From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Apr  1 14:08:35 2005
Subject: Re: Octave 3.0
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:02:05 -0600

John W. Eaton wrote:

>  * mpi interface for Octave (have contributed code, actually several
>    options at this point)
>  
>
I noticed that the latest Matlab service pack (released in the last few 
weeks) now includes a Distributed Computing Toolbox and Distributed 
Computing Engine (see http://www.mathworks.com/products/distribtb/). I 
haven't used any of the Octave MPI stuff, so I'm pretty ignorant about 
all this, but I just wondered whether it is feasible or worthwhile to 
try to be compatible with their way of doing things. In briefly looking 
over the function definitions, it appears that it would require support 
for objects.

-Quentin