[mpich-discuss] PMI documentation

[Pavan Balaji]

>> PMI-1 does not standardize the wire 
>> protocol, so there are different implementations for it including the 
>> default simple PMI protocol, smpd PMI protocol and slurm PMI protocol. 
> 
> That's frustrating, the wire protocol with mpd is very easy to use.  I'm
> looking at it for two reasons and one of them is for a application
> written in perl where it's nearly impossible to interface with the C api
> but really easy to use the wire protocol.

Most process managers, including MPD, use the simple PMI protocol. So 
you can look into that.

  -- Pavan

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Pavan Balaji
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