If you have an opinion on the v2.2.x-vs-v3.x question, please submit your vote
by COB this upcoming Friday, 2 Dec, 2016:
https://www.open-mpi.org/sc16/
Thanks!
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 4:32 PM, Pritchard Jr., Howard <howa...@lanl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> This is a followup to the question posed at the SC’16 Open MPI BOF: Would
> the community
> prefer to have a v2.2.x limited feature but backwards compatible release
> sometime
> in 2017, or would the community prefer a v3.x (not backwards compatible but
> potentially
> more features) sometime in late 2017 to early 2018?
>
> BOF attendees expressed an interest in having a list of features that might
> make it in to v2.2.x
> and ones that the Open MPI developers think would be too hard to back port
> from
> the development branch (master) to a v2.2.x release stream.
>
> Here are the requested lists:
>
> Features that we anticipate we could port to a v2.2.x release
> • Improved collective performance (a new “tuned” module)
> • Enable Linux CMA shared memory support by default
> • PMIx 3.0 (If new functionality were to be used in this release of
> Open MPI)
> Features that we anticipate would be too difficult to port to a v2.2.x release
> • Revamped CUDA support
> • MPI_ALLOC_MEM integration with memkind
> • OpenMP affinity/placement integration
> • THREAD_MULTIPLE improvements to MTLs (not so clear on the level of
> difficult for this one)
> You can register your opinion on whether to go with a v2.2.x release next year
> or to go from v2.1.x to v3.x in late 2017 or early 2018 at the link below:
>
> https://www.open-mpi.org/sc16/
>>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Howard
>
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> HPC-DES
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
>
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