[Swift-devel] Falkon and Coaster support for MPI

[Michael Wilde]

There's been some initial discussion off-list on whether it would be 
possible to run MPI jobs under Falkon on the BG/P, under its ZeptoOS 
(Linux) environment which is what is currently supporting Falkon execution.

Kamil and Kaz are the main ZeptoOS architects and developers at Argonne, 
and Kaz is just readying an initial development of MPI support under 
ZeptoOS.

Initial discussion is suggesting that MPI support under Falkon under 
ZeptpoOS is non-trivial. So it seems reasonable to ask what it would 
take to provide MPI support under Coaster as a future capability.

Everyone involved, on ZeptoOS, Falkon and Swift is exceptionally busy. I 
don't want to create distractions, but do want to bring this up for 
longer-term discussion.

- Mike