PARDISO License for HPC

Mark Myer

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Apr 16, 2024, 9:00:34 AM4/16/24

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Hello all,

I am experiencing an issue with running R-INLA on an HPC cluster with Red Hat linux, where the software asks for a PARDISO license. I see from some past posts on this forum that there was talk about a freeware solution - is the current INLA still dependent on PARDISO 8?

% ./inla.mkl

[PANUA] License check: Cannot find license file.

***************************************************************************

CONTAINS Runtime Modules of Parallel Sparse Linear Solver PARDISO Vers. 8.2

No license file found. Please see

https://www.panua.ch/products/pardiso

where to place the license file panua.lic

***************************************************************************

9a7aa62ad6fa8c98b4b6a269dcdee2160b81e3cd - Sun Mar 24 20:47:01 2024 +0300

*** Error: Expected argument after options.

Usage: ./inla.mkl [-v] [-V] [-h] [-f] [-eVAR=VALUE] [-tA:B] [-mMODE] FILE.INI

Håvard Rue

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Apr 16, 2024, 12:26:20 PM4/16/24

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the license file should be like this one

$ ls -l ~/panua.lic
-rw------- 1 hrue hrue 770 Mar 1 14:41 /home/hrue/panua.lic

and needs to be placed there

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Abi Riley

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Apr 25, 2024, 3:53:07 AM4/25/24

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Hi there,

I am also having similar troubles but at a later stage, I guess.

I have identified the license on the HPC, have used inla.setOption in R and specified the key, but then inla.pardiso.check gives this message:

> inla.pardiso.check

GitID: file: error-handler.c eabef9f0c5191d7287b59145b03d23ae93e5728b - Sat May 7 11:06:00 2022 +0300

Error:24 Reason: License file for PARDISO: Not found

Line:522 Function:

[1]

[2]

[3] "*************************************************************************** "

[4] "CONTAINS Runtime Modules of Parallel Sparse Linear Solver PARDISO Vers. 7.2"

[5] "CUSTOMIZED FOR THE R-INLA PACKAGE WHICH SOLVES A LARGE CLASS OF STATISTICAL"

[6] "MODELS USING THE INLA APPROACH. "

[8] ""

[9] "No PARDISO license file found. Please see `http://www.pardiso-project.org/r-inla"

[10] "where to place the license file pardiso.lic "

[11] "*************************************************************************** "

[12] "FAILURE: PARDISO IS NOT INSTALLED OR NOT WORKING"

inla.pardiso gives:

> inla.pardiso()

Error in browseURL("https://pardiso-project.org/r-inla/") :

'browser' must be a non-empty character string

Is this because of the change of website of the pardiso download? Is there a way around this?

Many thanks in advance,

Abi

Håvard Rue

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Apr 25, 2024, 4:10:59 AM4/25/24

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Hi

you need a newer version of INLA with the version 8 of the PARDISO library. The
7.2 version is out as their licensing system has changed (out of our control).

I guess you're not using R-4.3. Please upgrade to R-4.3 and reinstall INLA
(likely also all packages needs to be reinstalled).

$ R --quiet --vanilla -e 'INLA::inla.pardiso.check()'
> INLA::inla.pardiso.check()
[1] "SUCCESS: PARDISO IS INSTALLED AND WORKING"

H