WHAT: Deprecate the "rankfile" component in the v1.5 series; remove it in the 1.7 series
WHY: It's old, creaky, and difficult to maintain. It'll require maintenance someday soon, when we support hardware / hyperthreads in OMPI.
WHERE: svn rm orte/mca/rmaps/rank_file
WHEN: Deprecate in 1.5, remove in 1.7.
TIMEOUT: Teleconf on Tue, 27 April 2010
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Now that we have nice paffinity binding options, can we deprecate rankfile in the 1.5 series and remove it in 1.7?
I only ask because it's kind of a pain to maintain. It's not a huge deal, but Ralph and I were talking about another paffinity issue today and we both groaned at the prospect of extending rank file to support hyperthreads (and/or boards). Perhaps it should just go away...?
Pro: less maintenance, especially since the original developers no longer maintain it
Con: it's the only way to have completely custom affinity bindings (i.e., outside of our pre-constructed "bind to socket", "bind to core", etc. options). ...do any other MPI's offer completely custom binding options? I.e., do any real users care?
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