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mpitune error

Jimmy_J_1 — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:54:12 GMT

I've read up on the tutorials to mpitune, but it fails everytime I run it. When simply running mpitune (or with any arguments) I get:

path_to_mpitune_executable: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

I'm on a linux machine and it is a single machine (currently not clustered). I have Parallel Studio 2016 Professional Edition (full license and latest update), and a trial version of the Intel MPI libraries. Compiling and linking with the MPI libraries works fine and mpirun on the compiled executable runs fine, too.

Anyone know what's going on?

Did you try the file command

TimP — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:15:30 GMT

Did you try the file command to see if that appears to be an executable matching your platform?

Hi Jimmy,

Artem_R_Intel1 — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 07:24:14 GMT

Hi Jimmy,

Could you please provide more information about your environment (OS, shell version) and the command line you use to run mpitune?

BTW which version of Intel MPI Library do you use (you can see it with 'mpirun -V')?

Hi Jimmy,

Artem_R_Intel1 — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:13:14 GMT

Hi Jimmy,

It looks like bash isn't the default shell in your environment (for example, like in Ubuntu* OS /bin/sh may point to /bin/dash). Currently such shells aren't supported by the mpitune utility. As a workaround you can try to correct shell settings (e.g. redirect /bin/sh to /bin/bash).

I'll submit an internal ticket to add dash support for mpitune.

Same error appears in my case

Sunil_K_2 — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:01:00 GMT

Same error appears in my case also.

intel/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/mpi/intel64/bin/mpitune: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

more details below.

mpitune --application \"mpirun -n 2 ./pw.x < Si.sample.in > Si.sample.out\" -of ./pwx.conf

OS : Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

shell : GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

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