Hi Robert, On 9/7/06, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
What is necessary to be able to test this on a windows machine. It's my understanding that there exist MPI(CH?) implementations which permit one to run programs like those in the tutorial without having and actual cluster at one's disposal. I would appreciate some background/pointers or whatever as to the best way of doing this.
IIRC, there is a Windows based version of LAM/MPI [1] which you can use. And yes, you're right that you don't need a "real life cluster" to run an MPI toolset/implementation.
I realize its not really on topic - but without something like this, the number of people that can effectively review this is very limited.
I agree, however like most of the previous reviews that I have looked at, two very important aspects that can be scrutinized without building the library is the design and interface/implementation. Reading the source code is one way, and reading the documentation is another. Granted that if you already have prior experience with an MPI implementation, you should be able to read through everything and understand that it's really a wrapper around the existing MPI implementations around. HTH! -- Dean Michael C. Berris C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. web: http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ email: dean@orangeandbronze.com mobile: +63 928 7291459 phone: +63 2 8943415 other: +1 408 4049532 blogs: http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com http://3w-agility.blogspot.com http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com