[ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

[Pavel Shamis (Pasha)]

>
> 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"
>   

It is not so simple and clear for me after all this discussion on the 
thread.
Some OFED member want to remove MPIs and some strongly against it (the 
same correct for OFED user community
too).

As I mentioned previously I sure that this step will push users from 
OFED distributions
towards vendors packages, like it was before first OFED release.

What will you answer on user's question: "How can I install MPI with 
OFED support ?"
Will you send user to read 10 pages of MPI Installation FAQ ? :-)

My 0.02 $

Pasha