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Re: updating mpi-defaults (decommissioning lam)



On 10/04/11 at 17:13 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> This sounds reasonable to me.  My only question is, what timeframe could
> we expect the openmpi updates (armel, mips[el] [s390?]) to take?  Should
> we set some deadline at which point we say we can't wait any longer, and
> then push a mixed mpi-defaults with mpich2 on armel/mips (or promote
> mpich2 on all archs) ?
> 
> A related side question: what are the current pros/cons of openmpi vs
> mpich2, aside from architecture support?

The market share for openmpi is currently larger than the one of
mpich2, so defaulting to openmpi sounds like a better idea if it can
work on all architectures.

- Lucas


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