On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Chadalavada Kalyana Krishna wrote:
> 1) Endian conversion - Open MPI does automatic endian conversion as
> long as
> the size of the data types on the communicating nodes is equal. This
> support
> is fully qualified from v1.1. Is this a correct statement?
It should work, but it's not something we test very often. At one
point, it did work. :-)
> 2) Windows and *nix clusters - Is it possible to have a single MPI
> application spawned and executed across a cluster of mixed operating
> systems
> like Windows & other flavours of UNIX (Solaris, Linux, AIX) etc? My
> understanding is from MPICH2, using SMPD process manager, it is.
Aside from Windows, yes. As you noted in your second post, our
Windows support is incomplete.
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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