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Jenkins: ok to test

@jgphpc I guess using HPL here as a testcase for this toolchain doesn't make much sense, since there's no BLAS/LAPACK support for CrayPGI (at least not as is)?

@boegel yes, with intel mkl: https://www.pgroup.com/support/link.htm#mkl

@jgphpc So, should an Intel MKL module provided by Cray be part of CrayPGI then?

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@boegel it's possible to link without mkl, can you share you hpl testcase ?

without intel mkl

• ftn pgi_mm.F -lblas -dynamic

# libblas.so.0 => /opt/pgi/16.3.0/linux86-64/16.3/lib/libblas.so.0

with intel mkl

• ftn -L$MKLROOT/lib/intel64 -lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_intel_thread -lmkl_core -pgf90libs -liomp5 -lpthread -lm -L$MKLROOT/../compiler/lib/intel64 pgi_mm.F -dynamic
• ldd a.out |grep mkl

    libmkl_intel_lp64.so => /opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2016.1.150/linux/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_intel_lp64.so (0x00007f30c8894000)
    libmkl_intel_thread.so => /opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2016.1.150/linux/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_intel_thread.so (0x00007f30c72b9000)
    libmkl_core.so => /opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2016.1.150/linux/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_core.so (0x00007f30c5982000)

@jgphpc nothing special about HPL, just regular easyconfigs, cfr. https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/tree/master/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HPL

But, to use the BLAS readily provided by the pgi module, you may need to fiddle with the framework support a bit, to get things like $LIBBLAS defined, see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/tree/master/easybuild/toolchains/linalg, in particular libsci.py

(open/close to trigger Travis, need to look into a better way but this is what's recommended by Travis support...)

Good to go now easybuilders/easybuild-framework#1729 is merged, thanks @jgphpc!