If there is enough interest in a repository for MPI codes / examples,
we (Indiana University) would be happy to host a community-run wiki,
subversion, or whatever. We have more than enough bandwidth and disk
space available. If the group here decides that this would be a Good
Thing, and a few people would volunteer to maintain the content, we're
happy to provide the hosting services free of charge. Contact me
off-list for more details.
I think that such a repository would be appropriate to be a separate
web site from LAM and Open MPI.
Aside: Somewhat surprisingly, we don't have a lot of code to contribute
-- mainly because we concentrate on *implementing* and *testing* MPI,
not so much writing real-world applications. :-)
On Jan 5, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Phil Ehrens wrote:
> Hugh Merz wrote:
>>
>> As well as this many research codes are still closed, in that they are
>> owned by commercial entities, government agencies and academics who
>> are
>> unwilling to share source due to the amount of time (money) invested
>> in
>> them. Having an open source repository would help to reduce overlap
>> in
>> development (I bet many graduate students have effectively written the
>> same program!) and provide incentive for groups who are fearful of
>> losing
>> their edge to take the lead and put their code out there. Then again
>> maybe I'm living in a naive fantasy world.
>
> Ouch! Ouch! Academics are, in my experience, very happy to share
> their code. Often, believe it or not, they simply don't think
> that they are doing anything of general interest in the coding
> area, and don't bother to make a big deal out of what they consider
> only a means to an end.
>
> As you syggest, many grad students and post-docs reproduce the
> work of others endlessly from scratch, but that is not necessarily
> a bad thing ;^)
>
> Anyway, I am going way off topic. End of rant.
>
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