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

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-02 08:55:38

> > [...]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.

Regards Hartmut