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Hi all, |
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One thing we really, really need to get working is allowing multiple MPI |
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implementations to be installed at once and having a tool to switch |
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between them at two levels: system, and per-user [1]. |
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The system level could operate via symlinks where needed and system |
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variables such as LDPATH in /etc/env.d/, and the per-user level would |
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have to operate using purely user-level environment variables. |
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In my opinion, this is the single biggest thing we need right now to |
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make Gentoo better for clustering, particularly as we start adding more |
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MPI implementations such as mpich2 and open-mpi. |
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I've spoken to a few people about making this happen in the past, but |
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they all seem to have disappeared. Would anyone like to take this task on? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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1. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44132 |
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