Hi Larry, Good timing... Jeff Squyres just posted yesterday about this topic. You can find his suggestions here: http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2011/06/9366.php -- Tim
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Lawrence Stewart <lstewa...@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > I apologize for asking elementary questions, I have spent some time looking > through the open-mpi.org site and the list archives, without notable success. > > I am contemplating writing a btl component in order to make OpenMPI work on > the fos experimental message-based operating system under construction at > csail. The network semantics provided are reliable, in-order messages to > process mailboxes, which may be shared. This <ought> to be straightforward, > but > > * A search around open-mpi.org did not uncover a "how to write a BTL > component" document. Is there one? > > * A quick survey through .../ompi/mca/btl did not uncover an obvious > "example". Is there one? Or which existing component is the simplest > non-rdma one? It might be that elan is the simplest, > based on source lines, but it is a little tricky to untangle the elan-parts > from the open-mpi parts. > > > The other thing I'll have to tackle is figuring out whether fos has enough of > the os interfaces needed by the rest of open-mpi, and how to get the job > launch machinery working. > > -Larry > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > -- Tim Mattox, Ph.D. - http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/ timat...@open-mpi.org || tmat...@gmail.com I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net/
