Bug 203299 - Request: Replace lam with OpenMPI in core
Summary: Request: Replace lam with OpenMPI in core
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lam
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Doug Ledford
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Depends On: 213662
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-21 00:36 UTC by Jonathan Underwood
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-02-09 19:15:39 UTC
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Description Jonathan Underwood 2006-08-21 00:36:41 UTC
Description of problem:
The current situation is that the lam implementation of MPI is shipped as part
of Core, and OpenMPI is in Extras. However, the lam homepage states:

"LAM/MPI is now in a maintenance mode. Bug fixes and critical patches are still
being applied, but little real "new" work is happening in LAM/MPI. This is a
direct result of the LAM/MPI Team spending the vast majority of their time
working on our next-generation MPI implementation -- Open MPI"

Since Fedora policiy is to move with upstream, lam should be replaced with
OpenMPI in core.

Why do I care? Well, as one example, currently it is not possible to build and
ship the Valgrind OpenMPI wrappers, since this would need a
BuildRequires:openmpi in the Valgrind package, and Core packages cannot BR
Extras packages AFAIK.

(For info on the Valgrind MPI wrappers see:
http://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core.html#manual-core.mpiwrap)

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Comment 1 Doug Ledford 2006-08-28 23:22:44 UTC
I've started talking to people about doing this.  I'm not sure if it will make
fc6 or not.

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2006-09-13 19:23:08 UTC
I'd be happy to take lam into FE.

Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2007-02-09 19:15:39 UTC
OpenMPI is in core.


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