Re: [Boost-users] [mpi] Any plan for mpi2 IO support ?

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-06 09:05:28

On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Alain Miniussi wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:37:50 +0200, Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden] 
> > wrote:
>
>> Alain Miniussi <alain.miniussi <at> oca.eu> writes:
>>> I have a code based on MPI uising MPI2 IO to read/writte its data  
>>> on disk
>>> (all mpi procces perform concurrent read/writte on the same file).
>>> Boost::mpi does not seems to include whose functionnalities  
>>> (parralllel IO,
>>> views, async ios, basically the stuff described in
>>> http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-20-html/node171.htm#Node171
>>> ).
>>> Is there a plan to support that in the near future ? I had
>>> a looks a boost serialization libraries but they do not
>>> seems provide whose functionnalities (or did I missed something ?).
>>
>> Right now, we don't have any plans to provide MPI-2 I/O support in  
>> Boost.MPI.
>
> Thank for your answer.
> Can you tell if it is by lack of resources or is it just that
> you think there are better alternatives ? (something I missed in
> boost serialization library ?)

It is because a lack of time, and because the people who financed the  
development of Boost.MPI only needed MPI1.

Matthias