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From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-01 21:39:31


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



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