Install LIKWID on a cluster (e.g. myriad) using the `perf_event` backend

[tkoskela]

Instructions in LIKWID wiki

Document steps to install in a comment to this issue.

[themkots]

• [ ] Git clone and build / install excalibur-tests steps in several machines:
  • [ ] Myriad
  • [X] Kathleen
  • [X] Young
  • [ ] Cosma8

Those steps should be similar for all of the above target machines.

• Create a workdir mkdir ~/Excalibur cd ~/Excalibur git clone https://github.com/ukri-excalibur/excalibur-tests.git

For [Myriad, Kathleen, Young] we have to use a more recent compiler suite than the currently default gcc 4.9.2, and a newer python

module unload -f compilers gcc-libs mpi module load beta-modules module load gcc-libs/10.2.0 compilers/gnu/10.2.0 module load python3

• Create a venv python3 -m venv ./EXCALIBUR . ./EXCALIBUR/bin/activate

• Get and build spack git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true https://github.com/spack/spack.git . ./spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh which spack Should reply ~/Excalibur/spack/bin/spack spack --version Should reply with something like 0.22.0.dev0 (88e738c34346031ce875fdd510dd2251aa63dad7)

• Get latest pip, as the one currently provided snags against our .toml file to be used below python -m pip install --upgrade pip .... Successfully installed pip-23.3.1

• Finally, cd to our codebase and install via pip; this will also install a compatible version of ReFrame from PyPi.
  cd excalibur-tests pip install -e .

• [ ] Build / install LIKWID with perf_event backend instead of native access steps in several machines:

  • [ ] Myriad
  • [X] Kathleen
  • [X] Young
  • [ ] Cosma8

Those steps should be similar for all of the above target machines.

For [Myriad, Kathleen, Young] we have to use a more recent compiler suite than the currently default gcc 4.9.2, and a newer python

• Setup environment / manage modules module unload -f compilers gcc-libs mpi module load beta-modules module load gcc-libs/10.2.0 compilers/gnu/10.2.0 module load python3
• Get into the python venv created as above cd Excalibur/ . ./EXCALIBUR/bin/activate
• Download likwid in a convenient place mkdir dloads ; cd dloads VERSION=stable wget http://ftp.fau.de/pub/likwid/likwid-$VERSION.tar.gz tar -xaf likwid-$VERSION.tar.gz
• Get in the folder, in this case cd cd likwid-5.3.0/ vi config.mk # configure build, e.g. change installation prefix and architecture flags
• In my case, # Path were to install likwid # PREFIX ?= /usr/local#NO SPACE PREFIX ?= /home/ucaseko/Excalibur/likwid-5.3.0#NO SPACE # Set the default mode for MSR access. # This can usually be overriden on the commandline. # Valid values are: direct, accessdaemon and perf_event # ACCESSMODE = accessdaemon#NO SPACE ACCESSMODE = perf_event#NO SPACE # Build Fortran90 module interface for Marker API. Adopt Fortran compiler # in ./make/include_<COMPILER>.mk if necessary. Default: ifort (even for 25 # COMPILER=GCC) FORTRAN_INTERFACE = false#NO SPACE # Instrument likwid-bench with Marker API calls for use with likwid-perfctr INSTRUMENT_BENCH = true#NO SPACE
• Then make # sudo make install # sudo required to install the access daemon with proper permissions make install # with my edits in config.mk