On 22 December 2010 19:57, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > >> On 21 December 2010 20:50, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >>>>> ? ? fixing/understanding 64-bit checks, >>>> >>>> I think these checks are ok, please report problems. >>> >>> Would it be possible to get ParMetis working with 64bit indices? >>> Sean >> >> This is from parmetis.h >> >> /* Indexes are as long as integers for now */ >> #ifdef IDXTYPE_INT >> typedef int idxtype; >> #else >> typedef short idxtype; >> #endif >> >> Have any of you seriously tryied parmetis in 64 bits? > > ?Yes, when I noticed that block of code several years ago. Looks like it > would be easy to switch to long int but sadly this include is misleading > about the simplicity, turns out this typedef beasty is not used throughout > the source code consistently.
Damn, > I sent email about the 64 bit int at that time and got back the response "in > a few months". Note that his non-MPI codes may fully support the 64 bit (I'm > guessing that is where the $ is so is all he cares about). That was like two > years ago. ?I consider Parmetis orphaned, not maintained, hence in the HPC > world, dead. > Add to that license issues. A fork in order to maintain and improve it is unlikely. -- Lisandro Dalcin --------------- CIMEC (INTEC/CONICET-UNL) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colectora RN 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1011) Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169
