[Swift-devel] Falkon and Coaster support for MPI

[Ioan Raicu]

This email thread is over (from my point of view).  We can continue it 
in person, if you'd like.

Ioan

Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:16 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
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>> Mihael Hategan wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:57 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
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>>> ...
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>>> Thank you for the token. I didn't realize I needed one though.
>>>   
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>> I thought this entire thread was about identifying where 
>> (Coaster/Falkon) it makes the most sense to add MPI support, given 
>> people are really busy, and we don't want to duplicate the effort.
>>     
>
> s/where/whether/.
>
> Then you said it's hard (using the "bad is bad" argument), and you
> wouldn't do it, and I said I didn't think it was that hard, and perhaps
> it could be reasonably done.
>
> After which you mentioned that it may not be as hard as you thought (at
> least 1 day of coding on your part), then later suggested that it still
> shouldn't be done because a random student/staff would likely not be
> able to do it in a few months.
>
> Further down the line, you mentioned you'll give it a try, and then if
> you fail after a week, I or Ben could take a stab at it.
>
> I believe we agreed that BG is a nasty platform.
>
> The issues:
> 1. You really don't have to do anything as far as I'm concerned,
> especially if you think it's too much for the time you have.
> 2. You don't get to decide (by giving tokens or otherwise) by yourself
> when/whether I or Ben should do things.
> 3. There is no effort duplication. Falkon is your PhD research project.
> Coasters are what I/we officially develop as production software.
>
> I would like to suggest that in the future, we keep falkon and coaster
> discussions separate. The term "falkon/coasters" should probably only be
> used to denote the glide-in concept, not as a reference to the
> implementations.
>
> Mihael
>
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>
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