Re: [OMPI users] MPI flavor-agnostic libraries

2009-01-14 Thread Mattijs Janssens
We did something similar in OpenFOAM by encapsulating our communications routines into a separate shared library which gets loaded through LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The api of this library does not expose any mpi specifics so for a new MPI version we only have to recompile our small communications libra

Re: [OMPI users] MPI flavor-agnostic libraries

2009-01-14 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Gregory D Abram wrote: I'd like to release binary libraries that use MPI but are agnostic as to which flavor or MPI (eg. OpenMPI, MVAPICH, LAM...) that is used by the application linking the libraries. I've seen that there are some significant differences that s