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> Would it be possible to have this platform test Boost with MPI enabled,
> preferably with IBM's MPI?  Results for the parallel parts of Boost.Graph
> are useful to have on this compiler because of its use by many
> supercomputers.  Thank you.
>
 
The IBM MPI compiler is available on the machine we use for Boost result reporting. At one point we did experiment with enabling the Boost.MPI runs for IBM's MPI compiler however the Boost MPI toolset had trouble configuring the IBM MPI compiler. If I recall correctly the MPI toolset expected some type of compiler option that showed the location of the MPI headers and libraries but the IBM MPI compiler did not provide any options that proved useful.

In the short term, I was wondering if we should just modify our local copy of the mpCC script to print the information in a form that could be consumed by the Boost MPI toolset. Are the options some combination of: -showme:compile, -showme:link, -showme, -show, -compile_info and -link_info?

In parallel, I can work with the POE team to see if we can get something more official added to the IBM MPI wrapper scripts.

Chris Cambly
XL C++ Compiler Development