[Users] Enabling CUDA/OpenCL thorns by default in Simfactory?

Steven R. Brandt sbrandt at cct.lsu.edu
Wed May 28 06:27:36 CDT 2014


On 05/28/2014 07:08 AM, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:24:59AM -0400, Steven R. Brandt wrote:
>> I think that processing things inside comments is confusing (if
>> that's what's happening), unless there's some special tag in the
>> comment, e.g. @@. Wouldn't it make more sense for SimFactory to
>> accept the list of uncommented thorns, and disable if appropriate?
> The problem with that is that this thornlist would then not work without
> simfactory on most machines.
>
> Frank
>
I see the enabling/disabling of thorns like CUDA and MPI as part of the 
configuration process, just like deciding what compiler flags to use. On 
most machines you will fight hard to get the configuration right without 
Simfactory, and it's not much different than that.

Cheers,
Steve


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