On 11/29/20 9:39 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet wrote: > I made a quick check, and the latest 3.1 MPI standard is supported (at least) > from Open MPI 2.0.* > > (you can check the MPI_VERSION and MPI_SUBVERSION macros in > ompi/include/mpi.h[.in]) Amazing!
Thanks a lot! Aisha > > > please do note that the 2.0 and 2.1 series are no more supported. > > > Cheers, > > > Gilles > > > > On 11/30/2020 11:27 AM, Aisha Tammy via ompi-packagers wrote: >> On 11/29/20 7:45 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet wrote: >>> Aisha, >>> >>> yes, you can install multiple Open MPI implementations in parallel, >>> simply use a different prefix when running configure. >>> >>> Newer versions of Open MPI support the latest MPI standard >> Makes sense :D >>> (there is >>> not a direct link between an Open MPI version >>> and the MPI standard version though). >> Do all OpenMPI major versions support the latest standard? >> That would simplify things a lot :D >>> That being said, with the exception of a few removed/deprecated >>> subroutines, a given version of the MPI standard is a superset of the >>> previous versions. >>> This is at the source level, and Open MPI does not generally guarantee >>> ABI compatibility between two major versions. >> Makes sense too. I was not expecting ABI compatibility between major >> versions. >>> Last but not least, keep in mind several packages depend on MPI, for >>> example mpi4py (python bindings), parallel FFTW (Fast Fourier >>> Transformations), parallel hdf5/netcdf (I/O). >>> So since Open MPI has generally no ABI compatibility between major >>> versions, you would also need multiple versions of the dependents >>> packages (one per Open MPI version). >> Yes, I am aware that we would need multiple "slots" for each dependent >> packages. We have a half finished project that was started a couple >> of years ago which does this slotting of packages and MPI implementations. >> >> Thanks a lot for the answers. >> >> The unfortunate reality is that the default MPI pakages are badly managed in >> almost >> all operating systems and any decent cluster has a sysadmin who cooks >> up a solution for their use case :( >> Even users who want to use OpenMPI, most of the times, install it manually to >> tune and get a better control over it. >> >> Making the default packages saner at the operating system level should >> hopefully >> help a lot of people. >> >> Best, >> Aisha >> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Gilles >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:00 AM Aisha Tammy via ompi-packagers >>> <ompi-packagers@lists.open-mpi.org> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I am a package manager for Gentoo Linux and we are currently trying >>>> to get better MPI support for our package tree. >>>> >>>> A curious question was whether it was possible to have multiple OpenMPI >>>> implementations installed in parallel? >>>> There seem to be multiple OpenMPI versions being supported and presumably >>>> they are supporting different standards of MPI - 2, 3, 3.1 ? >>>> >>>> Am I correct in making this assumption? >>>> If so, it should be possible to allow multiple OpenMPI versions together. >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot, >>>> Aisha >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ompi-packagers mailing list >>>> ompi-packagers@lists.open-mpi.org >>>> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/ompi-packagers >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ompi-packagers mailing list >>> ompi-packagers@lists.open-mpi.org >>> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/ompi-packagers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ompi-packagers mailing list >> ompi-packagers@lists.open-mpi.org >> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/ompi-packagers > _______________________________________________ > ompi-packagers mailing list > ompi-packagers@lists.open-mpi.org > https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/ompi-packagers
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