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

[Hong Zhang]

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On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Sep 9, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Hong Zhang <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> > Yes, we should remove PETSc support for Spools and DSCPack.
> > Should we remove all relevant source codes?
>
>    Any source that would be dead code if you don't use Spools or DSCPack
> should be removed.
>
>    Barry
>
> It will always be there in the deleted part of the repository so it is
> never truly lost.
>
I'll do the removing.
Hong

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