Fedora 18 Update: openmpi-1.6.3-5.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18052
2012-11-12 18:29:07
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name        : openmpi
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.6.3
Release     : 5.fc18
URL         : http://www.open-mpi.org/
Summary     : Open Message Passing Interface
Description :
Open MPI is an open source, freely available implementation of both the
MPI-1 and MPI-2 standards, combining technologies and resources from
several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in
order to build the best MPI library available.  A completely new MPI-2
compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages for system and
software vendors, application developers, and computer science
researchers. For more information, see http://www.open-mpi.org/ .

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:

Add patch to detect ARM host type and use appropriate atomics
- Update to 1.6.3.  Version 1.6.3 is a minor bugfix release. All users are encouraged to upgrade to v1.6.3 when possible.
- Set enable-opal-multi-threads for IB support
- Update rpm macros to use the new module location

Here is a list of changes in v1.6.3 as compared to v1.6.2:

- Fix mpirun --launch-agent behavior when a prefix is specified.
- Fixed memchecker configury.
- Fix spawning from a singleton to multiple hosts when the "add-host" MPI_Info key is used.
- Add Mellanox ConnextIB IDs and max inline value.
- Fix rankfile when no -np is given.
- Improved collective algorithm selection for very large messages.
- Fix PSM MTL affinity settings.
- Fix issue with MPI_OP_COMMUTATIVE in the mpif.h bindings.  
- Fix issue with MPI_SIZEOF when using CHARACTER and LOGICAL types in the mpi module.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update openmpi' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------