additional support for RHEL clones (almalinux, rockylinux)

[tbugfinder]

Hi,

as new RHEL - clones take over CentOS lack of bug-compatibility I'd consider AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux as major successor platforms.
Currently this repo only supports centos and rhel as platform strings but should support others, too - especially as those are bug-compatible builds.
I understand though, that current CycleCloud support is limited to ubunto, centos, rhel.

Thanks

[abdkha]

RockyLinux and RHEL are the only supported Images if we want to use Intel MPI:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/system-requirements/mpi-library-system-requirements.html

Because official support is not found. I am hesitant to use these cyclecloud hpc images in my environment

[aditigaur4]

We do currently support almalinux 8 images. RHEL rpms we build work on almalinux, that in fact is one the HPC images cyclecloud is defaulted to use.

[aditigaur4]

Can you please mention what you are trying to do? and what problems you are encountering?

[abdkha]

Hi there!

I have an Ansys Fluent job that is using the slurm scheduler. It creates a 3d modeling simulation using hpc nodes. In my batch script, if I'm running the modeling on one node then it runs completely fine.

However, if I run try to split the job to run parallelly on two hpc nodes. Then I'm encountering this error:

[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] check_exit_codes (../../../../../src/pm/i_hydra/libhydra/demux/hydra_demux_poll.c:117): unable to run bstrap_proxy on ip-0AA31228 (pid 10632, exit code 65280)
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] poll_for_event (../../../../../src/pm/i_hydra/libhydra/demux/hydra_demux_poll.c:159): check exit codes error
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] HYD_dmx_poll_wait_for_proxy_event (../../../../../src/pm/i_hydra/libhydra/demux/hydra_demux_poll.c:212): poll for event error
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] HYD_bstrap_setup (../../../../../src/pm/i_hydra/libhydra/bstrap/src/intel/i_hydra_bstrap.c:1062): error waiting for event
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] HYD_print_bstrap_setup_error_message (../../../../../src/pm/i_hydra/mpiexec/intel/i_mpiexec.c:1014): error setting up the bootstrap proxies
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] Possible reasons:
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] 1. Host is unavailable. Please check that all hosts are available.
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] 2. Cannot launch hydra_bstrap_proxy or it crashed on one of the hosts. Make sure hydra_bstrap_proxy is available on all hosts and it has right permissions.
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] 3. Firewall refused connection. Check that enough ports are allowed in the firewall and specify them with the I_MPI_PORT_RANGE variable.
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] 4. Ssh bootstrap cannot launch processes on remote host. Make sure that passwordless ssh connection is established across compute hosts.
[mpiexec@ip-0AA31225] You may try using -bootstrap option to select alternative launcher.

After doing some research I'm under the impression that Intel MPI isn't working quite right because alma isn't fully supported for Intel's Infiniband

[aditigaur4]

Please let us know if you need something from us on this. We have new alma images released recently, so please check if the problem persists. Closing this until then, reopen if needed.