Re: [boost] [Boost-users] What's so cool about Boost.MPI?

MPI (which is not my library) is an *API* with a bunch of available implementations that offers *Message Passing*. That's just about movement of data, and the computation patterns aren't limited to those you can create with an imperative interface like RPC. Massively parallel computations tend to do well with a Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model, and MPI supports that paradigm very nicely.

Boost.MPI is a library that makes it much nicer to do MPI programming in C++.

Dave Abrahams

Thank you very much for that thorough explanation. -Sid