Re: MPICH2 packaging
On 16 June 2009 at 10:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
| On 15/06/09 at 18:32 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
| > Hello Pavan,
| >
| > Thank you for the inquiry. I've somewhat left MPICH for now (focusing
| > on OpenMPI, which I don't maintain but use), and assigned its
| > maintenance to the Debian Scientific Computing team. But I think there
| > are others very interested in MPICH2, and am copying the debian-science
| > list to gauge interest.
|
| (Adding Camm Maguire, the LAM maintainer as Cc)
That address has been out of commission for a while; Camm used to work there
but AFAIK no longer does. I don't have the replacement address handy though.
| This raises an interesting question: if we package mpich2, couldn't we
| drop mpich(1) and LAM from Debian? Are there cases where it's more
| interesting to use mpich v1 or LAM than mpich2 or OpenMPI?
As a former Open MPI co-maintainer: yes, LAM is to be deprecated one day as
Open MPI is actively developed whereas LAM is dead. On the other hand, Open
MPI is available on only a subset of architectures. It's tricky.
That said, getting good MPICH2 in would be super too!
Dirk
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