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From: Tim Prince (tprince_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-13 12:28:32


Tim Prince wrote:

>I don't think any MPI for x86-64 has a way to sense automatically
>whether to run in 32- or 64-bit mode, which is among the features
>promised for proprietary mpich2 on Windows. If you mix them up, your
>processes typically hang suspended, with no diagnostics.
>
>
Intel MPI mpiexec python script on x86-64 is supposed to determine
whether to run the 32- or 64-bit MPI, so there are existing examples of
scripting for this purpose.