Re: [boost] [Review][MPI] Boost.MPI review begins

From: Jeremy Siek (jeremy.siek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-17 01:15:03

Hi All,

The Boost.MPI review is drawing to a close. If you haven't
had a chance to look at it yet, please do so in the next
day or two.

Cheers,
Jeremy

On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Jeremy Graham Siek wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The view of the Boost.MPI (for Message Passing Interface) begins
> today, Sept. 6 and continues through Sept. 15.
>
> Description:
>
> 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, arbitrary function objects
> for
> colective algorithms, and the use of modern C++ library techniques to
> maintain maximal efficiency. As an example, one can concatenate the
> std::strings stored on each processor with a single reduce call and
> the function object std::plus<std::string>. However, if the call to
> reduce is merely computing the sum of integers, the implementation
> transforms into the appropriate call to MPI_Reduce. For more  
> information
> about the design of Boost.MPI, see our design philosophy.
>
> The review tarball is here:
>
>      http://www.generic-programming.org/~dgregor/boost.mpi/boost-
> mpi-20060906.tgz
>
> Online documentation is available here:
>
>      http://www.generic-programming.org/~dgregor/boost.mpi/libs/
> parallel/doc/html/
>
> PDF documentation is available here:
>
>      http://www.generic-programming.org/~dgregor/boost.mpi/mpi.pdf
>
>
> Review questions
> ================
>
> Please always explicitly state in your review, whether you think the
> library should be accepted into Boost.
>
> You might want to comment on the following questions:
>
> - What is your evaluation of the design?
> - What is your evaluation of the implementation?
> - What is your evaluation of the documentation?
> - What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
> - Did you try to use the library? With what compiler?
>    Did you have any problems?
> - How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A
>    quick reading? In-depth study?
> - Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
> __________________________________
> Jeremy Siek <siek_at_[hidden]>
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Colorado at Boulder
>
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Jeremy Siek <siek_at_[hidden]>
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder