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Open MPI developer wiki

This wiki is intended for the developers working on the internals of Open MPI itself. If you are a user or developer of MPI applications, this wiki likely doesn't have much information that is relevant for you.

Using Git and Github

Open MPI Git / Github usage:

• Initial Git setup
• Initial GitHub setup
• Open MPI's Git repositories on Github
• Open MPI Git best practices
• How to make Git (Github) commit messages affect Github issues
• How to submit a bug or enhancement
• How to submit a pull request (i.e., move code to a release branch)
• How to submit an RFC
• How bugs will be managed by the Release Managers
• How pull requests get processed by the Gatekeeper(s)
• How to test pull request with Jenkins
• How to use "bot:" commands in issues and pull requests
• Cheat sheet of Github emoji 👍

Generic Git information:

• Awesome flow chart on how to get out of Git messes
• "How to undo almost anything in Git"
• Visual Git cheatsheet

Development Documents

• DRAFT: User Migration Guide: 1.8.x and v1.10.x to v2.0.0
• DRAFT: Developer Migration Guide: v1.8.x and v1.10.x to v2.x
• Are you a new developer to the Open MPI project?
• Open MPI project infrastructure
• Mailing lists used by the Open MPI development team
• Development Process
• Coding Style
• Developer Configure Options
• Using Compiler Attributes
• Development Docs
• Technical Guidelines (draft)
• MPI Conformance
• Coverity Prevent web tool guidelines
• Everything you wanted to know about linkers but were too afraid to ask
• How to write / add FAQ entries to the Open MPI web site
• The role of autogen.pl in components and frameworks
• How to add a new component to Open MPI
• How to add a new framework to Open MPI
• How to add an experimental MPI interface in Open MPI
• Guidelines for MCA / MPI_T parameter levels
• Owners of each component (i.e., owner.txt file table)

Weekly Telecon Agendas / Meetings

• Weekly Telecons - 2016
• Weekly Telecons - 2015

Engineering / developer meetings

• Aug 16-18, 2016, Dallas, TX USA
  • Meeting Minutes - Geoff
• Feb 22-25, 2016, Dallas, TX USA
  • Meeting Minutes - Geoff
• June 22-25, 2015, San Jose, CA USA
• January 27-29, 2015, Dallas, TX USA
• June 24-26, 2014, Chicago, IL USA
• December 12-13, 2013, Chicago, IL USA
• June 3-4, 2013, San Jose CA USA
• December 2012, San Jose CA USA
• June 6-8 2012, San Jose, CA USA
• May 3-5 2011, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
• Sep 8-10 2010, Stuttgart, Germany
• Feb 25-27 2009, Louisville, KY, USA
• Feb 11, 2009, San Jose, CA USA
• Dec 2008, Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • Meeting notes
• September 1-2 2008, Dublin, Ireland
• mid-July 2008, Louisville, KY, USA
• June-July 2008, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Periodic maintenance / logistics

• 2014 SVN write access summer cleaning
• 2012 SVN write access summer cleaning

Open MPI Portability

• General notes on writing portable code
• Escape sequences for printf()-like functions

Features

• Generic symbol visibility support
• Heterogeneous support
• multi-lib support
  • Creating wrapper compilers with 32 & 64 bit support
• Fault Tolerance
  • Checkpoint/Restart Process Fault Tolerance
  • Multi Automatic Protocols Fault Tolerant Framework
  • On-the-fly Recovery with the Recovery Supervisor/Service (RecoS) Framework
• IPv6 Support
• Thread Safety Support
• Implementing Progress Threads
• OpenMPI and Process Affinity: A primer for the hopelessly confused
• Modex-less Launches: How to get faster and more scalable launches
• Process placement

Release documents

• General information
  • Release methodology
  • Release procedures
    • Manual tests to conduct before releasing
  • Release Manager management of bugs (in general, may be superseded by individual release managers/series requirements)
  • How to submit Pull Requests
• v1.7 series
• v2.x series

Administrative documents

• Administrative rules

Archived wiki pages

These wiki pages are probably very out of date, but kept for posterity.

• Archived wiki pages