Just a thought I've brought up once or twice elsewhere. I don't expect this would work out of the box (hell, I personally wouldn't even know where to begin trying), but something I'd love to see.
Could the MPICH library (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/, others?) be made useful to Perl using Inline. This would be relevant to C and (someday?) FORTRAN. If it was possible to write Perl code (or even hairier, perl code using PDL), that could make full use of parallel processing and message passing, it could be a BIG (_BIG_) win. Particularly in my field of bioinformatics, and probably academics. I know of no real explorations into this as yet, and unfortunately don't have the time to learn and play with developing this myself right now. But I eagerly await news... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean P. Quinlan http://people.ne.mediaone.net/squinlan/index.html mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation" - Plato
