[mpich-devel] MPICH on Windows via WSL?

[Kenneth Raffenetti]

I have to admit I am curious about this as a dev environment. Would like 
to hear about experiences when folks get their hands on a working version.

Ken

On 04/06/2016 12:48 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Rob Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov
> <mailto: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.
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>     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 :-)
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>     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.
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> 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.
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> Jeff
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>     ==rob
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