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Three MPI stacks are included in this release of OFED:
- MVAPICH 1.1.0-3143
-- Open MPI 1.3.4
+- Open MPI 1.4
- MVAPICH2 1.2p1
Setup, compilation and run information of MVAPICH, Open MPI and MVAPICH2 is
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Open MPI is a next-generation MPI implementation from the Open MPI
-Project (http://www.open-mpi.org/). Version 1.3.4 of Open MPI is
+Project (http://www.open-mpi.org/). Version 1.4 of Open MPI is
included in this release, which is also available directly from the
main Open MPI web site.
Example 1: Running the OSU bandwidth:
- > cd /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.3.4/tests/osu_benchmarks-3.0
+ > cd /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.4/tests/osu_benchmarks-3.0
> mpirun -np <N> -hostfile <HOSTFILE> osu_bw
Example 2: Running the Intel MPI Benchmark benchmarks:
- > cd /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.3.4/tests/IMB-3.1
+ > cd /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.4/tests/IMB-3.1
> mpirun -np <N> -hostfile <HOSTFILE> IMB-MPI1
--> Note that the version of IMB-EXT that ships in this version of
Example 3: Running the Presta benchmarks:
- > cd /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.3.4/tests/presta-1.4.0
+ > cd /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.4/tests/presta-1.4.0
> mpirun -np <N> -hostfile <HOSTFILE> com -o 100
3.5 More Open MPI Information
** Changelog summary
-Showing versions 1.2.7 - 1.3.4; see the "NEWS" file in an Open MPI
+Showing versions 1.2.7 - 1.4; see the "NEWS" file in an Open MPI
distribution for the full list.
+1.4
+---
+
+The *only* change in the Open MPI v1.4 release (as compared to v1.3.4)
+was to update the embedded version of Libtool's libltdl to address a
+potential security vulnerability. Specifically: Open MPI v1.3.4 was
+created with GNU Libtool 2.2.6a; Open MPI v1.4 was created with GNU
+Libtool 2.2.6b. There are no other changes between Open MPI v1.3.4
+and v1.4.
+
+
1.3.4
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