[OMPI devel] Does IMPI solve cross-platform endian/size issues?

2006-06-19 Thread Matthijs Richard Koot
Hi, Does the IMPI protocol solve cross-platform endian/size issues? I'm not sure if this is implied by what's stated in the OpenMPI support-systems FAQ: http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=supported-systems "8. Does Open MPI support execution in heterogeneous environments? Open MPI currentl

Re: [OMPI devel] Does IMPI solve cross-platform endian/size issues?

2006-06-19 Thread George Bosilca
We support "simple" heterogeneous executions. Here simple is defined as no internal conversions on the floating point has to be done. In other words it will work as long as the floating number have the same representation, which imply they have the same length (both for the exponent and man

Re: [OMPI devel] Does IMPI solve cross-platform endian/size issues?

2006-06-19 Thread Matthijs Richard Koot
Thanks for clearing that up, George! Best regards, Matthijs -Original Message- From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org on behalf of George Bosilca Sent: Mon 6/19/2006 3:19 PM To: Open MPI Developers Cc: rj...@os3.nl Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Does IMPI solve cross-platform endian/size issues?