[mpiwg-sessions] Multiple MPI implementations in a single process - Application composition

[Jeff Hammond]

You can probably do this today with wi4mpi (
https://github.com/cea-hpc/wi4mpi).

Jeff

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Vallee, Geoffroy R. <valleegr at ornl.gov>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> To follow up on a discussion we had a few weeks ago, here is a brief
> description of a use case where multiple implementations of MPI could be
> used by a single process. This is more an illustration of the idea rather
> than a detailed description of a model.
>
> Let’s assume we are composing a multi-physics applications where each
> kernel, that has been developed separately, is an MPI application and
> requires a specific implementation of MPI (e.g., it requires a customized
> flavor of Trilinos, ultimately creating a dependency to OpenMPI). Let’s
> also assume that a composition library is based MPI sessions and rely on a
> specific implementation of MPI. It is then possible to compose the
> multi-physics application by coupling the two MPI codes with the
> composition library, the two MPI implementations being potentially
> different, in which case a single process is, in fact, using two different
> MPI implementations.
>
> Let me know if you have any question.
>
> Thanks,
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