[Pkg-ofed-devel] MVAPICH2 / MVAPICH for Debian OFED

[Guy Coates]

Toru Nishimura wrote:
> Debian pkg-OFED seems to have no provision of MVAPICH2
> nor MVAPICH.  Only OpenMPI is offered.  Is there any chance to
> obtain other two packages from pkg-OFED?  Or, do a specfic reason
> exist to avoid them?

I did not package up either openMPI or MPICH, as they already exist in
debian. The standard debian openMPI package is infiniband aware, and
"just works."

I have not tested MPICH.

I also figured that most HPC sites probably compile their own
openMPI/MPICH anyhow, as sites have their own version requirements, or
need to compile in extra features such as checkpoint and queuing system
support.

The mpi-test suite is MPI agnostic; you could recompile it against MPICH
if you wish.  (I probably need to make the mpi-tests package build-able
against either MPICH or openMPI, but that is way down my priority list.)


Cheers,

Guy

-- 
Dr. Guy Coates,  Informatics System Group
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1223 834244 x 6925
Fax: +44 (0)1223 496802


-- 
 The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research 
 Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a 
 company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered 
 office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.