HPCX and IMPI modules not compatible with Lmod

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HPCX and IMPI modules not compatible with Lmod #80

Open xpillons opened 3 years ago

xpillons commented 3 years ago

Lmod is failing to load HPCX and IMPI modules. Repro :

yum install Lmod
module use /usr/share/Modules/modulefiles
module load mpi/hpcx Lmod has detected the following error: The following module(s) are unknown: "/opt/hpcx-v2.7.4-gcc-MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.0-redhat7.8-x86_64/modulefiles/hpcx"

module load mpi/impi Lmod has detected the following error: The following module(s) are unknown: "/opt/intel/impi/2018.4.274/intel64/modulefiles/mpi"

hmeiland commented 2 years ago

Looks like a recursive load of another module outside of modulepath is causing issues; either copy original module to modulepath or create symlinks could solve this...

hmeiland commented 2 years ago

proposal https://github.com/Azure/azhpc-images/pull/102 made for CentOS 7.9; if ok, I'll update other dists/versions...

hmeiland commented 2 years ago

added moving from environment-modules to Lmod in PR #102; this would break some modules in outside CentOS 7.9; so please allow me to finish the PR before accepting....