From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Nov 21 09:42:12 2002
Subject: Re: Patching Octave-MPI
From: JD Cole <jdcole at san dot rr dot com>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>,    octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:52:28 -0800

Paul Kienzle wrote:

>There are a variety of approaches to parallelism which have been done
>in matlab m-files and mex-files.  E.g.,
>
>	http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~cly/survey.html
>
>I'm a little surprised that you would need to patch octave itself to
>do the same.
>
Yes, it is quite possible that and octave wrapper API for MPI could be 
implemented via .oct files (I am currently looking at this solution), 
and thank you for the interesting Matlab links.  My current effort is to 
bring Andy Jocabson's work (found at 
http://corto.icg.to.infn.it/andy/octave-mpi/) to the most recent version 
of octave. Not necessarily to integrate with the octave distribution, 
but to make it available to those who may want to use it. (This also 
gives me a chance to better understand the proper way to add 
functionality to octave in the future.)

Thanks,
  JD