[ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

[Pawel Dziekonski]

On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 at 10:30:07PM +0300, Tziporet Koren wrote:

> Main reasons to keep MPI in OFED:
> - All participants test with the same MPI versions, and when installing 
> OFED it is ensured that MPI will work fine with this version.
> - Customers convenience in install (no need to go to more sites to get MPI)
> - MPI is an important RDMA ULP and although it is not developed in OFA it 
> is widely used by OFED customers

As a customer I strongly support above mentioned pros. It's a
guarantee for us that MPI is well tested with OFED release. I believe
that this effort saves a lot of troubles that would be raised from
separate releases of MPI and OFED distros.

thanks, Pawel
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