[Bug 676879] Review Request: mpiexec - MPI job launcher that uses the PBS task interface directly

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Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi> changed:

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--- Comment #18 from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi> 2012-03-25 13:40:28 EDT ---
Hmm, this seems a rather nontrivial review, at least properly done.

As noted above by Doug in comment #11, the applicability of the package is
rather limited. I find it hard to imagine that anyone would run a cluster with
current Fedora (or RHEL) and use an antique queueing system that doesn't have
out-of-the-box support for MPI, as there are other queue managers (and MPI
libraries) which handle this without problems.

This being said, if there is enough interest, the package can of course be
included in Fedora. But for a good review to take place, the reviewer should
also test if the program works (which, admittedly, doesn't always happen).

Although I'm a heavy user of clusters and queue systems (and have had a hand in
writing the Fedora MPI guidelines), I lack the knowledge to properly review
this package.

IMHO, this package is a curiosity, and can be said to be obsolete.

If you (or someone else) ends up packaging this in Fedora, the name needs to be
changed, 'mpiexec' is just too general. To reflect the use case of the package,
something like pbs-mpiexec or torque-mpiexec (or -mpich) would be far more
suitable and less prone to cause problems.

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