Re: MPI implementations in squeeze
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 11:31 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> Am Montag, den 30.11.2009, 22:11 -0800 schrieb Nicholas Breen:
> > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:49:20PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > From the point of view of a client package, what is now best practice
> > > for working with MPI? Is there a website/wiki/document explaining how
> > > to set up an MPI-using package, or is it just a matter of RTFM from
> > > mpi-default-dev?
> > >
> >
> > No particular documentation that I'm aware of, though it's a good thought....
>
> But adding MPI support is usually as easy as Nicholas pointed out in his
> email. If one only wants to build an MPI version, build-depending on
> mpi-default-dev is best; if you want to build one package per MPI
> implementation, you have to do that yourself. Nicholas' gromacs package
> is a good example for that!
>
I'll probably keep it simple and just build once against
mpi-default-dev. If users have a strong need for other MPIs then they
can file a bug request.
Thanks all for the tips, hopefully won't be too tricky to get gerris
mpi-packaged.
Drew
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