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• Known Issues

  • "1.7 series"

Developer Information

• Engineering / developer meetings

  • June 24-26, 2014, Chicago, IL USA
  • December 12-13, 2013, Chicago, IL USA
  • June 3-4, 2013, San Jose CA USA
  • December 2012, San Jose CA USA
  • June 6-8 2012, San Jose, CA USA
  • May 3-5 2011, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
  • Sep 8-10 2010, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Feb 25-27 2009, Louisville, KY, USA
  • Feb 11, 2009, San Jose, CA USA
  • Dec 2008, Menlo Park, CA, USA
    • Meeting notes
  • September 1-2 2008, Dublin, Ireland
  • mid-July 2008, Louisville, KY, USA
  • June-July 2008, Menlo Park, CA, USA

• 2014 SVN write access summer cleaning

• 2012 SVN write access summer cleaning

• Open MPI Portability

  • General notes on writing portable code
  • Escape sequences for printf()-like functions
  • Specific Ports:
    • Microsoft Windows
    • Cray XT-3/XT-4
  • Cross Compiling

• Features

  • Generic symbol visibility support
  • Heterogeneous support
  • multi-lib support
    • Creating wrapper compilers with 32 & 64 bit support
  • Fault Tolerance
    • Checkpoint/Restart Process Fault Tolerance
    • Multi Automatic Protocols Fault Tolerant Framework
    • On-the-fly Recovery with the Recovery Supervisor/Service (RecoS) Framework
  • IPv6 Support
  • Thread Safety Support
  • Implementing Progress Threads
  • OpenMPI and Process Affinity: A primer for the hopelessly confused
  • Modex-less Launches: How to get faster and more scalable launches
  • Process placement

• Using Trac and Subversion

  • How to make SVN commit messages affect Trac tickets
  • How to submit a bug or enhancement
  • How to submit a changeset move request (CMR)
  • How bugs will be managed by the Release Managers
  • How CMRs get processed by the Gatekeeper(s)

• Development Documents

  • Are you a new developer to the Open MPI project?
  • Open MPI project infrastructure
  • How to maintain a tmp branch (see also the Mercurial wiki page)
  • Mailing lists used by the Open MPI development team
  • Development Process
  • Coding Style
  • Developer Configure Options
  • Using Compiler Attributes
  • Development Docs
  • Importing 3rd Party Code into Open MPI
  • Technical Guidelines (draft)
  • Coverity Prevent web tool guidelines
  • Everything you wanted to know about linkers but were too afraid to ask
  • Open MPI's Certifying Authority SSL certificate (import this into your browser to avoid SSL certificate warnings)
  • How to write / add FAQ entries to the Open MPI web site
  • How to use Mercurial with Subversion for Open MPI development
  • The role of autogen.pl in components and frameworks
  • How to add a new component to Open MPI
  • How to add a new framework to Open MPI
  • How to add an experimental MPI interface in Open MPI
  • How to test a branch before merging back into trunk of Open MPI
  • Guidelines for MCA / MPI_T parameter levels

• Design Documents

  • CPU / Network Topology Description
  • BTL Semantics Description (or Discovery as the case may be)
  • Plans for extracting BTLs into an independent layer
  • Error Messages How to handle error messages in the Open MPI stack. Also known as OPAL_SOS
  • Network Failover Support for IB Networks
  • Hierarchical Topology Framework
  • Cray XE Port
  • Runtime Interposition Project (Code named: Pineapple)
  • ORTE Out-of-Band v2.0

• MPI Conformance

• Release documents

  • General information
    • Release methodology
    • Release procedures
      • Manual tests to conduct before releasing
    • Release Manager management of bugs (in general, may be superseded by individual release managers/series requirements)
    • How to submit Changeset Move Requests (CMRs)
  • v1.7 series

• Administrative documents

  • Administrative rules

• ORTE documents

  • Hostfile Usage Plan
  • Design for IOF 2.0

• Runtime environment

  • Requirements for a RTE used with Open MPI
  • Current state of the runtime
    • List of current frameworks and what they do, and diagram of how they interact
    • Sample use cases showing how frameworks are used
  • ORTE Scalability Plan and Measurements