Charm++ parallel programming system

[Jeff Hammond <jeff.science AT gmail.com>]

I am working on Travis CI support for the PRKs (https://github.com/ParRes/Kernels), which depend upon many parallel runtimes, one of which is Charm++.

It's trivial to get MPI-3 via the package manager or a third-party deb file (e.g. https://github.com/jeffhammond/oshmpi/blob/master/travis/install-deps.sh).  However, I don't see any binaries on your website and http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/distrib/charm-6.6.1.tar.gz is a relatively massive download.

So the first question is: is anyone creating Charm++ deb files?

Second, is there a Charm++ "lite" download that is not 120MB?  Frankly, I don't know how your download can be that large if it is only source files.  MPICH is only 11 MB (http://www.mpich.org/downloads/).

I'd like to not have to roll my own "lite" version of Charm++ that I have to manually sync with upstream.  It's more likely that we just won't be able to enable CI support for the Charm++ implementations of the PRKs if a more efficient installation is not possible.

Maybe there is a Charm++ lite download hiding somewhere that I was just too dumb to find.

Thanks,

Jeff

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Jeff Hammond
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