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

[Yiftah Shahar]

Pasha, All,

I wrote a long detailed mail addressing many of the issues but most, if
not all, of the points were already addressed by others so I will try to
be short.

I can see from the mails and from my personal experience that most of
the "end users" do not need/use the MPI coming as part of OFED (they
have many different MPI installed in their clusters), as we can see
distro are not using it and also some (if not all) of OFED binary
package providers (i.e. companies) do not use it.

We think that the simple & clear answer is: "take the MPI packages out
of OFED"

This will serve us all good and it will be step in the right direction.

Regards,
Yiftah

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ewg-
> bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Pavel Shamis (Pasha)
> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 11:10
> To: Tziporet Koren
> Cc: EWG; OpenFabrics General
> Subject: Re: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?
> 
> 
> > - Need to synchronize between different projects
> The synchronization between OFED and MPIs are minimal.
> In most cases OFED just take last available MPI version.
> 
> It happens that OFED discovers some really critical bug
> and we ask MPI to provide new version. But for critical
> bugs, MPI team anyway releases new bugfix version ASAP.
> 
> >
> > - 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'm personally against excluding MPI from OFED package.
> 
> Pasha.
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