Re: openmpi versus mpich2

2011-08-08 Thread Eric A. Borisch
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo raram...@gmail.com wrote: Basic question: Can these two ports be installed side by side: openmpi and mpich2 and which one is better for what purposes or are they equivalent in function and performance? --Thanks --R Provided mpich2 is not

Re: openmpi versus mpich2

2011-08-08 Thread Jason Swails
Coming from the world of high performance computing, MPICH2 and related variants (like mvapich2) tend to enjoy more support than OpenMPI due to performance considerations. I personally use mpich2 myself, but tend to compile my own MPIs, as the multiplicity can get you in trouble (if you link

Re: openmpi versus mpich2

2011-08-08 Thread Eric A. Borisch
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: I personally use mpich2 myself, but tend to compile my own MPIs, as the multiplicity can get you in trouble (if you link serial libraries to MPI code, you can run into lots of problems if the compiler version used to

corrupted database

2011-08-08 Thread mikie mike
Hi, As my Lion freezes very often (https://discussions.apple.com/message/15676049#15676049) my MacPorts database got corrupted somehow during installation of gtk2 i guess. Now I can't continue to install any ports (log from installation of gtk2 below). This is obviously what is described here:

RE: Python frameworks

2011-08-08 Thread Russell Jones
Or simpler for the user (perhaps) have an as_python option, the default (this would work for ipython, too), which would set the value based on the selected version of python, e.g. python2.7 - pylint-2.7 (or however it's written in the port select names) Russell

Re: Python frameworks

2011-08-08 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 6, 2011, at 11:20, mark brethen wrote: Would it be best to create a 'pylint' group and use port select? This would reflect the developer's viewpoint: I'm kind of reluctant to handle this in Spyder's code (of course, if it's the only way, we will take action anyway) because there

Re: Python frameworks

2011-08-08 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 8, 2011, at 11:43, Russell Jones wrote: Or simpler for the user (perhaps) have an as_python option, the default (this would work for ipython, too), which would set the value based on the selected version of python, e.g. python2.7 - pylint-2.7 (or however it's written in the port

Re: openmpi versus mpich2

2011-08-08 Thread Rodolfo Aramayo
The developer of the package I want to run (Velvet) told me I should just install 'libgomp' Can you guys translate this for me? Is he talking about openmpi or mpich2?? or something else?? Thanks On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 09:21, Eric A. Borisch ebori...@macports.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at

Re: openmpi versus mpich2

2011-08-08 Thread Jason Swails
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo raram...@gmail.com wrote: The developer of the package I want to run (Velvet) told me I should just install 'libgomp' Can you guys translate this for me? Is he talking about openmpi or mpich2?? or something else?? Something else. libgomp is

Re: openmpi versus mpich2

2011-08-08 Thread Rodolfo Aramayo
And we do no have a port for openmp;(( Thanks --R On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 13:25, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo raram...@gmail.com wrote: The developer of the package I want to run (Velvet) told me I should just install

Re: Python frameworks

2011-08-08 Thread mark brethen
With python27 port installed, and a reverse-engineered local portfile of py26-spyder, I was able to get spyder 2.0.12 running. I do not have multiple python frameworks installed on my mac. If I run python in a terminal window it uses: Mark-Brethens-MacBook-Pro:bin marbre$ python Python 2.6.1