Yeah, but I'm cheap and get the Intel compilers for free :-)

On Jul 17, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Rob Latham <r...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 07/17/2014 01:19 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> hey, (almost all of) c99 support is in place in visual studio 2013
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-library-support-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx
> 
> ==rob
> 
>> 
>>> 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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