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| author | Nithin Senthil Kumar <sk95.nithin@gmail.com> | 2020-11-19 07:47:57 -0500 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-11-19 13:47:57 +0100 |
| commit | 5129d84304035622d84ac61139625e4a88a686de (patch) | |
| tree | b853fa898eec43795eb79d435b1a4aec4c7b3b08 /var | |
| parent | 14a9359395e9e50536c4629159c1a08fc763e4c5 (diff) | |
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mvapich2: extended the fabrics variant description (#19860)
The point of this variant is to give the end user an option to use system
installed fabrics such as mofed instead of upstream fabrics such as rdma-core.
This was found to avoid run time errors on some systems.
Co-authored-by: nithintsk <nithintsk@github.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'var')
| -rw-r--r-- | var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mvapich2/package.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mvapich2/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mvapich2/package.py index 3031082ee7..b2c412aea7 100644 --- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mvapich2/package.py +++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mvapich2/package.py @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class Mvapich2(AutotoolsPackage): networks (InfiniBand, Omni-Path, Ethernet/iWARP, and RoCE) and computing platforms (x86 (Intel and AMD), ARM and OpenPOWER)""" - homepage = "http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/" + homepage = "http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/userguide/userguide_spack/" url = "http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/download/mvapich/mv2/mvapich2-2.3.4.tar.gz" list_url = "http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/downloads/" @@ -83,7 +83,12 @@ class Mvapich2(AutotoolsPackage): variant( 'fabrics', - description='The fabric enabled for this build', + description='Select the fabric to be enabled for this build.' + 'If you have verbs (either from OFED or MOFED), PSM or PSM2 ' + 'installed on the system already, you may need to setup external ' + 'packages in the package.yaml file for rdma-core, psm or opa-psm2. ' + 'This is recommended to avoid unexpected runtime failures. For ' + 'more info, visit the homepage url.', default='mrail', values=( 'psm', 'psm2', 'sock', 'nemesisib', 'nemesis', 'mrail', |