Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.MPI] question about serializing custom object

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.MPI] question about serializing custom object
From: Cristobal Navarro (axischire_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-26 14:32:56

the thing is that im using openMPI 1.4.2 and recently i added this
Boost::serialization library which is phenomenal.
i would like to keep like this, i mean try not to use Boost:MPI but still
use its serialize features.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Matthias Troyer <troyer_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> On 26 Aug 2010, at 20:13, Cristobal Navarro wrote:
>
> thanks for the quick response.
>
> i've never used Boost before, so need to understand some of its basics.
> but as soon as i get this working, ill will contribute my own case as an
> example for sure.
>
> no
>>
>> Feel free to contribute one.
>>
>> If I had nothing else to do, I would
>>
>> a) make a stream_buf which uses MPI
>> b) use binary_iarchive and binary_oarchive with this new stream_buf
>> c) open one program with binary_oarchive and the other with
>> binary_iarchive
>> d) do ar << on one end and ar >> at the other
>> e) stand back and let'er rip.
>>
>
> --> so this way it would be possible to mix plain MPi with Boost::Serialize
> right?
> thanks
>
>
> Change the "would" into "is": it is possible to mix Boost.MPI with
> Boost.Serialization. Any objext that can be serialized can be sent by
> Boost.MPI. This was actually the basic idea behind Boost.MPI, to use
> Boost.Serialization to pack and unpack MPI buffers, or to create custom MPI
> datatypes.
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
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