Hartmut Kaiser [hartmut.kaiser@gmail.com] wrote:
What I meant is to implement Asio on top of the (highly efficient) MPI transport layer. Asio currently supports the IP protocol only, where MPI gives you access to a whole bunch of different network implementations (Myrinet etc.). Do I misunderstand something?
Regards Hartmut
ASIO provides low-level access to the network. You can implement any TCP/IP or UDP/IP protocol using ASIO. You could, for example, write a web browser or ftp client that uses ASIO for its network communications. In fact, I seem to recall a library that does exactly that. MPI is a protocol. Specifically, it provides message passing for distributed computing. Because of MPI's structure, it is not possible to implement an arbitrary protocol like HTTP or FTP using MPI.