topic 2018_0018: theano compilation error in Intel® Distribution for Python*

2018_0018: theano compilation error

sergio_r_ — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:29:45 GMT

Hello folks,

Trying the theano code:

$ python
Python 3.6.2 |Intel Corporation| (default, Aug 15 2017, 16:14:26)
[GCC 4.8.2 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-15)] on linux
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>>> from theano import function, config, shared, sandbox
icpc version 13.0.0 (gcc version 4.7.0 compatibility)
>>> import theano.tensor as T
>>> import numpy
>>> import time
>>> vlen = 10 * 30 * 768  # 10 x #cores x # threads per core
>>> iters = 1000
>>> rng = numpy.random.RandomState(22)  
>>> x = shared(numpy.asarray(rng.rand(vlen), config.floatX))  
>>> f = function([], T.exp(x))
>>> ... ... ... icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option
 \'-qopt-prefetch=2\'. /usr/include/c++/4.8/iostream(38): catastrophic error: cannot open 
source file "bits/c++config.h".   #include <bits/c++config.h>.                              ^. . compilation 
aborted for /home/srojas/.theano/compiledir_Linux-3.13--generic-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid-x86_64-3.6.2-64/tmpy7syaejc/mod.cpp (code 4). ', '[Elemwise{exp,no_inplace}(<TensorType(float32, vector)>)]')

Is there any way to overcome this "catastrophic error"?

Thanks,

Sergio

Hi Sergio,

Christophe_H_Intel2 — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:55:19 GMT

Hi Sergio,

Intel Theano defaults to using the Intel compiler if it finds it on your system. In your case, the installed compiler is version 13.0, which only has gcc 4.7 compatibility. You have three options:

1. Use Intel compiler >= 16.0

2. Remove icpc from your path before importing theano

3. At runtime, you can change the config to use gcc with the following code

from theano import config
config.cxx = 'g++'
config.gcc.cxxflags = '-fopenmp -O3 -opt-prefetch=2 -funroll-loops'

Thanks,

Chris

Thanks Christopher,

sergio_r_ — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:31:13 GMT

Thanks Christopher,

Options 2 and 3 works.

Salut,

Sergio
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