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<h1><span class="section-number">3.2. </span>General notes<a class="headerlink" href="#general-notes" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>The following list of release notes applies to this code base as of
this writing:</p>
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<li><p>Open MPI now includes two public software layers: MPI and OpenSHMEM.
Throughout this document, references to Open MPI implicitly include
both of these layers. When distinction between these two layers is
necessary, we will reference them as the “MPI” and “OpenSHMEM”
layers respectively.</p></li>
<li><p>OpenSHMEM is a collaborative effort between academia, industry, and
the U.S. Government to create a specification for a standardized API
for parallel programming in the Partitioned Global Address Space
(PGAS). For more information about the OpenSHMEM project, including
access to the current OpenSHMEM specification, please visit
<a class="reference external" href="http://openshmem.org/">http://openshmem.org/</a>.</p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This OpenSHMEM implementation will only work in Linux
environments with a restricted set of supported networks.</p>
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<li><p>Open MPI includes support for a wide variety of supplemental
hardware and software packages. When configuring Open MPI, you may
need to supply additional flags to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">configure</span></code> script in order
to tell Open MPI where the header files, libraries, and any other
required files are located. As such, running <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">configure</span></code> by itself
may not include support for all the devices (etc.) that you expect,
especially if their support headers / libraries are installed in
non-standard locations. Network interconnects are an easy example
to discuss — Libfabric and OpenFabrics networks, for example, both
have supplemental headers and libraries that must be found before
Open MPI can build support for them. You must specify where these
files are with the appropriate options to configure. See the
listing of configure command-line switches, below, for more details.</p></li>
<li><p>The majority of Open MPI’s documentation is here in this document.
The man pages are also installed by default.</p></li>
<li><p>Note that Open MPI documentation uses the word “component”
frequently; the word “plugin” is probably more familiar to most
users. As such, end users can probably completely substitute the
word “plugin” wherever you see “component” in our documentation.
For what it’s worth, we use the word “component” for historical
reasons, mainly because it is part of our acronyms and internal API
function calls.</p></li>
<li><p>Open MPI has taken some steps towards <a class="reference external" href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">Reproducible Builds</a>. Specifically, Open MPI’s
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">configure</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span></code> process, by default, records the build date
and some system-specific information such as the hostname where Open
MPI was built and the username who built it. If you desire a
Reproducible Build, set the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$USER</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$HOSTNAME</span></code> environment variables before invoking <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">configure</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span></code>, and Open MPI will use those values instead of invoking
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">whoami</span></code> and/or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostname</span></code>, respectively. See
<a class="reference external" href="https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/">https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/</a> for
information on the expected format and content of the
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</span></code> variable.</p></li>
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