubuntu 18.04.md

A simple Installation guidance for HPL(High Performance Linpack)

Related Website:

• HPL Installation Reference
• HPL Official Release
• HPL Tuning Basic Idea
• HPL Official Tuning Doc
• HPL Tuning Tool
• HPL Official Q&A

Installation Environment:

Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, 4.18.0-15-generic, x86_64, VirtualBox, 2GB Memory

0. Install dependency

sudo apt-get install -y libatlas-base-dev mpich libmpich-dev gfortran

1. Download HPL

cd ~
wget https://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/hpl-2.3.tar.gz
# unzip the .tar.gz file
mv hpl-2.3 hpl

2. Generate HPL template conffile

cd hpl/setup
sh make_generic
cp Make.UNKNOWN ../Make.linux
cd ../

3. Modify Make.linux according to the text below

ARCH         = linux
MPinc        = /usr/include/mpich/                      # dpkg --listfiles libmpich-dev | grep 'mpi\.h'
MPlib        = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpich.so    # dpkg --listfiles libmpich-dev | grep 'libmpich.so'
LAinc        = /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas      # dpkg --listfiles libatlas-base-dev | grep 'atlas_buildinfo\.h'

4. Compile HPL

make arch=linux -j $(nproc)

5. Modify HPL.dat and run the HPL

cd bin/linux

Replace HPL.dat by the text below:

HPLinpack benchmark input file
Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee
HPL.out      output file name (if any)
6            device out (6=stdout,7=stderr,file)
1            # of problems sizes (N)
5040         Ns
1            # of NBs
128          NBs
0            PMAP process mapping (0=Row-,1=Column-major)
1            # of process grids (P x Q)
1            Ps
1            Qs
16.0         threshold
1            # of panel fact
2            PFACTs (0=left, 1=Crout, 2=Right)
1            # of recursive stopping criterium
4            NBMINs (>= 1)
1            # of panels in recursion
2            NDIVs
1            # of recursive panel fact.
1            RFACTs (0=left, 1=Crout, 2=Right)
1            # of broadcast
1            BCASTs (0=1rg,1=1rM,2=2rg,3=2rM,4=Lng,5=LnM)
1            # of lookahead depth
1            DEPTHs (>=0)
2            SWAP (0=bin-exch,1=long,2=mix)
64           swapping threshold
0            L1 in (0=transposed,1=no-transposed) form
0            U  in (0=transposed,1=no-transposed) form
1            Equilibration (0=no,1=yes)
8            memory alignment in double (> 0)

Execute HPL program

./xhpl

Execute HPL program on multiple node

# change the value of Ps and Qs likes Ps=2, Qs=4
mpiexec -n 8 ./xhpl

The output will be something like:

================================================================================
HPLinpack 2.3  --  High-Performance Linpack benchmark  --   December 2, 2018
Written by A. Petitet and R. Clint Whaley,  Innovative Computing Laboratory, UTK
Modified by Piotr Luszczek, Innovative Computing Laboratory, UTK
Modified by Julien Langou, University of Colorado Denver
================================================================================

An explanation of the input/output parameters follows:
T/V    : Wall time / encoded variant.
N      : The order of the coefficient matrix A.
NB     : The partitioning blocking factor.
P      : The number of process rows.
Q      : The number of process columns.
Time   : Time in seconds to solve the linear system.
Gflops : Rate of execution for solving the linear system.

The following parameter values will be used:

N      :    5040 
NB     :     128 
PMAP   : Row-major process mapping
P      :       1 
Q      :       1 
PFACT  :   Right 
NBMIN  :       4 
NDIV   :       2 
RFACT  :   Crout 
BCAST  :  1ringM 
DEPTH  :       1 
SWAP   : Mix (threshold = 64)
L1     : transposed form
U      : transposed form
EQUIL  : yes
ALIGN  : 8 double precision words

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- The matrix A is randomly generated for each test.
- The following scaled residual check will be computed:
	  ||Ax-b||_oo / ( eps * ( || x ||_oo * || A ||_oo + || b ||_oo ) * N )
- The relative machine precision (eps) is taken to be               1.110223e-16
- Computational tests pass if scaled residuals are less than                16.0

================================================================================
T/V                N    NB     P     Q               Time                 Gflops
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WR11C2R4        5040   128     1     1               9.86             8.6634e+00
HPL_pdgesv() start time Tue Oct 15 15:19:01 2019

HPL_pdgesv() end time   Tue Oct 15 15:19:10 2019

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
||Ax-b||_oo/(eps*(||A||_oo*||x||_oo+||b||_oo)*N)=   2.33978261e-03 ...... PASSED
================================================================================

Finished      1 tests with the following results:
	          1 tests completed and passed residual checks,
	          0 tests completed and failed residual checks,
	          0 tests skipped because of illegal input values.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

End of Tests.
================================================================================

I tried to follow your steps, but I still get no binary

I'm on Ubuntu 23.10 and hpl-2.3

These are my libs locations:

elect@elect-u9311x:~$ dpkg --listfiles libmpich-dev | grep 'mpi\.h'
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/mpich/mpi.h
elect@elect-u9311x:~$ dpkg --listfiles libmpich-dev | grep 'libmpich.so'
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpich.so
elect@elect-u9311x:~$ dpkg --listfiles libatlas-base-dev | grep 'atlas_buildinfo\.h'
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/atlas_buildinfo.h

And this is my make arch=linux -j $(nproc)) output