Hi Riku! Am Donnerstag, den 28.01.2010, 23:10 +0200 schrieb Riku Voipio: > Manuel Prinz wrote: > > One big step in this effort is to change the mpi-defaults package to no > > longer use LAM/MPI. We (as in: debian-science) agreed to use MPICH2 on > > the architectures were Open MPI does not build currently. > Is there some work ongoing to make Open MPI more portable > or add the atomic asm instructions for more archs?
Yes, there is. I'm working on that and upstream is very supporting. I also got lots of help by porters already. There exist patches to fallback on libatomic-ops on arches where atomic ops are not available. They are still experimental, though. Best regards Maneul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org