Arm Performance Libraries
Starting with Amazon ParallelCluster version 2.10.1, Arm Performance Libraries are available on the
Amazon ParallelCluster AMIs for alinux2
, centos8
, ubuntu1804
, and
ubuntu2004
values for the base_os setting. The Arm Performance
Libraries provides optimized standard core math libraries for high-performance computing applications on Arm
processors. To use Arm Performance Libraries, you must acknowledge and accept the terms of the Arm
Performance Libraries (free version) - End User License Agreement
To enable Arm Performance Libraries, you must first load the Arm Performance Libraries module.
Armpl-21.0.0
needs GCC-9.3 as a requirement, when you load the armpl/21.0.0
module, the
gcc/9.3
module will also be loaded. The exact name of the module changes with every update. To see which
modules are available, run module avail
. Then, you need to install the latest version by using
module load armpl
.The output is as follows.
$
module avail
------------------------------- /usr/share/Modules/modulefiles -------------------------------- armpl/21.0.0 dot libfabric-aws/1.11.1amzn1.0 module-git module-info modules null openmpi/4.1.0 use.own
To load a module, run module load modulename
. You can add this to the script
used to run mpirun
.
$
module load armpl
Use of the free of charge version of Arm Performance Libraries is subject to the terms and conditions of the Arm Performance Libraries (free version) - End User License Agreement (EULA). A copy of the EULA can be found in the '/opt/arm/armpl/21.0.0/arm-performance-libraries_21.0_gcc-9.3/license_terms' folder
To see which modules are loaded, run module list
.
$
module list
Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) /opt/arm/armpl/21.0.0/modulefiles/armpl/gcc-9.3 2) /opt/arm/armpl/21.0.0/modulefiles/armpl/21.0.0_gcc-9.3 3) armpl/21.0.0
To verify that Arm Performance Libraries are enabled, run example tests.
$
sudo chmod 777 /opt/arm/armpl/21.0.0/armpl_21.0_gcc-9.3/examples
$
cd /opt/arm/armpl/21.0.0/armpl_21.0_gcc-9.3/examples
$
make
... Testing: no example difference files were generated. Test passed OK
After the Arm Performance Libraries module has been loaded, multiple paths are changed to use the Arm Performance Libraries tools. To run code that was compiled by the Arm Performance Libraries tools, load the Arm Performance Libraries module first.
Note
Amazon ParallelCluster versions between 2.10.1 and 2.10.4 use armpl/20.2.1
.