[openfabrics-ewg] Default and per-user MPI selections

[Steffen Persvold]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-
> bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Squyres
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:35 PM
> To: Scott Weitzenkamp; Open Fabrics
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Default and per-user MPI selections
> 
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> 
> Both of these use case scenarios involve the fact that *someone* has to
> do something *after* the OFED installer is complete in order to use
> their cluster the way they want to.  Why shouldn't users be able to
> install OFED and "mpicc ... ; mpirun ..." right out of the box?  That
> just seems silly to me (particularly if you choose the "HPC" software
> set -- in this case we
> *know* that they're going to be using MPI).

One should at the very least, have the option to NOT set system defaults (to
accommodate for experienced users wanting more than openmpi/mvapich on their
system and those that doesn't want mpi settings in /etc/ld.so.conf etc...),
no ?

Cheers,
Steffen