quick question about our OS / building JAX

[Viraj Mehta]

Will do, thanks!

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:34 PM Predrag Punosevac <predragp at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> 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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