Thank you Jeff, Despite some names doesn't make sense they are very original ;)
Caciano On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: > On May 15, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Caciano Machado wrote: > > > What are the meanings of the PML names OB1, DR and CM? The paper "An > > evaluation of Open MPI's Matching Transport Layer on the Cray XT" > > says that they don't have any special meaning, but here ( > http://www.open-mpi.org/papers/workshop-2006/wed_01_pt2pt.pdf > > ) I saw that DR stands for "Data Reliability". It's correct? > > > The names mostly reflect our horrid ability to name things. :-) > > You are correct about "DR" -- but note that it was never finished. > It's probably only pseudo-operable; it doesn't do everything that it > was designed to do because the DR developers got other priorities and > never finished it. > > OB1 = Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars (we couldn't think of any good > name at the time and really needed a name so that we could start > coding...) > --> similarly, the "r2" BML is R2-D2 from Star Wars > > CM = "Connor MacLeod" from The Highlander movie, a reference to the > fact that "there can only be 1" ...MTL module in an MPI process (vs. > OB1, which can have as many BTL modules as are relevant) > > There you go -- a little insight into the warped minds of those of us > who bring you Open MPI. Ok, I'm a little embarrassed now. ;-) > > -- > Jeff Squyres > Cisco Systems > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >
