Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required for PTP 6.0 installation. For more detailed information, including installation instructions, see http://wiki.eclipse.org/PTP/release_notes/6.0

PTP Client

PTP is now available as a single download package called Eclipse for Parallel Application Developers that includes all the pre-requisite components (apart from Java). This is the preferred method for obtaining PTP. The PTP package is available for the following platforms:

Operating System Architecture
Linux x86, x86_64
MacOS X (10.6 and later) x86, x86_64
Windows x86, x86_64

The Eclipse PTP client is also supported on any of the platforms that Eclipse supports, however installation is more complicated. More information on installing PTP from an update site can be found can be found here. Information on Eclipse supported platforms can be found here.

Target Systems

PTP supports the following target systems:

Operating System Architecture Debugging
Linux x86, x86_64, ppc gdb 6.3 and later
MacOS X (10.6 and later) x86, x86_64 gdb 6.3 and later

PTP also supports a number of parallel runtime systems and job schedulers. These need to be available on the target system prior to using PTP:

Job Scheduler/Runtime Version
IBM LoadLeveler Any
IBM Parallel Environment Any
SLURM Any
PBS Any
TORQUE Any
Grid Engine Any
Open MPI 1.3 or later
MPICH2 1.0.6p1 or later

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