Doug wrote, >One minor clarification, it's not so much the RPM packaging that makes >things difficult, it's the compatibility matrix. Since things aren't >designed to cleanly inter-operate with each other in anything other than >very specific combinations, it means that updates are an all or nothing >affair. This is in direct contrast to the rest of our entire operating >system where we isolate and target things that need fixed and only >things that need fixed.
I think this was true early on with the OFA and OFED releases, but I do think things are stabilizing in this area as the code has matured and thus I think that having various components decoupled should be easier going forward. So from a technical standpoint, I do not see a problem with removing MPIs from OFED. I can however see the benefit of that packaging from a customer point of view in making it easier to install without having to go get packages from multiple places. I personally do not really care either way as I use Intel MPI for my testing, and BTW, Intel MPI has always been decoupled and we have not seen this to be a problem. We have recommended people install newer versions of OFED from time to time as MPI found bugs that were fixed in the newer OFED, but it was not the API that was not stable, it was just bugs that were found that required a newer OFED version. woody _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
