We are considering a “purge” of stale ORTE code and want to know if anyone is using it before proceeding. With the advent of PMIx, several ORTE features are no longer required by OMPI itself. However, we acknowledge that it is possible that someone out there (e.g., a researcher) is using them. The specific features include:
* OOB use from within an application process. We need to retain the OOB itself for daemon-to-daemon communication. However, the application processes no longer open a connection to their ORTE daemon, instead relying on the PMIx connection to communicate their needs. * the DFS framework - allows an application process to access a remote file via ORTE. It provided essentially a function-shipping service that was used by map-reduce applications we no longer support * the notifier framework - supported output of messages to syslog and email. PMIx now provides such services if someone wants to use them * iof/tool component - we are moving to PMIx for tool support, so there are no ORTE tools using this any more We may discover additional candidates for removal as we go forward - we’ll update the list as we do. First, however, we’d really like to hear back from anyone who might have a need for any of the above. Please respond by Oct 5th Ralph _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.open-mpi.org https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/devel