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

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Freitag, den 15.06.2007, 11:29 -0500 schrieb 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?

As a longer term goal, I'll second that. Personally, I'd like to see
OpenMPI in unstable as soon as possible, and that would held it back
without a good reason.

> | 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.

Yes, we really should.

I'd also like get GROMACS [1] support OpenMPI as well. I'm in contact
with it's maintainer but this won't happen until a new GROMACS version
is released; it won't build correctly with gcc 4.x series. So I've to
have LAM/MPI and OpenMPI working together at the moment.

Best regards
Manuel

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