[boost] [Review Request] Message Passing Interface (MPI) Library

From: Doug Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-28 23:01:31

I am requesting a formal review for a Boost library that provides modern C++
bindings for the Message Passing Interface (MPI).

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standard interface for message
passing in high-performance parallel applications. It defines a library
interface, available from C, Fortran, and C++, for which there are many MPI
implementations. Although there exist C++ bindings for MPI, they offer
little functionality over the C bindings. The Boost.MPI library provides an
alternative C++ interface to MPI that better supports modern C++ development
styles, including complete support for user-defined data types and C++
Standard Library types and using arbitrary function objects for collective
algorithms. Boost.MPI is built for efficiency, avoiding unnecessary overhead
and translating high-level operations into the most specialized MPI call
possible. Boost.MPI currently covers the majority of the MPI
1.1specification, including blocking and non-blocking point-to-point
communication, collective operations, communicators, MPI datatypes, and
environment management.

The library documentation is available in HTML and PDF:
  http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/boost.mpi/libs/parallel/doc/html/
  http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/boost.mpi/libs/parallel/doc/mpi.pdf

You can browse the library source code here:
  http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/boost.mpi/

Or download the source code and documentation as a tarball here:
  http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/boost.mpi/boost-mpi-20060628.tgz

The library is also available in the Boost Sandbox, in the subdirectories
boost/parallel and libs/parallel.

Note that you will need the latest Boost from CVS HEAD.

  Cheers,
  Doug Gregor