On Jun 10, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Cian Davis <cianda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > An old version of software I use (FDS 5.5.3 in this case - a CFD solver for > fire) was compiled against LAM-MPI. It looks for the particular executables > that came with LAM-MPI and looks for a running lamd.
Ah, bummer. > I tried a while ago to symlink against more current OpenMPI distributions > without success (I will admit I didn't throw a huge amount of time at it). > > I have LAM-MPI compiled and running on our Ubuntu cluster, but I got a > request this morning from someone who read a post on the FDS fourm a few > years ago for the CentOS RPMs. I went to lam-mpi-org to get them, got > confused by the Chinese, Googled and found your blog post. Gotcha. I actually didn't have a role in deciding to take down the LAM/MPI web site -- IU simply decided that it was time to stop renewing the domain (I left IU ~9 years ago). > The newer version of the software (Version 6) is compiled against OpenMPI. Good to hear. > By the way, a .deb of recent OpenMPI releases would be really nice if someone > would be so kind :-) Sadly, I have minimal experience with .debs... if someone would contribute the necessary packaging, we could talk about hosting a source deb on the main Open MPI site. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
