PVM: Retire or not to retire?

2014-12-03 Thread Richard Shaw
Is anyone going to scream if PVM get's retired? Upstream was last updated in 2009 as far as I can tell... It's packaging is atrocious... The source is copied to the buildroot and compiled in place... It violates the packaging guidelines in multiple bad ways... Also see:

Re: PVM: Retire or not to retire?

2014-12-03 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
PVM in particular and high-performance computing in general are severely broken in most Linux distros and applications. First of all, there's licensing - the GPU folk, especially NVidia, aren't willing to back down as long as their intellectual property strategies are making them rich. For