[oi-dev] difference between mpich and openmpi packages?

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 19.03.17 um 18:40 schrieb Aurélien Larcher:
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> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz at gmx.de>
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>> I just realised that we have
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>> library/mpich/gcc
>> library/mpich/gcc/modulefiles
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>> and
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>> library/openmpi/gcc
>> library/openmpi/gcc/modulefiles
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>> Even their package descriptions are similar. What are the differences and
>> do we need both?
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> Two different implementations of MPI.
> Parallel code is better against more than one implementation.
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> Ok, one more question: The modulefiles packages seem to only provide
> paths, no real contents. Is that intentionally?
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It is incorrect, they provide environment-modules configuration files.

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>> Regards
>> Andreas
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