[petsc-dev] OpenMPI is a menace

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:38 PM, "C. Bergström" <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>wrote:

> On 11/ 5/12 10:13 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
>> I am tired of wasting time on their stupid bugs which we report but are
>> never fixed. Is there a way to retaliate without grenades?
>>
> Switch over to HPX?
> http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu/**tag/hpx/<http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu/tag/hpx/>
>
> I'm not sure it's at a point where it can handle petsc, but keep it in
> mind for 2013.  I'm cc'ing one of the devs who is probably not subscribed,
> but can answer questions.  (bandwidth permitting and maybe delayed until
> @SC12 or after)
> -----------
> Option 2 - We (PathScale) have been considering to take on shipping a
> supported version of OpenMPI for some time.  If anyone would be interested
> in add-on support or just paying a bounty to fix bugs - We may be able to
> work it out.  (Not the perfect open source answer, but maybe it's better
> (cheaper?) than grenades..
>
> Which bugs are you specifically interested in getting fixed?
>

When they install to a non-standard location, they do not add RPATH support
for the
library link in their compiler wrappers.

   Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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