On Dec 14, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> As far as I know, there is no support for some MPI-2 features in the shared >> memory BTL as dynamic process creation or port connection. Are you planning >> to include this support? > > It depends on what exactly you mean. Dynamically spawned processes do use the > shared memory BTL between themselves, but not with the processes in their > parent job. We plan to support that as well at some future time.
...when enough people ask for it. :-) We've talked about supporting this for a long time, but to be blunt, there hasn't been enough demand for it to justify spending the time to figure out all the issues and implement it properly. :-( Patches would be welcome, though! :-) -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
