[MPICH] MPICH2 status on heterogeneousness support

[Matthew Chambers]

I hope there are plans to at least support differing type sizes (32 bit, 64
bit, possibly 16 bit interoperability) and differing byte orders (little
endian and big endian).  Did MPICH1 support different floating point
representations (other than IEEE)?  The 16 bit support and the different
floating point representations are insubstantial issues I think, and I'm not
aware of any other types of heterogeneousness in workstation networks.

-Matt Chambers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-mpich-
> discuss at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Irfan Syed
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:14 PM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [MPICH] MPICH2 status on heterogeneousness support
> 
> Hello,
> 
> What is the scope of 'heterogeneity' which mpich2 plans to support?
> 
> Thanks,
> Irfan
> 
> Rajeev Thakur wrote:
> > It will probably not be there in the next release, which should be in
> > a month or so. The following release may have some preliminary support
> > for heterogeneous.
> > Rajeev
> >
> >     --------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >     *From:* owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> >     [mailto:owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov] *On Behalf Of *Matthew
> >     Chambers
> >     *Sent:* Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:44 PM
> >     *To:* mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> >     *Subject:* [MPICH] MPICH2 status on heterogeneousness support
> >
> >     I'm curious how close MPICH2 is to supporting heterogeneous
> >     networks of workstations.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     Matt Chambers
> >