On Feb 3, 2012, at 8:54 AM, James Torossian wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed about 18 months ago in the user archives that the question of > heterogeneous support for clusters of Windows / Linux machines was raised, > and at that time this functionality was not supported. > > Is this still the case? Are there any near term plans in this direction?
I don't think anyone plans to make that work, especially since there is a very simple workaround available. Just install one of the free ssh server packages for Windows and you can use the rsh/ssh launcher. Follow the instructions on the OMPI FAQ for hetero operations and all should work fine. > > Also … still related …. > > Has it been possible to build O-MPI for Windows (with perhaps reduced > capabilities) to use ssh under Cygwin rather than WMI? We are only after a > small subset of MPI functionality. Afraid I don't work that area…perhaps Shiqing could answer it? > > Thanks, > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
