Good to know.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Stephens, Michael M ERDC-RDE-ITL-MS
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> some food for thought on this subject.
> VS run time system for VS2010 and earlier has a bug in it that doesn't allow 
> XML flavored files (vtu, vtp, etc) over 4 GB (or was it 2 GB?) to be read 
> correctly.
> it has an fseek error.  I think this was reported a while back when I first 
> stumbled on it.
>
> I've HEARD that this was fixed in VS2012/2013 but have not verified it 
> personally.
>
> -m
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ParaView [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Utkarsh 
> Ayachit
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:08 AM
> To: Burlen Loring
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 
> 32 and 64-bit
>
> Good to know. I think we'll make the switch at the same time when we upgrade 
> the VS compiler we're using for the binaries. We are switching to using 
> CMakified Python soon and then we wouldn't need to use VS2008. Any thoughts 
> on which is the most common VS compiler? Qt distributes binaries for 2010, 
> 2012, 2013. I suppose we can pick 2012 :).
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Burlen Loring <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Ahh, that may be, I wouldn't have noticed it since I have admin on my
>> account.
>>
>> as far as the version of the standard implemented by MS MPI in HPC
>> Pack 2012 (internal ver 256), it's 2.0. The TestSystemCaps regression
>> test has the code to report.
>>
>>
>> On 8/11/2014 9:53 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>
>>> Additionally, you need to run the installer as admin since it
>>> installs a daemon (I believe). I think it would make sense to put out
>>> two version of Windows binaries (without MPI and with MS MPI) and
>>> then include the MSMPI installer as a part of the installation
>>> process, esp. since no other Windows MPI is officially supported any more.
>>>
>>> Something to think about for 4.3, not sure I want to make the plunge
>>> for 4.2 -- but we'll keep the options open :).
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Burlen Loring <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Utkarsh,
>>>>
>>>> I think it does implement MPI2. At least my codes make heavy use of
>>>> MPI 2 and it works fine. However, I'll look into it and report back.
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft's documentation says:
>>>>
>>>> You may also redistribute this MS-MPI installation package with your
>>>> own applications, to facilitate having an application that can run
>>>> on a stand-alone workstation and easily take advantage of an HPC
>>>> Pack 2012 R2-based cluster. Please refer to the license agreement
>>>> for additional details.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like if you use an installer it could handle the dependency.
>>>>
>>>> Burlen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08/11/2014 08:03 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The ParaView dev team switched from Open-MPI 1.6.2 backwards to
>>>> 1.4.4, precisely because the support was dropped.
>>>>
>>>> That is correct. That's  precisely why we've stuck with 1.4.4. I
>>>> spent a lot of time trying to packing 1.6.* on Windows to no success
>>>> and then decided to just stick with 1.4.4.
>>>>
>>>> Problem is that the source code for the current MS-MPI builds does
>>>> not seem to be publicly available,
>>>>
>>>> The problem with using MS-MPI is two fold:
>>>> 1. I can't remember if its support MPIv2 API. I don't think so, but
>>>> I may be wrong.
>>>> 2. The license (at least when I checked) doesn't allow us to packing
>>>> the dlls in our binaries. In other words, we would always have to
>>>> have the user manually install using the installer distributed by MS.
>>>>
>>>> Utkarsh
>>>>
>>>>
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