It's a great idea; so great it's already (sort of) been done: see Parallel::MPI and Parallel::PVM at your local CPAN.
-Aaron On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think this is one of the best ideas since Inline::C. It would make > prototyping distributed applications far easier. However, I don't know > exactly how this would be integrated into the Inline package. It seems > to me that a separate Perl package/API would make more sense. > > Best regards, > -Jason > > > 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 > > > -- Aaron J Mackey Pearson Laboratory University of Virginia (434) 924-2821 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
