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Date:      Thu, 4 May 2006 13:57:17 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrade Tool
Message-ID:  <20060504185717.GA1656@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060504183936.GC28973@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <44538D42.8030301@chrismaness.com> <200605010901.50654.aren.tyr@gawab.com> <20060501091523.GA38820@pentarou.parodius.com> <200605021827.34873.aren.tyr@gawab.com> <20060504094155.GC984@roadrunner.q.local> <20060504165727.GA67780@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060504183936.GC28973@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:39:36AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> With MPI based parallel code there are times where I think a flavor
> system might scale better, but I haven't done the work to expose the
> non-scaling yet.  The problem is that we've got ~5 versions of MPI
> in the tree, but each one of those really should be buildable with
> different C and Fortran compilers so you could easily see 50+ MPIs.
> Multiple each applicaiton by that and things get crazy. :)

Don't forget to buy us another dozen or so machines for each of our
architectures, and a pallet-load of disks, so we can handle all of this.
(Hint: we don't have enough disk either on pointyhat or the ftp machines
as it is.)

mcl



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