[Swift-devel] mpi on swift

Michael Wilde wilde at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Jun 29 15:51:05 CDT 2008


Previous work: Nika ran MPI climate models, an app called FOAM, under 
VDS. I dont know if the CHARMM runs that Nika did under Swift were MPI 
or not. I think not, but I dont recall.  Its worth looking at those 
workflows.

On 6/29/08 3:30 PM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> There is periodic talk of running MPI programs through swift, including 
> some projects expressing desire to do that and some people playing round 
> trying to.
> 
> I propose that I spend about a week gathering together experiences from 
> anyone who has actually tried to do it (I suspect there will not be much 
> there); figure out myself how to get some basic MPI stuff running in 
> simple situations through swift; write some documentation about such 
> situations; and figure out what cannot be done at the moment that would be 
> useful to address.




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