Re: [OMPI devel] Fwd: OpenMPI changes

2008-03-06 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Greg Watson wrote: Looking back through the mailing list, I can only see two references that seem relevant to this. One was titled "Major reduction in ORTE" and does allude to the event model changes. The other "OMPI/ORTE and tools" talks about "alternative methods

Re: [OMPI devel] Fwd: OpenMPI changes

2008-03-05 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Greg Watson wrote: I certainly don't (nor anyone in PTP as far as I know) have the resources to re-add functionality to OMPI, so unfortunately it appears that 1.2 will be the end of the line for PTP supported versions. As I mentioned to Ralph, I don't follow your

Re: [OMPI devel] Fwd: OpenMPI changes

2008-03-04 Thread Greg Watson
I don't have a problem using a different interface, assuming it's adequately supported and provides the functionality we need. I presume the recursive behavior you're referring to is calling OMPI interfaces from the callback functions. Any event-based system has this issue, and it is

Re: [OMPI devel] Fwd: OpenMPI changes

2008-03-04 Thread Ralph H Castain
It is buried deep-down in the thread, but I'll just reiterate it here. I have "restored" the ability to "subscribe" to changes in job, proc, and node state via OMPI's tool interface library. I have -not- checked this into the trunk yet, though, until the community has a chance to consider whether

Re: [OMPI devel] Fwd: OpenMPI changes

2008-03-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
Greg -- I admit to being a bit puzzled here. Ralph sent around RFCs about these changes many months ago. Everyone said they didn't want this functionality -- it was seen as excess functionality that Open MPI didn't want or need -- so it was all removed. As such, I have to agree with

[OMPI devel] Fwd: OpenMPI changes

2008-03-04 Thread Greg Watson
Hi all, Ralph informs me that significant functionality has been removed from ORTE in 1.3. Unfortunately this functionality was being used by PTP to provide support for OMPI, and without it, it seems unlikely that PTP will be able to work with 1.3. Apparently restoring this lost