Hello Jeff: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 07:27:42PM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Open MPI users -- > > I took a little heat at the last the MPI Forum for not having Open MPI be > fully complaint with MPI-2.2 yet (OMPI is compliant with MPI-2.1). > Specifically, there's still 4 open issues in Open MPI that are necessary for > full MPI-2.2 compliance: > > https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&summary=~MPI-2.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=version&order=priority > > We haven't made these items a priority because -- to be blunt -- no one > really has been asking for them. No one has come forward and said "I *must* > have these features!" (to be fair, they're somewhat obscure features). > > Other than not having the obvious "OMPI is MPI-2.2 compliant" checkmark for > marketing reasons, is there anyone who *needs* the functionality represented > by those still-open tickets? > > Thanks for your input.
>From my point of view, I would be glad to see more emphasis on stability in OpenMPI (where stability means absence of bugs) than on new features. I am still using OpenMPI-1.2.8 Just my $0.02, Douglas. -- Douglas Guptill voice: 902-461-9749 Research Assistant, LSC 4640 email: douglas.gupt...@dal.ca Oceanography Department fax: 902-494-3877 Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, B3H 4J1, Canada
