#10869: Optional package openmpi-1.4.3 fails to install on Solaris 10 (SPARC)
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7
Component: optional packages | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
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Comment(by vbraun):
Its a pretty low-level C library, so I don't think Sage developers should
write any documentation. We don't have documentation for libntl, say,
either. You need to know MPI and write Cython code to use it.
You don't necessarily need a cluster, you can also use it to distribute
work over multiple cores of a single computer. Although not quite as
efficient as threads, that gives you the opportunity to run your code
unmodified on a cluster should you need to in the future.
Since its quite a mature package I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be
in optional. Most of the experimental spkgs are completely broken by
comparison. I also have never seen a SPARC cluster. Though we should fix
it eventually, of course. Given that Solaris uses OpenMPI as its official
MPI library it must be possible to compile it :-)
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