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Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks
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Do we need to Suggest: Rmpi? #487

Closed krivit closed 1 year ago

krivit commented 1 year ago

It's a hassle to install on some systems, and we don't actually have any particular accommodations or tests for it, since we access it through the standard parallel package API.

handcock commented 1 year ago

I suggest getting rid of it. I find the "PSOCK" is adequate for most UNIX-like systems in addition to working on Windows. MPI has become more fragile on UNIX-like systems over time and, at this point, is very much a specialist choice for ergm users.

krivit commented 1 year ago

On deeper look, we do have an MPI test, though its disabled unless a special setting is enabled. However, since package code doesn't actually handle MPI any differently from other parallel APIs, there isn't really a point to keeping that test either.