[openib-general] Re: [mvapich-discuss] RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Current OFED kernel snapshot

[Doug Ledford]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:31:22AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Abhinav> By referring to the PPC64 architecture, i was mentioning
>     Abhinav> about the IBM HCAs(4x/12x) running on GX/GX+ Bus. To the
>     Abhinav> best of my knowledge, these HCAs do not support the
>     Abhinav> features mentioned above.
> 
> Hmm, making this a compile-time thing seems like a problem then.  Some
> ppc64 systems have IBM eHCAs and some have Mellanox and/or PathScale
> HCAs.  Shouldn't the same MPI package work on all of these systems?

/agree  Hardware detection and optimization should always be runtime for all
available hardware on a platform IMHO.

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