On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Am 19.03.17 um 18:44 schrieb Aurélien Larcher: > > > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Am 19.03.17 um 18:40 schrieb Aurélien Larcher: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I just realised that we have >>> >>> library/mpich/gcc >>> library/mpich/gcc/modulefiles >>> >>> and >>> >>> library/openmpi/gcc >>> library/openmpi/gcc/modulefiles >>> >>> Even their package descriptions are similar. What are the differences >>> and do we need both? >>> >> >> Two different implementations of MPI. >> Parallel code is better against more than one implementation. >> >> Ok, one more question: The modulefiles packages seem to only provide >> paths, no real contents. Is that intentionally? >> > > It is incorrect, they provide environment-modules configuration files. > > Ah, ok. I was irritated. Thanks. > If you install environment-modules and call module avail you can see the modules present on the system. Each module corresponds to a module file. It is a convenient way to deliver different implementations and/or versions of the same software without enforcing anything system-wide. This is the common way of delivering software packages on supercomputers. > >> >> >> >>> >>> Regards >>> Andreas >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> oi-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> --- >> Praise the Caffeine embeddings >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> oi-dev mailing >> [email protected]https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list >> [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > -- > --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing > [email protected]https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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