Oops! My mistake -- thanks for the correction... I am still correct in thinking that we do not properly handle *size* endianness, right? Meaning that if sizeof(long) on one node is different than sizeof(long) on another, running an MPI job across those two nodes will cause Bad Things to occur if you try to exchange MPI_LONGs between the MPI processes, right? (and similar for other datatypes that are different sizes)
On 8/30/06 9:38 AM, "Brian Barrett" <brbar...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > Actually, Jeff is incorrect. As of Open MPI 1.1, we do support endian > conversion between peers. It has not been as well tested as the rest of > the code base, but it should work. Please let us know if you have any > issues with that mode and we'll work to resolve them. > > Brian > > > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 06:36 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: >> Open MPI does not yet support endian conversion between peers in a single >> MPI job. It's on the to-do list, but it's been a lower priority than some >> other features and issues. >> >> >> >> On 8/30/06 4:12 AM, "Eng. A.A. Isola" <alfonso.is...@tin.it> wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I got one doudt in OPEN-MPI. Suppose, if >>> i >>> run the application on different systems with different data formats >>> (little-endian & big endian)...Willl OPEN-MPI converts from little >>> endian >>> to big-endian(if it is sending data from for eg, Linux Pc & >>> Solaris).... >>> >>> If it isn't able to do this, it will be able in the >>> future releases? (is in your to do list?) >>> >>> Thanking u for ur response, >>> >>> A.A. Isola >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> us...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- Jeff Squyres Server Virtualization Business Unit Cisco Systems
