A new version of MpCCI (3.0.5) has been released. See www.mpcci.org for more details. Many things changed — in particular, the MpCCI library itself should be much more encapsulated so that it should be completely independent of the MPI version used within the application program.

However, owing to licensing problems, the new version could not yet be tested on the HPC systems of RRZE … Well, the solution was rather trivial: the license file did not contain the FQN of the server and therefore checking out or even testing the license from a remote host did not work if the FQN was used there, i.e. the solution was just to replace the shortend hostname by the full hostname (including domain) or also possible by the IP address. After restarting the license server, the licensensing problems disappeard

In the meantime (early August 2006), MpCCI 3.0.5 is also available on the LRZ machines …

However, there seem to be still some problems on the application side — probably not a big surprise as the internal structure of MpCCI 3.0.5 and the API have completely changed …

… especially on SGI Altix systems (or other machines where CPUsets are used), a start mechanism based on ssh cannot be used as CPUsets would be escaped and “batch” processes start running on interactive/boot CPUsets …