On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Sohail Somani wrote:

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:05:17 -0600, K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

Note that ASIO has no mechanism
to communicate across box (this is what MPI does), ASIO handles
asynchronous communication within a box.

Really? This is news to me... Has ASIO changed after inclusion into
Boost? I used it to implement a prototype distributed computing system...

Or maybe I misunderstand "within/across a box".

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.

-- Noel