Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: Thanks for all the good replies on this thread. I don't know if I'll be able to make a dent in the corporate IT bureaucracy but I'm going to try. From:Prentice Bisbal To:Open MPI Users Date:

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

On 2/1/2011 5:02 PM, Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: I use OpenMPI on a variety of platforms: stand-alone servers running Solaris on sparc boxes and Linux (mostly CentOS) on AMD/Intel boxes, also Linux (again CentOS) on large clusters of AMD/Intel boxes. These platforms all have some version of the

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

Thanks for all the good replies on this thread. I don't know if I'll be able to make a dent in the corporate IT bureaucracy but I'm going to try. From: Prentice Bisbal To: Open MPI Users List-Post: users@lists.open-mpi.org Date: 02/02/2011

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: > I use OpenMPI on a variety of platforms: stand-alone servers running > Solaris on sparc boxes and Linux (mostly CentOS) on AMD/Intel boxes, > also Linux (again CentOS) on large clusters of AMD/Intel boxes. These > platforms all have some version of the 1.3 OpenMPI

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: > 2. The system libraries on different linux versions are not always the same. > At Oracle we build a binary distribution of OMPI that we test out on several > different versions of Linux. The key here is building on a machine that is >

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

On 02/01/2011 07:34 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: I'm getting a lot of push back from the SysAdmin folks claiming that OpenMPI is closely intertwined with the specific version of the operating system and/or other system software (i.e., Rocks on

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: > I'm getting a lot of push back from the SysAdmin folks claiming that OpenMPI > is closely intertwined with the specific version of the operating system > and/or other system software (i.e., Rocks on the clusters). I wouldn't say that

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: > I use OpenMPI on a variety of platforms: stand-alone servers running Solaris > on sparc boxes and Linux (mostly CentOS) on AMD/Intel boxes, also Linux > (again CentOS) on large clusters of AMD/Intel boxes. These platforms all > have

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

Am 01.02.2011 um 23:02 schrieb Jeffrey A Cummings: > I use OpenMPI on a variety of platforms: stand-alone servers running Solaris > on sparc boxes and Linux (mostly CentOS) on AMD/Intel boxes, also Linux > (again CentOS) on large clusters of AMD/Intel boxes. These platforms all > have some

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

Jeff, We have similar circumstances and have been able to install and use versions of openmpi newer than supplied with the OS. It is necessary to have some means of path management to ensure that applications build against the desired version of openmpi and run with the version of openmpi

Re: [OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

Jeff, We have 3 Rocks Clusters, while there is a default MPI with each Rocks Release, it is often behind the latest production release as you note. We typically install whatever OpenMPI version we want in a shared space and ignore the default installed with Rocks. Sometimes there standard

[OMPI users] How closely tied is a specific release of OpenMPI to the host operating system and other system software?

I use OpenMPI on a variety of platforms: stand-alone servers running Solaris on sparc boxes and Linux (mostly CentOS) on AMD/Intel boxes, also Linux (again CentOS) on large clusters of AMD/Intel boxes. These platforms all have some version of the 1.3 OpenMPI stream. I recently requested an