Re: [Boost-users] boost.MPI for a scheduler design

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost.MPI for a scheduler design
From: joel falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-30 02:29:05

Jack Bryan wrote:
>
> (1) My cluster has been installed with Open MPI, if I install 
> boost.MPI on it, is there some conflict ? 
>      boost.MPI provides all functions of OpenMPI ?
Boost.MPI is a C++ binding to w/e MPI runtime and library you may have. 
It does NOT reimpelment MPI.
> (2)  Does boost.MPI support Rhapsodia.Scheduler to do the task 
> scheduling. ?
No scheduling are done in MPI nor Boost.MPI, you have to handle that 
yourself
> (3) I need to parallelize an algorithm so that a big problem is 
> decomposed into small tasks, which can be distributed 
>      to other nodes by the Rhapsodia.Scheduler and after being solved, 
> the results of these tasks are returned to the node
>     with the Rhapsodia.Scheduler, which will distribute more tasks on 
> the base of the collected results.  
>     Does boost.MPI support this ? 
Boost.MPI  support MPI v2 standard, no more than that.