[openib-general] [mvapich-discuss] This is the last time I'm asking...

[Jeff Squyres]

DK --

Are you going to answer my questions?


On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> As I explained in my mail, no one had replied to any of the posts  
> containing my very directed and specific questions (not even you --  
> and you still haven't), so I figured that no one cared.  That's not  
> an unreasonable assumption given that I posted the same questions 3  
> times and got silence in return.
>
> I am unaware of any special "right" required to make a motion.  Are  
> there some protocols (perhaps a la Robert's Rules of Order) that  
> are typically used for making a motion?  I haven't seen any...?
>
> The agenda for the SC Developer's Summit is already over-full.   
> This conversation is fine to begin in e-mail; a good start would be  
> answering my original questions.  Thanks!
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Dhabaleswar Panda wrote:
>
>> Jeff:
>>
>> May I know on with what `right' you are making this motion to remove
>> the code.
>>
>> To have the code there was decided by the OpenIB community and the
>> organizers. It needs to be decided by the community, not by an
>> individual person.
>>
>> Let me suggest that we we discuss this at the Developers Summit at SC
>> '06.  If the Open Fabrics community no longer wants the code to be
>> there and will prefer to download it from the OSU SVN site, we can
>> proceed accordingly.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> DK
>>
>>
>>> Having received no replies for 2 weeks as to why it is useful to  
>>> have
>>> MVAPICH in the OpenFabrics SVN, I can only conclude that no one
>>> cares.  If someone does care, please respond to my original  
>>> questions
>>> included below ASAP (originally posted 23 Oct, 27 Oct, 1 Nov).
>>>
>>> I therefore make the motion to remove MVAPICH from the OpenFabrics
>>> SVN (all the source is still available via the OSU SVN and other
>>> distribution points).  Specifically, I motion to do the following
>>> around COB tomorrow (7 Nov 2006):
>>>
>>>      svn rm https://openib.org/svn/gen2/trunk/src/userspace/mpi
>>>
>>> Any objections?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>>>
>>>> Forwarding this to the mvapich-discuss list because it has gotten
>>>> zero replies on the openib-general list.  If someone from OSU could
>>>> reply, it would be most helpful.  Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres at cisco.com>
>>>>> Date: October 27, 2006 11:05:17 AM EDT
>>>>> To: openib <openib-general at openib.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [mvapich] Announcing the release of MVAPICH2 0.9.6
>>>>> with on-demand connection management, multi-core optimized shared
>>>>> memory communication and memory hook support
>>>>>
>>>>> Any response from the OSU crew?
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone provide a reason why MVAPICH is still in OpenIB's
>>>>> Subversion repository?  Please see my original mail, below, for
>>>>> more detailed questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 23, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 22, 2006, at 11:53 PM, Dhabaleswar Panda wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A stripped down version of this release is also available at the
>>>>>>> OpenIB SVN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see this statement in every MVAPICH release notice and it
>>>>>> continues to puzzle me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I understand that there was a use for an alternate distribution
>>>>>> source before MVAPICH became open source.  But now that the
>>>>>> MVAPICH code bases are freely available from OSU via multiple
>>>>>> mechanisms (anonymous SVN, tarball download, etc.), why is a
>>>>>> "stripped down version" maintained in the OpenIB SVN?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. What, exactly, is the difference between the MVAPICH available
>>>>>> from OSU and the "stripped down version" in the OpenIB SVN?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Why would someone choose to download the "stripped down
>>>>>> version" from the OpenIB SVN?  Have any real users/customers done
>>>>>> so?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. What is the point of maintaining yet more flavors of MVAPICH
>>>>>> -- aren't there enough already (multiple versions from OSU,  
>>>>>> more versions available from each IB vendor)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DK -- can you please explain?  Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Jeff Squyres
>>>>>> Server Virtualization Business Unit
>>>>>> Cisco Systems
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Jeff Squyres
>>>>> Server Virtualization Business Unit
>>>>> Cisco Systems
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jeff Squyres
>>>> Server Virtualization Business Unit
>>>> Cisco Systems
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jeff Squyres
>>> Server Virtualization Business Unit
>>> Cisco Systems
>>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Jeff Squyres
> Server Virtualization Business Unit
> Cisco Systems
>
>


-- 
Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems