From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Nov 18 11:52:50 2002
Subject: parallel octave (was Re: RFC: Using Standard C++ ...)
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
To: JD Cole <jdcole at san dot rr dot com>
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>,    octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu,    Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@higuchi.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:52:37 -0500

Hayato Fujiwara of Tohoku University, Japan also has an oct-file extension
which allows distributed processing:

	http://www.higuchi.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/octave/

He does not rely on MPI but instead rolls his own from sockets.  He provides
connect, send, recv, reval, close.

Paul Kienzle
pkienzle at user dot sf dot net

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:35:56AM -0800, JD Cole wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> >On 17-Nov-2002, JD Cole <jdcole at san dot rr dot com> wrote:
> >
> >| I have taken a 
> >| look at Andy Jocabson's octave-mpi modification (thanks JWE)...but would 
> >| like to take it a step further.
> >
> >In what way?
> >
> >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.
> >
> >jwe
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 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
> 
>