[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Sunday 07 June 2009, Pavel Shamis (Pasha) wrote:
...
> > - MPI is an important RDMA ULP and although it is not developed in OFA
> > it is widely used by OFED customers
>
> I guess that MPI users are the widest OFED user community and including
> MPI as part of OFED definitely simplify
> end-user live.

I've heard this argument more than once now and I don't agree. MPI 
installation is at our site de-coupled from the OFED installation (for quite 
a few reasons such as, different compilers, multiple versions, 
RM-integration, ...).

I'm sure there are quite a few that do use the OFED shipped MPIs but I'm 
equally certain I'm far from alone in building MPI on the side.

One vote for keeping MPI out of OFED,
 Petere

> I'm personally against excluding MPI from OFED package.
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