From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Feb  1 21:12:57 2001
Subject: MPI
From: Alex Verstak <averstak at vt dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:11:08 -0500 (EST)


What happened to the MPI bindings for Octave?  I saw a posting
of some source Nov 2000, but apparently it didn't make it into
the mainstream.

Is there any interest in MPI?  I put together a quick and dirty
binding and am wondering whether or not I should make it good
and post the source.  If there is enough interest, I will; if
not, I won't.

My binding is different from that of Nov 2000.  I didn't do
anything fancy; just made .oct files for MPI_Send and company
and added three lines to octave.cc for initialization (MPI_Init
didn't work from an .oct file).  It works with MPICH on a cluster.
It's fairly straightforward to add --with-mpi to configure, so
this shouldn't cause any problems to maintainers.

Tell me what you think,
=alex



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