On May 14, 2015, at 11:29 PM, Chaitra Kumar <chaitragku...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We are developing an application which can handle only POSIX threads and > POSIX synchronization APIs. I would like to know if the OpenMPI runtime > implementation makes use of the POSIX threads and POSIX synchronization APIs > (lock, mutex, semaphore, signal, etc.) or not, in particular, the > communication/buffer management layer.
Yes, it does. If you have specific questions about the internals of the Open MPI code base, you probably want to ask them on the "devel" list: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/