[pooma-dev] error in downloadable cheetah package

[Jeffrey D. Oldham]

Steve Nolen wrote:

>should i even be using cheetah for communications?  i thought this was the
>preferred path.  is pooma's internal message passing sufficient?
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Cheetah is still supported by POOMA, but it is stable.  No development 
has happened for several years.  Thus, POOMA + Cheetah should still work 
and will continue to work for the foreseeable future.

MPI support for POOMA was recently added.  To use it, configure POOMA 
with the '--mpi' option, not the '--messaging' Cheetah option.  One can 
search the POOMA source code for 'POOMA_MPI' to see the places that have 
been modified.

As a conservative user, I usually recommend using a configuration that 
currently works well rather than switching to a newer version.  Thus, I 
suggest continuing to use Cheetah unless you expect some advantage 
unknown to me from switching.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey D. Oldham [mailto:oldham at codesourcery.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 4:28 PM
>To: Steve Nolen
>Cc: Pooma
>Subject: Re: [pooma-dev] error in downloadable cheetah package
>
>
>Steve Nolen wrote:
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>>line 224 of MatchingHandler/MatchingAction.h should have "extra_m", not
>>"extra"
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>Thank you for using Cheetah and for the error report.  Cheetah is not
>under active development so incorporating this correction in the release
>is unlikely to happen in the near future.
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Jeffrey D. Oldham
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