On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. If this is a big deal, I can mail George directly. He let me fool with the tarball and distribute it with PETSc last time I asked him. Matt > -- > 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 > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20101222/ee45e69f/attachment.html>
