Re: [Boost-users] PBGL vs (Parallel) BGL-VTK

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] PBGL vs (Parallel) BGL-VTK
From: Mathieu Malaterre (mathieu.malaterre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-18 05:44:27

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Randy Heiland <heiland_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Jeff Baumes wrote:
>
>>> Just out of curiosity what are the main differences in between PBGL
>>> and (Parallel) BGL-VTK ? What I am looking for is why not use PBGL
>>> directly ? What was the actual issue ?
>>
>> The goal of PBGL in VTK is to integrate PBGL with VTK's data
>> structures and pipeline model. It includes a wrapper around PBGL
>> algorithms to conveniently use them from VTK, along with extending
>> vtkGraph to be an implementation of PBGL concepts.
>>
>> Will/Randy may have more to say about it.
>>
>> Jeff
>
> Jeff has summarized nicely.  I'd only add that we've not wrapped all of the
> PBGL algs yet.

I see. I got confused by vtkPBGLDistributedGraphHelper. It's sole goal
it to provide another implementation of the Process Group Interface,
right ?

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu