MPI: Building OpenMPI 1.6.4

Assumes:

• Centos 62 with OFED libs already installed
• Development tools installed

Pull down the SRC RPM

  wget http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/downloads/openmpi-1.6.4-1.src.rpm

Build

  rpmbuild --rebuild --define '_prefix /shared/apps/openmpi/1.6.4-gcc' \ 
                                --define '_localstatedir /shared/apps/openmpi/1.6.4-gcc/var' \
                                --define '_sharedstatedir /shared/apps/openmpi/1.6.4-gcc/var/lib' \
                                --define '_mandir /shared/apps/openmpi/1.6.4-gcc/share/man' \
                                --define '_infodir /shared/apps/openmpi/1.6.4-gcc/share/info' openmpi-1.6.4-1.src.rpm

Install

• File will be created in ~/rpmbuild/RPM/x86_64
• Add to cluster provisioning or rpm -ivh