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I do have to weigh in that in the "real" HPC world, either modules or |
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softenv out of ANL [ http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/systems/software/msys/ ] |
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are the way to do things. |
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I understand Donnie's statement and do thing that the "Gentoo way" needs to |
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be solved as well. However, any cluster solution really should include |
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either modules or softenv. |
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Donnie Berkholz said the following on 2006-02-12 16:57: |
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> Andrew D. Fant wrote: |
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>> I think the real solution here is to use modules ( |
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>> http://modules.sourceforge.net ) to handle the different versions of |
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>> mpi. I filed a bug about using this for switching alternate virtuals a |
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>> couple years ago, but nobody seemed to be particularly interested. I've |
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>> got a grad student working on something to let users switch between mpi |
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>> for gcc and mpi for the portland group compilers. I am most certainly |
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>> not the right person to do the heavy lifting on this, but I do have an |
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>> ebuild for modules I could contribute to the cause. |
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> That is an idea that's been brought up on the bug, but we need something |
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> that integrates into the Gentoo framework for switching things around: |
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> eselect [1]. |
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> Perhaps one could create an eselect wrapper around modules. It certainly |
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> couldn't hurt to take a look at modules (via your ebuild) and see |
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> whether we could adapt it to our needs. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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> 1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/ |
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