From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Nov 18 02:25:36 2002
Subject: Re: RFC: Using Standard C++ library components in Octave
From: JD Cole <jdcole at san dot rr dot com>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:35:56 -0800

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On 17-Nov-2002, JD Cole <jdcole at san dot rr dot com> wrote:
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>| I have taken a 
>| look at Andy Jocabson's octave-mpi modification (thanks JWE)...but would 
>| like to take it a step further.
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>In what way?
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>I know that Andy's interface to MPI is fairly simple and limited, but
>it is a start.  I'm thinking of integrating it almost as-is (because
>it does seem to be useful) and then encouraging whoever is interested
>to make a more complete interface to the MPI library, at which point
>the type of interface that Andy contributed could probably be
>rewritten as a collection of M-files.  I think there has been some
>discussion about this kind of interface to MPI in the past, bt I've
>never seen any working code -- my apologies if I missed it.
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>jwe
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I have started integrating the octave-mpi code into the current latest 
CVS checkout, as of a few days ago as a learning tool, when I'm done I 
can send you the patches.

For the curious, here's a paper which describes bringing parallelism to 
the Matlab environment:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/menon97multimatlab.html


JD