HI, Unless you provide Open MPI static libraries, you might not be required to rebuild your apps. You will likely have to / should rebuild OpenMPI though
Cheers, Gilles Peter Kjellström <c...@nsc.liu.se> wrote: >On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 19:04:59 -0400 >Mehmet Belgin <mehmet.bel...@oit.gatech.edu> wrote: > >> Greetings! >> >> We have not upgraded our OFED stack for a very long time, and still >> running on an ancient version (1.5.4.1, yeah we know). We are now >> considering a big jump from this version to a tested and stable >> recent version and would really appreciate any suggestions from the >> community. > >Some thoughts on the subject. > >* Not installing an external ibstack is quite attractive imo. > RHEL/CentOS stack (not based on any direct OFED version) works fine > for us. It simplifies cluster maintenance (kernel updates etc.). > >* If you use an external IB-stack consider the constraints it may put > on your update plans (for example, you want to update to CentOS-7.3 > but your OFED only supports 7.2...). > >* Also consider updates for the stack itself wrt. security. Upstream > OFED has been quite good at patching security bus but they DO NOT > maintain older releases (-> you may have to run a nightly build of > latest). Mellanox has patched when poked at but also only for latest > version. Intel does not seem to do security afaict and with a dist > stack it's covered by the normal dist updates. > >/Peter K >_______________________________________________ >users mailing list >us...@open-mpi.org >Subscription: https://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >Link to this post: >http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2016/06/29430.php
