Re: [boost] [serialization] fast array serialization (10x speedup)

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-23 09:15:25

On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Jeff Flinn wrote:

> ...
>
>> As Dave mentioned earlier, this information can then used by the MPI
>> library (and network hardware) to directly serialize the data into
>> the I/O buffers of the network interconnect, without ever creating a
>> copy in memory, and automatically taking care of potential endianness
>> and format issues on heterogeneous networks.
>
> Do you have any recommendations for links discussing MPI? I just found
> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/ via Google. Is this the best starting
> point?

Besides your link I would recommend:

http://www.mpi-forum.org/ is the official standard web page

http://www.lam-mpi.org/ for one implementation (done by the Indiana  
group that also contributed many Boost libraries)

http://www.open-mpi.org/ for the latest efforts for an open-source  
high-performance MPI library

as well as any of the many books on MPI. Alternatively you could  
attend the short MPI course that I will teach on Friday in Zurich,  
Switzerland.

Matthias