[Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32 and 64-bit

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Additionally, you need to run the installer as admin since it installs
a daemon (I believe). I think it would make sense to put out two
version of Windows binaries (without MPI and with MS MPI) and then
include the MSMPI installer as a part of the installation process,
esp. since no other Windows MPI is officially supported any more.

Something to think about for 4.3, not sure I want to make the plunge
for 4.2 -- but we'll keep the options open :).

Utkarsh





On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov> wrote:
> Hi Utkarsh,
>
> I think it does implement MPI2. At least my codes make heavy use of MPI 2
> and it works fine. However, I'll look into it and report back.
>
> Microsoft's documentation says:
>
> You may also redistribute this MS-MPI installation package with your own
> applications, to facilitate having an application that can run on a
> stand-alone workstation and easily take advantage of an HPC Pack 2012
> R2-based cluster. Please refer to the license agreement for additional
> details.
>
>
> Sounds like if you use an installer it could handle the dependency.
>
> Burlen
>
>
> On 08/11/2014 08:03 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>
> The ParaView dev team switched from Open-MPI 1.6.2 backwards to 1.4.4,
> precisely because the support was dropped.
>
> That is correct. That's  precisely why we've stuck with 1.4.4. I spent
> a lot of time trying to packing 1.6.* on Windows to no success and
> then decided to just stick with 1.4.4.
>
> Problem is that the source code for the current MS-MPI builds does not seem
> to be publicly available,
>
> The problem with using MS-MPI is two fold:
> 1. I can't remember if its support MPIv2 API. I don't think so, but I
> may be wrong.
> 2. The license (at least when I checked) doesn't allow us to packing
> the dlls in our binaries. In other words, we would always have to have
> the user manually install using the installer distributed by MS.
>
> Utkarsh
>
>