It is my pleasure to announce that Boost.MPI has been accepted as a Boost library. Congratulations to Doug Gregor and Matthias Troyer on their excellent contribution to Boost! One particularly nice aspect of Boost.MPI is the way it leverages the Boost serialization library. So also thanks to the author of that library, Robert Ramey. Yeah generic programming and code reuse! I would also like to thank all of the people that took some time to review Boost.MPI and participate in the review discussion: Dean Michael Berris, Robert Ramey, David Abrahams, Geoffrey Irving, John Fletcher, John Phillips, and Noel Belcourt. During the review, several suggestions for improvement were made, which I recommend that the authors take action on as they prepare Boost.MPI to be included in Boost. 1. Named parameters in the interface 2. Revise introduction to focus more on describing what Boost.MPI is, and move info about how Boost.MPI is implemented to a later section. 3. Document the performance characteristics of functions, e.g., Create_vector. 4. A copy-edit pass over the docs to catch typos, etc. 5. Hooks for dispatching between the underlying MPI implementation vs. a Boost.MPI provided impl. Cheers, Jeremy __________________________________ Jeremy Siek <siek@cs.colorado.edu> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~siek/ Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Colorado at Boulder