Damien <dam...@khubla.com> writes: > Is this something that could be funded by Microsoft, and is it time to > approach them perhaps? MS MPI is based on MPICH, and if mainline MPICH > isn't supporting Windows anymore, then there won't be a whole lot of > development in an increasingly older Windows build. With the Open-MPI > roadmap, there's a lot happening. Would it be a better business model > for MS to piggy-back off of Open-MPI ongoing innovation, and put their > resources into maintaining a Windows build of Open-MPI instead?
Maybe Fab can comment on Microsoft's intentions regarding MPI and
C99/C11 (just dreaming now).
> On 2014-07-17 11:42 AM, Jed Brown wrote:
>> Rob Latham <r...@mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>> Well, I (and dgoodell and jsquyers and probably a few others of you) can
>>> say from observing disc...@mpich.org traffic that we get one message
>>> about Windows support every month -- probably more often.
>> Seems to average at least once a week. We also see regular petsc
>> support emails wondering why --download-{mpich,openmpi} does not work on
>> Windows. (These options are pretty much only used by beginners for whom
>> PETSc is their first encounter with MPI.)
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