On Apr 11, 2016, at 2:38 PM, dpchoudh . <dpcho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If the vendor of a new type of fabric wants to include support for OpenMPI, > then, as long as they can implement a libfabric provider, they can use the > OFI MTL without adding any code to the OpenMPI source tree itself.
If you implement the tag matching interface in libfabric, that is likely a true statement. > Is the above statement correct? Note that I am trying to contrast against the > other possibility, implementing a BTL, that does not add anything to the > libfabrics source tree but adds to OpenMPI source tree instead. That's another way to go. E.g., that's what we did with the Cisco usNIC devices (because our devices do not yet support the libfabric tag matching interface). -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
