Intel module generation via env2

[shahzebsiddiqui]

Intel claims to use their shell scripts when loading the environment. Most HPC sites write their own intel modulefile which work for most cases however, it is not configured properly according to what Intel claims.

Please review this link and reconfigure the module file to source the script.
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-environment-modules-with-the-intel-development-tools

[ocaisa]

Are you saying the intel compiler installations from EasyBuild are not working for you? I noticed the other day that the output from the shell scripts includes MKL, IntelMPI and friends, exactly what source file are you using to build your intel installations (the EB one in the repos don't include these RPMs)?

[shahzebsiddiqui]

No EasyBuild is working for Intel, the issue is the way module files are generated from EasyBuild is the not the optimal method as Intel claims. Please see link. One would need to modify the IntelBase easyblock in order to make this work. Right now I am using EasyBuild to install the software and overwriting the modulefile by doing a source on the intel script.

[ocaisa]

The script you seem to be using (psxevars.sh) is for entire Parallel Studio package (since you have things like daal, tbb and intel python inside), if you just load the intel compiler and use the scripts for the compilers (ifortvars.sh and iccvars.sh) I think you'll find that the actual differences are far less. In fact the intel scripts explicitly include mpi in their output, which we explicitly do not want in EasyBuild. Other intel packages like IntelMPI, IntelMKL, tbb, daal, etc. that come with Parallel Studio are all packaged separately in EasyBuild (on purpose).

I'm pretty certain that @boegel, @wpoely86 and the other contributors have been very careful on this front, but if you see a specific discrepancy with the software the modules are meant to be installing then definitely this can be fixed.

[ocaisa]

And the intel installation scripts are not without flaws...take a look at #1032