Problems Installing Intel® Parallel Studio XE Professional Edition for Fortran and C++ Linux

[Rene_G_]

I'm trying to install Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE 2015 Update 1 for Linux.  I have 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release 6.6.  I have more than a TB of disk space free.  I can install software as root (with or without using sudo). I'm just trying to evaluate if we can use this product, so I have no license.

I'm using install_GUI.sh, mostly because install.sh won't let me choose option 2: I want to evaluate my product or activate later. At least the GUI allowed that. It took some trial and error to convince the GUI to 1) use something other than the default tmp space and 2) install in other than the default directory. The directories it initially insisted on using are on a small system partition without much space. It still insisted there wasn't enough space available even after I changed the settings, but finally, randomly (It failed at different points each time I ran it, but errors were either disk space or permissions issues.), it seems to be installing. But now it's taking up almost all of my machine's memory (How much of 32 GB does it really need?) and so far the tmp directory is at 139 GB (which is impressive for an install that's supposed to need 6.3 GB). When I finally cancelled it, the install_gui was still running in the background and I had to kill it by hand.

I had no problems with the Windows 7 install, other than the half hour wait. On Linux, once it finally decided to install, the installation produced no errors. Is this a Red Hat specific problem?

Thanks.

[Martyn_C_Intel]

You can obtain a free, 30 day evaluation version/license from  https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-parallel-studio-xe/try-buy

I recommend that you make your tests with that. You can choose the "edition" according to which other tools you do or do not wish to evaluate.

A normal install would not use nearly so much memory or disk space. It's not clear to me whether what you are doing would be expected to work, even with a clean start. The install of an evaluation version should work fine on Red Had EL 6.6.