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

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Aurélien Larcher <
aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz at gmx.de>
> wrote:
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>> I just realised that we have
>>
>> library/mpich/gcc
>> library/mpich/gcc/modulefiles
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>> and
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>> library/openmpi/gcc
>> library/openmpi/gcc/modulefiles
>>
>> 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.
>
> +tested


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>>
>> Regards
>> Andreas
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