Re: [Boost-users] [boost] What's so cool about Boost.MPI?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] What's so cool about Boost.MPI?
From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-22 02:30:50

At Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:25:38 -0500,
Brian Wood wrote:
> 
> David Abrahams:
>> At Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:26:04 +0200,
>> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> The semi-automatic, but very easy to maintain, way of
>>> creating/maintaining the MPI type maps (via Boost.Serialization),
>>> IIUC.
>> Which yields huge performance benefits and makes practical some
>> computations that might otherwise not be, due to resource constraints
> 
> I've been exploring this further here -
> http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=585405
> 
> Also, from what I can tell, MPI messages are composed of one
> data type or an array of one type.  

That is absolutely not true. The fact that you might think so is just a sign of how hard it is to understand how to send messages of more complex data types. This is where Boost.MPI comes in and makes it easy.

Matthias