[openfabrics-ewg] OpenMPI package

Thu Mar 23 09:20:21 PST 2006

OK. We'll integrate the current one on Sunday, unless we get a new one
from Jeff till the end of the week. 

Regards,
   Aviram

-----Original Message-----
From: Yaron Segev [mailto:yarons at voltaire.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:19 PM
To: Aviram Gutman; Jeff Squyres (jsquyres); Moni Levy
Cc: Pavel Shamis; Gil Bloch; openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Gleb Natapov
Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OpenMPI package

<4. Gleb sent me a proposed spec file for Open MPI -- we'll iterate
about <this off-list.

<<Aviram> Who will send us the OpenMPI version to be integrated?

You (Vlad from MLX) already got that from Moni. Jeff will probably
follow next week with new one if needed, or remain with the same per his
off-line discussions with Gleb.

-Yaron
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openfabrics-ewg- 
> bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Aviram Gutman
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 6:35 PM
> To: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres); Moni Levy
> Cc: Pavel Shamis; Gil Bloch; openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Gleb Natapov
> Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OpenMPI package
> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Welcome aboard. Tziporet is out this week. I tried to answer most of
the
> questions below. We'll get back to you wit the rest of the answers by 
> Monday morning. Please See some answers below.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>    Aviram
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) [mailto:jsquyres at cisco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:41 PM
> To: Aviram Gutman; Moni Levy
> Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Gleb Natapov
> Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OpenMPI package
> 
> Several issues:
> 
> 1. Since I am just entering this effort, I downloaded RC2 yesterday
and
> poked around inside for details on how Open MPI will need to be 
> packaged.  I sent an off-list mail to Tziporet last night asking a
bunch
> of technical questions (I probably should have sent this on-list, 
> sorry).  Here are the main questions from that e-mail:
> 
> - I downloaded RC2.  It looks like you are distributing source and
have
> some scripts to build RPMs and install the RPMs.  Is that correct /
the
> goal of IBED?
> 
> <Aviram> Yes
> 
> - The README appears to be quite out of date; I assume you will need 
> some Open MPI-specific information for it.  How should I get this to 
> you?
> 
> <Aviram> Just send it and we'll incorporate it.
> 
> - It looks like the LICENSE file is incomplete -- shouldn't it contain

> at least references to the license / copyright information of the 
> sub-packages?  (e.g., MVAPICH and others)
> 
> <Aviram> That is good issue. I am not a LICENSE expert. Who can answer

> it? Marketing guys?
> 
> - I see a bunch of top-level *.sh scripts -- these will need to be 
> expanded for Open MPI.  Who does that -- me or you?
> 
> <Aviram> Can you do it and send it over?
> 
> - I see SOURCES/mpi_osu...tgz.  That contains a bunch of scripts and
the
> mvapich tarball.  I'm assuming that Open MPI needs to be bundled this 
> way as well...?  Is this documented anywhere?  Is there a reason why a

> tarball contains another tarball?
> 
> 
> - The mpi_osu...tgz file contains several MPI-independent utilities 
> (PMB, prestal, etc.).  Should these be moved out of the OSU MPI
tarball
> and into an MPI-agnostic tarball, and then compiled against each MPI 
> that is installed?
> 
> <Aviram> Will get back to you on those two.
> 
> - What is the plan for having 2 MPIs in this distribution -- how will 
> users/sysadmins choose between them?  I.e., are we going to allow both

> to be installed and make it a user-level decision which to use?  Or
will
> the sysadmin only pick one to install?  Or ...?
> 
> <Aviram> We need to decide on that. All, how do you view it?
> 
> 2. Some more questions that I did not include in my mail last night:
> 
> - Is there a source code repository for IBED somewhere?  What is the 
> model for developers to modify / test IBED?
> 
> - What version of MVAPICH is being used?  I see 
> mvapich-0.9.5-mlx2.0.1.tar.gz -- does this mean it's Mellanox's v2.0.1

> of MVAPICH 0.9.5?  Are other vendors allowed to modify this?  (I ask 
> because all of our MVAPICH's are slightly different -- fixed bugs 
> specific to our customers, etc.)
> 
> <Aviram> We'll use 0.9.7 It will be incorporated on the next rc. Yes
we
> can fix and modify it.
> 
> - There appear to be multiple levels of indirection in the MVAPICH
build
> scripts -- what directory --prefix is it being installed to?  (this is

> going to be influenced by the answer to the "2 MPI" question, above)
> 
> <Aviram> Will get back to you it.
> 
> 3. I would like to use Open MPI v1.0.2 for the IBED release (Gleb is
on
> the Open MPI mailing lists and probably saw me send that intention to 
> the Open MPI team yesterday).
> 
> <Aviram> OK.
> 
> 4. Gleb sent me a proposed spec file for Open MPI -- we'll iterate
about
> this off-list.
> 
> <Aviram> Who will send us the OpenMPI version to be integrated?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aviram Gutman [mailto:aviram at mellanox.co.il]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:47 AM
> > To: Moni Levy; Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
> > Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Gleb Natapov
> > Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OpenMPI package
> >
> >
> > Jeff, Moni,
> >
> > We want to integrate to the IBED package OpenMPI. We need an
agreement
> 
> > on the package. Can we converge on which OpenMPI version to take
this
> > week?
> > Thus, we can release a new rc next week with OpenMPI.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >    Aviram
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
> > [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Moni Levy
> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:32 AM
> > To: jsquyres at cisco.com
> > Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Gleb Natapov
> > Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] OpenMPI package
> >
> > Hi, Jeff,
> >     I would like to share with you that there was request for a 
> > OpenMPI package that will enable us to test it and later integrate
it
> > into the build framework for the next RC of the EOD release.
Voltaire
> > (Gleb
> > Natapov) picked up the glove and generated such a package. It may be

> > used as a reference for future packaging that I'm sure you'd like to

> > implement.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Moni
> >
> 
> 
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