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openmpi/ompi/mca/rte
Ralph Castain 552c9ca5a0 George did the work and deserves all the credit for it. Ralph did the merge, and deserves whatever blame results from errors in it :-)
WHAT:    Open our low-level communication infrastructure by moving all necessary components (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool) down in OPAL

All the components required for inter-process communications are currently deeply integrated in the OMPI layer. Several groups/institutions have express interest in having a more generic communication infrastructure, without all the OMPI layer dependencies.  This communication layer should be made available at a different software level, available to all layers in the Open MPI software stack. As an example, our ORTE layer could replace the current OOB and instead use the BTL directly, gaining access to more reactive network interfaces than TCP.  Similarly, external software libraries could take advantage of our highly optimized AM (active message) communication layer for their own purpose.  UTK with support from Sandia, developped a version of Open MPI where the entire communication infrastucture has been moved down to OPAL (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool). Most of the moved components have been updated to match the new schema, with few exceptions (mainly BTLs where I have no way of compiling/testing them). Thus, the completion of this RFC is tied to being able to completing this move for all BTLs. For this we need help from the rest of the Open MPI community, especially those supporting some of the BTLs.  A non-exhaustive list of BTLs that qualify here is: mx, portals4, scif, udapl, ugni, usnic.

This commit was SVN r32317.
2014-07-26 00:47:28 +00:00
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base rte_base_frame.c: add sanity check to ensure proper sizes 2014-04-30 22:12:54 +00:00
orte George did the work and deserves all the credit for it. Ralph did the merge, and deserves whatever blame results from errors in it :-) 2014-07-26 00:47:28 +00:00
configure.m4 Move the RTE framework change into the trunk. With this change, all non-CR 2013-01-27 23:25:10 +00:00
Makefile.am Fix longstanding issue with our multi-project support. Rather than using 2014-01-07 22:11:15 +00:00
rte.h Per the developer conference, let's be a little nicer during MPI_Finalize and ease up on the cpu by inserting usleep into the loop over opal_progress while waiting for the RTE barrier to complete. This is a non-performant area of the code, and while most codes may call finalize at close-to-similar times, there are some that may choose to have one or more procs continue to perform some work prior to finalizing. 2014-06-24 21:59:50 +00:00