[gmx-developers] new 64-bit int support and MPI

Alexey Shvetsov alexxy at omrb.pnpi.spb.ru
Tue Dec 24 14:04:31 CET 2013


Hi!

Actually its not that hard to install fresh mpi library. Personally i 
run OpenMpi 1.6 installed in ${HOME} on rhel 4 cluster (that runs on 
xeon 53xx).


Mark Abraham писал 24-12-2013 16:34:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm happy with the recent change to requiring 64-bit integers, but I
> note that this means we have required that the MPI library support the
> MPI_INT64_T datatype from MPI 2.2. AFAIK that's probably OK in
> practice, but I thought it worth mentioning / discussing.
> 
> We should update the install guide and add a CMake test for its
> support, however, since there will still be plenty of people with
> earlier non-compliant MPI libraries. I imagine CentOS will take about
> 5 years to update that far...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark

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Best Regards,
Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute, Gatchina, 
Russia
Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics
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Gentoo Linux Dev
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