Re: [Boost-users] Does MPI use ASIO?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-02 09:08:16

Hartmut Kaiser wrote:

>> > [...]Oh, I'm probably wrong.  I understood ASIO to provide
>> asychronous IO
>> > but now that I look more closely at the documentation, I see this.
>> >
>> > Portable networking, including sockets, timers, hostname
>> resolution
>> > and socket iostreams.
>> >
>> > So it appears you could implement MPI on top of ASIO.  My bad.
>> 
>> I don't know MPI but indeed Boost.Asio is extensible: You can create
>> services and add them to the core I/O service object in Boost.Asio.
>> There
>> is not really a step-by-step tutorial how to do this but with some
>> trial
>> and error and looking at existing source code (in Boost.Asio and
>> examples)
>> it works. In fact it would be nice if these services are collected
>> somewhere (but then again I don't kow if there are so many services
>> developed anyway).
> 
> I'ld rather like to see Asio implemented on top of MPI.

How would that be? It seems that Asio is more low-level and generic and MPI,
so implementing Asio on top of MPI is not possible.

- Volodya