[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Request to Join Project Debian OpenMPI Team

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 June 2007 at 18:16, oliva.g at na.icar.cnr.it wrote:
| I Agree. We need to carefully check if the package can cohoexist with
| the other MPI libraries. I think we should include among these the new

Yes indeed. At a minimum all run-times needs to be installable at the same
time.  As for -dev packages, I haven't thought hard about this, but it would
be need if one could have more than one too.  Longer term goal, maybe?

| mpich2 package wich is currently mainteined here:
| http://torvalds.cs.mtsu.edu/~zach/debian/1.0.2p1
| by Zach Lowry <zach at zachlowry.net>.
| What do you think?

Yes. I had a brief look at MPICH2 as a coworker though the could use it from
windows. He gave up on that idea, and I am happy with lam for the status quo
and openmpi as the future, broadly speaking :), but we should coexist nicely
with the other MPIs.

Dirk

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