+1, I was looking at using them together just in this past week. but no bandwidth to work on myself.
2011/12/1 Mahadev Konar <maha...@hortonworks.com> > Ralph, > I think there is a lot of interest in MPI over Hadoop. If you are > counting votes here's my +1. > > mahadev > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I'm a lead developer on the Open MPI project, and recently joined the > Hadoop community to help with Hamster. A couple of people have asked me > about using MPI more generally inside MapReduce, and it does indeed seem a > good candidate to use that method of communication. > > > > It seems to me, though, that a pre-requisite for moving that direction > is a good set of Java MPI bindings. I've checked with the MPI community, > and while there have been a couple of attempts at this, nothing really > "adopted" by the community has been done. > > > > I have some spare time while I search for a new job, so I thought I > might tackle this over the next few weeks. However, I thought I would > assess the actual level of interest before investing the time - it isn't a > trivial thing to do, but doable if there is interest. > > > > Thanks > > Ralph > > >
