From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Feb  2 18:26:16 2001
Subject: Re: MPI
From: Alex Verstak <averstak at vt dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:24:27 -0500 (EST)


Our philosophies are sufficiently different.  You are letting
a single user control multiple processors, while I am making
low-level MPI bindings to be used by functions (non-interactively).
We are doing totally different things.

=alex


On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Andy Jacobson wrote:
> >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Verstak <averstak at vt dot edu> 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
> 
> 
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