MPI Concurrency library update?

Andrew andrew.spott at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 18:12:28 PDT 2012


On Saturday, 11 August 2012 at 00:24:40 UTC, dsimcha wrote:
> On Friday, 10 August 2012 at 23:40:43 UTC, Andrew Spott wrote:
>> A while ago, (August of last year I think), there was talk 
>> about
>> a MPI wrapper for D.  Has there been any update on that?
>
> I was considering writing one, but I wanted it to be high-level 
> and easy-to-use.  I ended up not doing it, initially because I 
> was waiting for serialization to be added to Phobos (which I 
> thought was imminent) and then because I got busy with 
> unrelated things.
>
> I think that a nice high-level MPI wrapper for D should be 
> tightly integrated into a serialization library to encapsulate 
> the low-level details of passing non-trivial data structures 
> across nodes.  I doubt I'll get around to implementing it when 
> serialization is added, though, because I'm probably past the 
> MPI-using stage of my life (my Ph.D. research is basically 
> finished, I'm just revising my dissertation and preparing to 
> defend) so I wouldn't get to eat my own dogfood.

Well, my PhD research is just beginning... :)

Any chance you could pass on what you have?  It might help me out
a bit, and reduce my workload toward creating a usable MPI
library.

Thanks.

-Andrew


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