Threading Building Blocks (TBB)

Why: need for Kokkos

Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) is a library that supports scalable parallel programming using standard ISO C++ code. It does not require special languages or compilers. It is designed to promote scalable data parallel programming. Additionally, it fully supports nested parallelism, so you can build larger parallel components from smaller parallel components. To use the library, you specify tasks, not threads, and let the library map tasks onto threads in an efficient manner.

Many of the library interfaces employ generic programming, in which interfaces are defined by requirements on types and not specific types. The C++ Standard Template Library (STL) is an example of generic programming. Generic programming enables Intel TBB to be flexible yet efficient. The generic interfaces enable you to customize components to your specific needs.

The net result is that Intel TBB enables you to specify parallelism far more conveniently than using raw threads, and at the same time can improve performance.

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Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks is available commercially (see http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-tbb) as a binary distribution, and in open source, in both source and binary forms (see https://github.com/intel/tbb).

1. Require: glibc 2.17

check: ldd --version

The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project's implementation of the C standard library. 

2. Compile TBB

Download:

https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneTBB/releases

configure manuall in: oneTBB-2020.2/cmake/README.rst

#--

tar zxvf oneTBB-2020.2.tar.gz
cd oneTBB-2020.2/build

#-- comment out these lines from the "build/linux.gcc.inc" file:

# gcc 4.8 and later support RTM intrinsics, but require command line switch to enable them
ifneq (,$(shell gcc -dumpversion | egrep  "^4\.[8-9]"))
    RTM_KEY = -mrtm
#endif

#--
module load compiler/gcc-9.2.0 

module load tool_dev/cmake-3.17.2

module load tool_dev/glibc-2.19

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home1/p001cao/local/app/tool_dev/glibc-2.19/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

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cd oneTBB-2020.2/src

make -j 8

it will produce new folder "build/linux_intel64_gcc_cc9.2.0_libc2.12_kernel2.6.32_release" contain library of TBB.

#ref: 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10726537/how-to-install-tbb-from-source-on-linux-and-make-it-work