-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I do have to weigh in that in the "real" HPC world, either modules or softenv out of ANL [ http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/systems/software/msys/ ] are the way to do things.
I understand Donnie's statement and do thing that the "Gentoo way" needs to be solved as well. However, any cluster solution really should include either modules or softenv. Donnie Berkholz said the following on 2006-02-12 16:57: > Andrew D. Fant wrote: >> I think the real solution here is to use modules ( >> http://modules.sourceforge.net ) to handle the different versions of >> mpi. I filed a bug about using this for switching alternate virtuals a >> couple years ago, but nobody seemed to be particularly interested. I've >> got a grad student working on something to let users switch between mpi >> for gcc and mpi for the portland group compilers. I am most certainly >> not the right person to do the heavy lifting on this, but I do have an >> ebuild for modules I could contribute to the cause. > > That is an idea that's been brought up on the bug, but we need something > that integrates into the Gentoo framework for switching things around: > eselect [1]. > > Perhaps one could create an eselect wrapper around modules. It certainly > couldn't hurt to take a look at modules (via your ebuild) and see > whether we could adapt it to our needs. > > Thanks, > Donnie > > 1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/ > - -- Brian D. Ropers-Huilman, Director .:. High Performance Computing Networking, Infrastructure, & Research / Information Technology Support Frey Computing Services, Rm. 323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Louisiana State University +1 225.578.3272 (V) Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1900 USA +1 225.578.6400 (F) http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/ http://www.cct.lsu.edu/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD7/CxwRr6eFHB5lgRA4PVAKChjDEYtd8i05tGK26wtba1BR/jngCgzVUz Fwtkevqhi8jJlpGkAKveYr4= =3FWE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
