On Sep 20, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Ken Mighell wrote: > Has there been any consideration of porting OpenMPI to the ARM processor?
I don't believe that anyone is actively working on this, but I could be wrong. > Plans are afoot to launch 7 ARM processors on a "Stage Coach" card in a 3U > CubeSat. NASA's NMP (New Millennium Program) ST-8 (Space Technology 8) > DM (Dependable Multiprocessor) uses OpenMPI as the foundation for its > fault-tolerant cluster middleware. Thus the enquiry about the status of > OpenMPI > with the ARM architecture. Patches would be welcome! :-) I believe that the first step would be to get some assembly for the ARM platform for some of OMPI's key routines (locks, atomics, etc.). Beyond that, it *might* "just work"...? -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
