Error: 'Kernel "mul" has no providers' on macOS with x86 processor

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Hello,

I am very new to PyFR and want to set it up on my MacBook Pro (2015) for running some simple test cases. I followed the steps exactly on this installation page, but have encounter the issue as the following:
First, when I was downloading ‘libxsmm’ with

git clone git@github.com:libxsmm/libxsmm.git

I encountered an error indicating missing authentication (or something similar), so I did

git clone git@github.com/libxsmm/libxsmm.git

instead and followed the rest. I set up the run with

pyfr run -b openmp -p 2d-inc-cylinder.pyfrm inc-cylinder.ini

but then I encountered an error with missing kernel ‘mul’, which seems to be related to the ‘libxsmm’ library.

  File "/Users/huqiyang/pyfr-venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyfr/backends/base/backend.py", line 173, in kernel
    raise KeyError(f'Kernel "{name}" has no providers')
KeyError: 'Kernel "mul" has no providers'

I am not sure how to resolve this and I wish to know which backend I should be looking into for running on my 2015 MacBook Pro. Really appreciate for any help!

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Have you added PYFR_LIBXSMM_LIBRARY_PATH=... to your environment? Also I recently had a similar problem and, from lscpu or the mac equivalent, I think you need to at least have the AVX2 instruction set extension.

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Hi WillT,

I did huqiyang@DN0a2252e4 libxsmm % export PYFR_XSMM_LIBRARY_PATH=pwd/lib/libxsmm.dylib when I was installing libxsmm, with which I assume the environment variables is set up properly.

In terms of AVX2 extension, I might need to check on that.

Thanks!

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Can you confirm which version of PyFR you are using?

Regards, Freddie.

5

Hi Freddie,

The PyFR version I have is 1.15.0.

Thank you,
Jerry

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Do any of the other examples work? And would you be able to try the current git development version of PyFR?

Regards, Freddie.

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Hi Freddie. I haven tested any other examples but will make sure to do that. For the .ini file, do I need to add

[backend-openmp]
cc = gcc-13

to it?

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For macOS, yes.

Regards, Freddie.

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Thank you Freddie.

I just ran the test cases ‘2d euler vortex’ and ‘2d couette flow’ but encountered the same error

KeyError: 'Kernel "mul" has no providers'

I am guessing it might be a compatibility issue?

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It is likely you have an incorrect version of libxsmm.

Regards, Freddie.

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Thank you again.

Would you please let me know the source of the correct version of libxsmm? I installed my current version libxsmm followed the instruction in PyFR documentation.

Best,
Jerry

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I have just confirmed that the test case is working fine with the current develop version of PyFR from GitHub along with libxsmm revision 15d55050cf836caab418d41865b3108b55b67934. Specifically, on an Intel Mac with a 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7:

❯ OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 mpirun -np 4 pyfr run -bopenmp -p inc-cylinder.pyfrm inc-cylinder.ini
 100.0% [=============================>] 75.00/75.00 ela: 00:06:34 rem: 00:00:00

Regards, Freddie.