quick question about our OS / building JAX

[Predrag Punosevac]

Good! You should email users at autonlab is somebody else needs it

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:40 PM Viraj Mehta <virajm at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Actually got it to build, thank you!
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:58 AM Viraj Mehta <virajm at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Ah I didn’t know we had the 8.xxxx installed in the tools directory—I’ll
>> try and point at that. Thanks for bearing with me.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:51 AM Predrag Punosevac <
>> predragp at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I have no idea. FYI the default version of gcc on RHEL 8.2 is 8.xxx. On
>>> RHEL the default version is 4.8.5 but you will find gcc 8.xxx in
>>> /opt/rh/dev-tools8
>>> or something like that. What is old about it?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 11:46 AM Viraj Mehta <virajm at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Predrag,
>>>>
>>>> Hope you're well and sorry for bothering you so much lately. Since we
>>>> talked about JAX a while back, I've been trying to figure out if there was
>>>> a way to get it built on our cluster environment as there are some features
>>>> of its autodiff system I like for some current work. I have two questions
>>>> which I've bolded.
>>>>
>>>> I recently found this thread: https://github.com/google/jax/issues/2083
>>>> where somebody got it to build on CentOS, which afaik is another RHEL
>>>> variant. I think the major differences between this guy's setup are the
>>>> CUDA/cuDNN version (but we have versions which are supported) and the gcc
>>>> version (in which ours is older). *Do you think in general that it
>>>> would be plausibly feasible to build this on our cluster? *
>>>>
>>>> In my most recent effort I ran into something where our version of gcc
>>>> is too old to understand the command line option '-std=c++14'. *Is
>>>> there a way to get an alternate / newer version of gcc on our machines?*
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the help.
>>>>
>>>> Viraj
>>>>
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