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OpenMPI

OpenMPI is a software module available on Comet.

OpenMPI overview

To access OpenMPI on Comet, run module load OpenMPI. This will load the default version of OpenMPI.

An overview of the module information is shown below (module -r spider ^OpenMPI$):

OpenMPI:
    Description:
      The Open MPI Project is an open source MPI-3 implementation.

     Versions:
        OpenMPI/4.1.5-GCC-12.3.0
        OpenMPI/4.1.6-GCC-13.2.0
        OpenMPI/5.0.3-GCC-13.3.0
        OpenMPI/5.0.8

  For detailed information about a specific "OpenMPI" package (including how to load the modules) use the module's full name.
  Note that names that have a trailing (E) are extensions provided by other modules.
  For example:

     $ module spider OpenMPI/5.0.8

If there are multiple versions of OpenMPI listed, then you can load a specific version as follows:

$ module load OpenMPI/version_string

You can find the most up to date information whilst logged on to Comet by running module -r spider ^OpenMPI$.


OpenMPI Help

The module OpenMPI has the following embedded help text (module help OpenMPI):

Description
===========
The Open MPI Project is an open source MPI-3 implementation.

More information
================
 - Homepage: https://www.open-mpi.org/


OpenMPI Dependencies

The default version of the module OpenMPI has the following dependencies:

  • GCC/14.2.0
  • AOCC/5.0.0

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