On 11/09/2014 10:45, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Version 1.8.2 is out, which brings a good list of bug fixes. > > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/announce/2014/08/0063.php > Yeh, professionally, I left the scientific world for Mozilla. So, my interest for scientific packages decreased. Sorry about that. > In the changelog, this line : > - Close many memory leaks to achieve valgrind-clean operation > suggests bug #732160 may be addressed. > > How large an effort would it be to update openmpi from the 1.6 to the > 1.8 series ? > Usually, upstream is great to keep our work easy. However, it is likely that this version of OpenMPI requires an SO bump (and therefor requires a transition). Such transition is going to be important to be done before Jessie. However, we could prepare everything in experimental. If you are interested, I would be happy to sponsor such work.
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