[mpich-devel] MPICH on Windows via WSL?

[Jeff Hammond]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Rob Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On 04/06/2016 01:52 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
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>> I am still figuring out how to get it,
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> it's not available yet.
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Good to know I am not stupid for not being able to find it.


> when it /is/ available, I'm betting Pavan is going to fire the first
> person who wastes any time on building/testing it.
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I don't have to worry about that problem, at least until Min masters
diagrammatic perturbation theory :-)


> Windows Services for UNIX and the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem have been
> options for a long time.  They did not make "port MPICH to windows"
> trivial.  I suspect neither will WSL, though it takes a distinctly
> different approach.
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I am more optimistic.  Maybe there will be some issues with hostname
resolution as there are today with VPNs and such, but if they make good on
the publicity, _compiling_ MPICH should not be an issue.

My motivation for getting this to work is that I have to shut my laptop for
the first and last 20 minutes of every flight I take, whereas the tablet
users get to keep theirs out end-to-end.  If I can get a *nix terminal on a
tablet, I'll be able to write that many more hours of MPI-3 code every
year.  Plus, even if I could get a BSD terminal on iPad that way I can on a
Mac Air, it supports the wrong ISA.  Fortunately, Microsoft Surface already
supports the ISA of champions, so I just need to solve the software problem.

Jeff


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