On Jul 7, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:

> No....afraid not. Things work pretty well, but there are places where things 
> just don't mesh. Sub-node allocation in particular is an issue as it implies 
> binding, and slurm and ompi have conflicting methods.
> 
> It all can get worked out, but we have limited time and nobody cares enough 
> to put in the effort. Slurm just isn't used enough to make it worthwhile (too 
> small an audience).

...that being said, patches would be appreciated.  :-)

But, as Ralph alluded to, there's quite a history -- anyone attempting to make 
such a patch should probably have a phone call with Ralph to get up to speed on 
both the history and the why-things-are-the-way-they-are story about Open MPI's 
SLURM support before starting.

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