What a wonderfull implementation !!!! 2009/4/2 Damien Hocking <dam...@khubla.com>
> Outstanding. I'll have two. > > Damien > > > George Bosilca wrote: > >> The Open MPI Team, representing a consortium of bailed-out banks, car >> manufacturers, and insurance companies, is pleased to announce the >> release of the "unbreakable" / bug-free version Open MPI 2009, >> (expected to be available by mid-2011). This release is essentially a >> complete rewrite of Open MPI based on new technologies such as C#, >> Java, and object-oriented Cobol (so say we all!). Buffer overflows >> and memory leaks are now things of the past. We strongly recommend >> that all users upgrade to Windows 7 to fully take advantage of the new >> powers embedded in Open MPI. >> >> This version can be downloaded from the The Onion web site or from >> many BitTorrent networks (seeding now; the Open MPI ISO is >> approximately 3.97GB -- please wait for the full upload). >> >> Here is an abbreviated list of changes in Open MPI 2009 as compared to >> the previous version: >> >> - Dropped support for MPI 2 in favor of the newly enhanced MPI 11.7 >> standard. MPI_COOK_DINNER support is only available with additional >> equipment (some assembly may be required). An experimental PVM-like >> API has been introduced to deal with the current limitations of the >> MPI 11.7 API. >> - Added a Twitter network transport capable of achieving peta-scale >> per second bandwidth (but only on useless data). >> - Dropped support for the barely-used x86 and x86_64 architectures in >> favor of the most recent ARM6 architecture. As a direct result, >> several Top500 sites are planning to convert from their now obsolete >> peta-scale machines to high-reliability iPhone clusters using the >> low-latency AT&T 3G network. >> - The iPhone iMPI app (powered by iOpen MPI) is now downloadable from >> the iTunes Store. Blackberry support will be included in a future >> release. >> - Fix all compiler errors related to the PGI 8.0 compiler by >> completely dropping support. >> - Add some "green" features for energy savings. The new "--bike" >> mpirun option will only run your parallel jobs only during the >> operation hours of the official Open MPI biking team. The >> "--preload-result" option will directly embed the final result in >> the parallel execution, leading to more scalable and reliable runs >> and decreasing the execution time of any parallel application under >> the real-time limit of 1 second. Open MPI is therefore EnergyStar >> compliant when used with these options. >> - In addition to moving Open MPI's lowest point-to-point transports to >> be an external project, limited support will be offered for >> industry-standard platforms. Our focus will now be to develop >> highly scalable transports based on widely distributed technologies >> such as SMTP, High Performance Gopher (v3.8 and later), OLE COMM, >> RSS/Atom, DNS, and Bonjour. >> - Opportunistic integration with Conflicker in order to utilize free >> resources distributed world-wide. >> - Support for all Fortran versions prior to Fortran 2020 has been >> dropped. >> >> Make today an Open MPI day! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
