IBM Blue Gene/L

A collection of information on how to configure and tau on IMB Blue Gene/L.

Configuring PDT

Configure pdt with the compiliers on the head node (ie. xlC).

% configure -XLC -exec-prefix=bgl
% make clean install

To preseve the xlC as pdt's compilier configure tau with:

% ./configure -pdt_c++=xlC -mpi -arch=bgl -pdt=<dir>
% make clean install

creates a stub makefile in

<taudir>/bgl/lib/Makefile.tau-mpi-pdt

. To build the tools for the front-end, please use:

% ./configure -pdt_c++=xlC -pdt=<dir> -vtf=<dir>
% make clean install

Creates front-end tools (such as paraprof, pprof) in

<taudir>/ppc64/bin

directory.