On 28 Jul 2009, at 15:46, OvermindDL1 wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:45 AM, OvermindDL1<overminddl1@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, I have never used an MPI system, but from quick perusing of what MPI based systems look like, why does Boost.MPI create a full MPI system instead of just create a glue on top of it? Especially since all the MPI system I see seem to cost a rather ridiculous amounts of money? I am probably missing something about the MPI standard though, but I do not see what from a quick reading that would warrant such costs I see.
why doesn't Boost.MPI create a full MPI*
openMPI ( http://www.open-mpi.org/ ) is free, packaged by default on Mac OS X, and a quick wc count is about 2M lines of source. Reimplementing that would be a lot of work, although it might be easy to do on top of asio. Chris