[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: pvserver and mpi

[Scott, W Alan]

The more I think about this, I wonder if the answer is no?  After all, you would want the sbatch and srun to come from the same version of MPI that is linked into the application, would't you?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Boeckel [mailto:ben.boeckel at kitware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 11:38 AM
> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] pvserver and mpi
> 
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 19:23:20 +0000, Scott, W Alan wrote:
> > I remember a thread from a few weeks ago that the current Linux
> > distribution has built in MPI.  Is this correct?  Does this mean a
> > user can use the Kitware binaries on a cluster, without rebuilding?
> 
> Theoretically, yes? Though I'd expect most clusters to have their own,
> better-tuned MPI builds you'd want to prefer to a stock mpich build.
> 
> --Ben