On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: > I'm getting a lot of push back from the SysAdmin folks claiming that OpenMPI > is closely intertwined with the specific version of the operating system > and/or other system software (i.e., Rocks on the clusters).
I wouldn't say that this is true. We test across a wide variety of OS's and compilers. I'm sure that there are particular platforms/environments that can trip up some kind of problem (it's happened before), but in general, Open MPI is pretty portable. > To state my question another way: Apparently each release of Linux and/or > Rocks comes with some version of OpenMPI bundled in. Is it dangerous in some > way to upgrade to a newer version of OpenMPI? Not at all. Others have said it, but I'm one of the developers and I'll reinforce their answers: I regularly have about a dozen different installations of Open MPI on my cluster at any given time (all in different stages of development -- all installed to different prefixes). I switch between them quite easily by changing my PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (both locally and on remote nodes). -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
