PMIx Standard

PMIx is an application programming interface (API) standard to provide High Performance Computing (HPC) libraries and programming models with portable and well-defined access to commonly available distributed computing system services.

This repository contains the LaTeX source for the PMIx standard document and discussions regarding the PMIx standard.

Contributing to the PMIx Standard

We welcome participation in development of the PMIx Standard. To find out more about how to participate, visit our web site at https://pmix.org/

On the web site, you will find background documents and publications, and information about joining our mailing lists, meetings, and working groups. Additionally, you will find our governance document, The PMIx Standard Governance Rules, which describes rules for participation and making changes to the PMIx Standard. The governance document includes instructions for how to raise questions about the standard as well as how to propose changes to the standard.

Building the PMIx Standard

Building with Docker

The community maintains a Docker container image that can be used to build the standard using the included script. This is the same container image that is used in CI.

./bin/build-with-docker.sh

Building on Your System

• If you are building on Ubuntu then take a look at this Dockerfile
• If you are building on Mac OSX start with MacTeX then add the rest of the dependencies:

  # Mac only
  brew install python pygments
  # Python3 install
  sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools
  sudo pip3 install Pygments