On 11/21/2011 12:28 PM, Avi Bahra wrote:

I am learning MPI, and have a few questions whether its worth using boost MPI, since I need to run on many flavours of unix.(linux clusters and AIX as a minimum)

o In the boost MPI documentation it appears that many MPI functions are not supported (MPI_Bsend,etc). If I need this capability then does this mean I should not use boost MPI ? (or is there still a back door way of calling with the C API instead ? )

o Has any one managed to use boost MPI on Super-computers like: - IBM/AIX. - Fujitsu - NEC Since we need to be able swap vendors.

Any help appreciated.

Ta, Avi

I have built and used Boost.MPI successfully on IBM AIX 5.3 / xlC 10.1 (Power5+ architecture) using the following in my project-config.jam file: using mpi : /usr/bin/mpCC : <include>/usr/lpp/ppe.poe/include <include>/opt/rsct/lapi/include <library-path>/usr/lpp/ppe.poe/lib <library-path>/usr/lpp/ppe.poe/lib/threads <find-shared-library>mpi_r <find-shared-library>vtd_r <find-shared-library>lapi_r <find-shared-library>pthreads : /usr/bin/mpiexec ;