[petsc-dev] Runtime errors for spooles on BlueGene/Q

[Hong Zhang]

Yes, we should remove PETSc support for Spools and DSCPack.
Should we remove all relevant source codes?

Hong

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Sep 9, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Aron Ahmadia <aron.ahmadia at kaust.edu.sa>
> wrote:
>
> >> We can apply this patch, but do you really find Spooles useful? It has
> not
> >> been maintained in a long time.
> >>
> >
> > I think that the PETSc project has unofficially been maintaining
> > Spooles.  If PETSc stops maintaining it, then it might be time to stop
> > offering the download option for the project or at least deprecating
> > it.
> >
>     I think it is time to remove PETSc support for Spools since it is not
> supported and appears to violate MPI standards that mater on some MPI
> systems.
>
>     Barry
>
> > A
> >
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