Sorry for the lack of postings recently.
But I have had the opportunity to look at the documentation support for
some of the other MPI distributions. In particular, the LAM/MPI
documentation seems the most interesting so far.
http://www.lam-mpi.org/using/docs/
They provide a User Guide
http://www.lam-mpi.org/download/files/7.1.4-user.pdf
an Installation Guide
http://www.lam-mpi.org/download/files/7.1.4-install.pdf
and a number of internal API guides.
The User Guide chapters include
- Release Notes
- Getting Started
- Supported MPI Functionality
- System Services Interface Overview (is there an Open MPI
equivalent?)
- Command-line Quick Reference
- Information about internal modules
- Debugging with TotalView and other debuggers
- Troubleshooting
- Misc details
The whole thing, in pdf is about 120 pages.
How close does this outline fit into Open MPI? How much internal
details would be useful to users?
They also have some LAM/MPI specific tutorials at
http://www.lam-mpi.org/tutorials/
All of this looks like an interesting model to follow.
Comments?