From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Feb 2 09:33:52 2001 Subject: Re: MPI From: Andy Jacobson To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu CC: Alex Verstak Date: 02 Feb 2001 10:33:37 -0500 >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Verstak writes: Alex> What happened to the MPI bindings for Octave? I saw a Alex> posting of some source Nov 2000, but apparently it didn't Alex> make it into the mainstream. I am the author of those patches. I put up a web page at "http://corto.icg.to.infn.it/andy/octave-mpi/" that discusses the issues. I haven't bothered to make patches against 2.0.32 or 2.0.33, but it should be trivial to do so. I have had email correspondence with three people who have played with it. I'm not sure what John Eaton wants to do with such parallelization schemes; perhaps he is just waiting to see whether there is sufficient interest before committing. Alex> Is there any interest in MPI? I put together a quick and Alex> dirty binding and am wondering whether or not I should make Alex> it good and post the source. If there is enough interest, I Alex> will; if not, I won't. I'd be interested in combining our efforts to make a more robust patch. Did you by any chance try compiling with my patches? I'm curious to see whether it works transparently under MPICH. At one point I was trying (and failing) to get ScaLAPACK to compile on my system to see whether I could link its MPI-parallelized routines into Octave. I still think this would be an interesting thing to try. -Andy -- andy-jacobson at psu dot edu ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------